AWAITING SHIPMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 7, 8 July 1944, Page 10

AWAITING SHIPMENT

GOLD NIB FOR DOMINION

' Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co.. i Ltd., advise that they have purchased !in England on behalf of the Alton Lodge Stud, Te Kauwhata, the five-year-old horse Gold Nib, and he is now awaiting shipment to the Dominion. He claims breeding of the highest merit, for he is by Dastur, an Irish classic winner who was second in all three of the English classics. Gold Nib is the second foal of his dam, and was her second winner. This mare, Gold Race, is by Phalaris's son, Colorado, who defeated Coronach for the Two Thousand Guineas and won £30,363 in stakes, but unfortunately died after only two seasons at the stud.

The second dam, Cresta Run, was a brilliant two-year-old winner, and went on to win the One Thousand Guineas from Booklaw toy two lengths, and, ■ all told, won £ 14,540 in stakes. (She is a half-sister by Hurry On to the New Zealand champion sire, Foxbridge, the next dam being Bridgemount, by Bridge of Earn from Mountain Mint, by Carbine's Derby-win-ning son Spearmint, and from Adula ( isister to that great race mare Pretty Polly, the Oaks and St. Leger winner, etc.

Apart from his classic breeding, Gold Nib has great credentials as a . racehorse. He was a brilliant two-year-old, even then distinguished among those of his age for his outstanding physique. As a three-year-old he was one of the best of his year, and he showed his staying qualities the following year in beating horses of the highest calibre." Gold Nib won twice and was five times placed as a two-year-old, and was only three times out of a place in ten starts as a three-year-old, including third in- the Two Thousand Guineas to Big Game and Watling Street. At four years he won the Salisbury Stakes, one mile and a quarter, beating Ujiji.

Three Sucdesses. —It is interesting to note that progeny of Silverado (who did so well in the Dominion) are still winning races in Australia, even though these nave been around the small gatherings. The latest issue of the Australian Racing Calendar shows that Bellardo, an aged gelding by Silverado, took the sprint race each day at the Mendooran Members' Race Meeting in April. A week later he scored at the Wellington Combined Racing Club's Meeting. The stakemoney was very modest, those three firsts aggregating only £37.

In the News. —It is some time since the New Zealand-bred Nightbeam, for whom the Australian sportsman Mr. F. W. Hughes paid 2000 guineas, has figured as a winner across the Tasman, but the Night Haid gelding won two good races last month, the Brighton Handicap, 1 mile, at Moorefield, and the Ashbury Handicap, 9 furlongs, at Canterbury Park.

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