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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 310, 28 November 1936, Page 6

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WILD CHASE NOT FOR AUCKLAND. (By “Moturoa.”) Sir Charles Clifford will not bo sending the New Zealand Derby winner W ild Chase and the Stewards’ winner Paper Slipper to the Auckland summer ■ meeting, his trainers, H. and C. Cutts, advising against the immediate racing of thorC two Paper Money colts, who arc troubled with unsound knees! In the Great Northern Dorl>> Sir Charles will be represented by Trench Fight, who was runner-up to his stable-mate in the classic at Riccarton. Needs Plenty of Room. A big course like Woodvillc should suit the High Art inarc Ingenuity, who ran a fine race into second place behind Fssex la6t. Saturday. Trainer G. W. New lum this marc carrying more condition than at any other time during her racing career and she seems to be working with more ficcdom than was the ease when she was at Ilawcra. Best Not Yet Seen. In Dungarvan and Martara Awapuni has two gallopers of exceptional merit, but it would occasion the writer little surprise if the Lord Quex gelding Corroboree did not eventually prove to be one of the best horses trained at headquarters in recent years. Corroboree is a natural stayer, a beautifully-actioned and clean-winded four-year-old of whom nothing like _liis best lias yet been seen. Trainer L. Wilson lias built him up wonderfully well in the past few months, and the big fellow lias grown out of the awkward ugly-duckling stage into one of the most handsome horses in training hl?re. Ho will race at Feilding on Monday and probably will be at Woodvillc next month, hut something like the real Corroboree should bo seen through the summer months, and it would not surprise if his connections have already cast envious eyes ' on this year’s £IOOO \\ cllington Cup. The National Sales. The closing of entries for the National Yearling Sales, to bo held at Trentham on January 21, indicates that the catalogue will be one of the largest and most representative yet submitted. The sires to be represented include Limond, Posterity, Pombal, Nightinarch, Robespierre, Rabbi, Tidal, Lord Warden, Night Raid, Iliad, Martarma, Siegfried, Beau Pere, Hunting Song. Laeldiam. C'ai>e Horn, Philamor. Raceful, Heroic, Gainseourt, Colossus, Lore! Quex, Tractor, Pink Coat, Bambury, Colonel Cygnus, Ilcfoe, Black Ronald, llaniloll, and Vaals. These lots include the last of the Limonds and mark the fact that the last of Chief Ruler’s yearling stock went under the hammer last January. Why Wotan? Many racegoers are probably unaware of the origin of the name Wotan, now lirmly implanted in racing history as a Melbourne Cup winner, but actually the four-year-old son of Siegfried and Left is one of the most appropriately named horses in New Zealand. The Siegfried Line was the main system of German defence on the Western front after the first battle of the Somme, and was called by the British the Hindenburg Line. From Queant northwards to Drocourt a reserve, or switch line, known as the Wotan Line, was hinged on. The fact that the Wotan Line sprang from the Siegfried Line, and was on the Germans’ left, explains the name, and no neater attempt at racehorse nomenclature could be wished for.