IMPRESSIVE WIN BY IMPORTED HORSE AT LEVIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 7

IMPRESSIVE WIN BY IMPORTED HORSE AT LEVIN

Sun Burn, who won the Highweight Handicap, at Levin, is a chestnut horse by Sol Oriens from Good Abbess and was imported from England,with his dam by Mr T. C. Lowry. . , His sire is a son of Hyperion ana won the Irish Derby and Waterford Stakes and was second m the Irish St Leger. Good Abbess is by Robin Goodfellow, but she was foaled in England. She is a half-sister to th? Ebor Handicap winner Weathervane (not the Weathervane imported to New Zealand), and comes from the same family as Four Course, wmnei of the Gimcrack Stakes and One Tl si'n a B d ur? Ui "i a s' bavtag.. his first start since he joined the stable of Mrs L. Campbell and J. ( H. Jeffeid, and after meeting with interference hal. way through the race he made a fine recovery and ran on solidly to win He is engaged in the County Handicap at Greenmeadows tomorrow.

Another By Royal Chief T v anouil Gold, who opened her account "when she won a division of the Hokio Hack Handicap at Levin on Saturday, is a three-year-old filly hv Royal Chief from Lady Sincere. She is raced by Mr A. T. S. Coxon and is trained, at Cartel ton by F. Gotwh. further winner by Royal Chief improves the remarkable percentage of winners this voung sire has gained from the relatively small number of his progeny racing. Oaks Candidate . As the result of her winning form over one mile and a quarter m the Champion Hack Handicap at Levin on Saturday, Waimanu is to be given her chance in the New Zealand Oaks to be run at Riccarton this month and she may also be started in the Derby. Waimanu did no racing as a iso-year-old and opened her career as recently as the Marton meeting on September 20. Her four starts prior to Levin produced a third fourths so her winning exploit on Saturday was not a surprise, w aimanu is a medium-sized bay Inly by Lang Bian from Waicourt was bred at Waipawa Dy Mr M. V.Jdog gan and was purchased at the nauona sales in 1946 for 425 guineas by Messrs T. J. and P. A. O’Neill, Wanganui, for whom she is being’ trained by H. Dulieu. There have_ been no •outstanding horses in Waicourt s family in recent years, but earlier winners to distinguish themselves were Nystad, twice winner of the Great Easter Handicap, Nyland, whose 13 wins included the Winter Cup, and Paraform, who won the North Island Challenge Stakes. .