HAUGHTY MAY BE MATED WITH GOLD BAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 April 1947, Page 5

HAUGHTY MAY BE MATED WITH GOLD BAR

Haughty, 1.59 3-5, will be mated with Gold Bar, 1.59 3-5, at the close of her racing career. This is the most important stud announcement of modern times, concerning as it does the fastest pacing stallion and the fastest pacing mare in the Dominion. Their union will also be unique in that no other mating of two-minute horses has yet occurred outside of America. .

Gold Bar' and Haughty are high up in the” list of big stake-winners, Gold Bar’s total now exceeding £12,000, and Haughty’s £ll,OOO. It is interesting to note that neither of these two champions has a vestige of Peter the Greht or Axworthy blood. Gold Bar is by Grattan Loyal from Imperial Gold, a mare combining the strains of Rey de Oro, Logan Pointer and Prince Imperial, and Haughty is by Nelson Derby from Regal Voyage, by Happy Voyage from Logan Princess, a product of the tried and proved strains of Logan Pointer and Prince Imperial.

It will be observed that there would be a doubling-up of the Logan Pointer and Prince Imperial blood in any produce that may result from a mating of Gold Bar and Haughty. Bofyby Levis Was. Owe Of Australia’s Best Jockeys Racegoers throughout Australia were distressed at the death this month of Robert (Bobby) Lewis, one of the greatest jockeys in Australian racing history. Aged 68 years, ho died at his Glenroy (Victoria) home after a long illness. Bobby Lewis won four Melbourne Cups, a record never equalled, and almost every other important race in the Commonwealth racing calendar. He was at his best in Derbies and weight-for-age events. He rode eight winners of the Victoria Derby, eight also of the V.R.C. St. Leger Stakes, seven of the V.R.C. Oaks Stakes and seven of the S.A.J.C. Derby. Born at Clunes (Victoria) on November 30, 1878, Lewis won his first race, with his first mount at a picnic meeting in the town on Boxing Day, 1892. He retained active association with the Australian turf until he retired in 1938. Lewis gave all the credit for his knowledge of riding to his mother, whom he described before his death as a grand horsewoman. After his retirement in 1938 he kept close touch with the sport and never missed a metropolitan meeting, but he would never bet. .International Race May Be Run In November The first actual bid from an. American racing body to attract foreign champions in a major international event appears likely to come from the . Empire City Racing Association, which intends staging the weight-for-age Gold Cup, with about £25,000 added, for three-year-olds and upwards, over 13 furlongs, states the Horse and Hound in a recent edition. “Although air transport of bloodstock has made such rapid strides since the war, there is as yet no apparent move towards co-operative ■international planning of big race fixtures —or at least a series of international contests,” states the writer, who goes .on to suggest that an exchange of views within international circles on those lines might well be a matter of consideration in. the not too distant future. • Apparently Mr James Butler, president of the Empire City -Racing Association, plans to visit England, France, and Eire at the end of this month to discuss the details of the rate with leading racing officials in those countries, ' and the exact con-

ditions will not be decided until his return.' However, it is likely that the race may be run. early in November. ' . ■