BEAU CAVALIER WANTED.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 217, 27 August 1927, Page 2

BEAU CAVALIER WANTED.

FOR LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL. According to an Auckland message appearing in yesterday’s “Dominion” enquiries have been made from Syd noy as to the price at which the Chesterfield gelding Beau Cavalier, this year's winner of the Great Northern. Wellington and Grand National Steeplechases, con'd be bought, and that, the price placed upon him by his present owner, Mr A. G. Quartlev, was 400 Eiiinens So far, however, no actual deal would seem to have been arranged. The would-be buyer is said to be Sir Anthony Hordern, who had a pleasnut experience in a previous New Zealand purchase in Pilliewinkie, who raced very successfully for him Sir Anthony is a man with “money to burn.’’ so that if he ha s reallv

set his heart upon the Auckland cross-country horse a good stiff price will not 4op him, especially as it is stated that, like Mr Quartley himself, he has some designs on the English Grand National. Whether Beau Cavalier is of the class to give him a chance in that the greatest and stiffest cross-country event of the world can scarcely be yet said to have been proved, but Sir Anthony is in the fortunate position to be able without anxiety to take a bit of risk on that score, with the possibility in view of being the first Australian owner to win the crosscountry ‘‘blue ribbon-”

Should Sir Anthony Hordern’s suggested enterprise eventually mature into a success at Aintree it will not, of course, be the first time that a Maori land-bred horse has won there. Mr. S: H. Gollan took Moifaa, a great jumper, bred in H.B. and raced hero by the late Mrs Ellingham. to England in the early days of the present century, and in 1904 he won the Grand National in a field of 26.

Australia had a representative in the Liverpool Nationa 1 of 1915, the Sir Simon gelding Bullawarra, who had carried 12.11 to victory in the Australian Steeplechase of 1913 Bullawarra was a magnificent fencer, but be did not adapt himself readily to English conditions. Instead of going through the tops of the tall natural hedges, as the local horses did. ho tried to clear them, as he would a post a n d rail obstacle. The consequence was that he lost ground, and finally fell.