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'T’O Stand the "Season at Commercial Stables, Hawera, and Travel where sufficient inducement offers— Tlie Blood Stallion SANDSTAR (18) By Sands of the Orient from Mary Heaton. SAiNHSTAit, foaled 1921, is a bay Ijorse standing 16.2 high and is of a beautiful temper and constitution. No thoroughbred seen south of the line has, or had, a stouter strain of blood than Sandstar. His grandstre on the male side is Goc-k Sand, and on the dam's side • Bright Steel. His groat grandsires wore “Sanfoin” and Henry of Navarro” (sires side), and St. Simon and Pcsitano (dam’s side). Those are names to conjure with and columns could be written of the performances of the progeny of the great sires named. SANDSTAR, during his short stay on the turf, was a successful performer, also his sire, Sands of The Orient, and his grandsire, Rock Sand, who won the Derby and St. Leger and Two Thousand Guineas in England. Sandstar broke , his fetlock and only raced on. ten ( occasions, twice as a two-year-old, being unplaced, eight times as a threc-year-old, being placed on every occasion, winning five, also once second and twice third. The races ho won included: Kensington Handicap, Whangarei, 6 furlongs; Normanby Plate, Auckland, of 400 sove, 1 mile; Christmas Handicap, Auckland, of 600 sovs, 1 mile; Stewards’ Handicap. Auckland, 600 sovs, 6 furlongs; Autumn Handicap, Avondale, 600 sovs, 9 furlongs; second I to Surveyor at Taka puna in the Bor- < ougli Handicap, 7 furlongs; third at Takapuna in the Ngataringa Welter, 7 furlongs; being beaten by Spoony and Raceful; third at To Aroiia in the Hot Springs Handicap, beaten by Regent and Steel Bar. Sandstar and Blsogne are No. 18 sires, St. Evelyn being the granddam of Bisogne and the greatgranddam of Sandstar. Sandstar's first j I foals aro now yearlings, and they point j | to him becoming a great sire, and sure foal-get,ter. | TERMS: Single Mares, 25 guineas;, two or more inarcs, as arranged, j Fees payable ou Ist January, 1929., Mares from a distance met at Hawera Railway Station. Good paddocking at 6/- per week. All care, but no respon libilily. For cards and further particulars J. BRYANT, Commercial Stables, Hawera.