RETIRED TO STUD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 12

RETIRED TO STUD

BRAW LASS A GOOD WINNER

(By "Ariki Toa.")

The well-performed Braw Lass, who has proved herself one of the best pacers in her class, is being retired to the stud.; As a two-year-old she finished a close second to Special Edition in the New Zealand Futurity Stakes, and subsequently developed into a good winner over all distances. She is a daughter of Wrack and Fanny Huon, by Denver Huon from Gold Leaf, «by Coolgardie. Braw Lass will be mated with. Josedale Dictator.

Well Bred.—To the average light-har-ness enthusiast Suspense is just another daughter-of Early Harvester, but it is interesting to note that actually her dam is a daughter of Reta Peter, who proved equal to winning two New Zealand Trotting Cups and was generally recognised as one of the greatest trotters ever bred in the Dominion. Suspense may be no champion, but she is at least useful, although it is possible her days on the race track are numbered, for she may shortly be retired to the stud.

Should Soon Make Amends. —There was probably no more unlucky pacer to.suffer defeat at Addington recently than Bexley's. Pride in the New Zealand Derby, for a bad break through interference cost her fully 60yds inside the first couple of furlongs. As it was she recovered the ground by sprinting m the middle stages, but it was apparent at the home turn that the task was beyond her and she had to be content with fourth money. Her effort was highly promising, and she should take a power of beating in the Great Northern Derby. Driver Recovered.— The leading trotting trainer and driver, F. J. Smith who was injured when Bluestock fell m the Waikato Handicap at Claudelands last Saturday, was well enough to leave hospital on Tuesday and is now recovering at his home in Takanini. It transpires that his jaw was dislocated, and not fractured as was first reported.

Auckland Purchases.— Among the recent purchases of southern horses by Auckland sportsmen are Thumbs Up Erin's Country, Oxford Scholar, and Ann Scott. Both Thumbs Up and Oxford Scholar were secured by Mr-. E. E.. Cressey, and Erin's Country and Ann Scott by Mr. J. R. Henderson. The first-named three have shown plenty of ability in the south, and it