TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22285, 11 June 1934, Page 11

TROTTING NOTES

By Sen tin Ei-

Trainers are allowed ,to use the grass track at New Brighton on a payment ot 5s per horse. . . Moana Tama, the winner of the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, was got by Nelson Derby from Thelma; Wrack, by vVrack from Joy ■ Bells, by Cathedial Chimes —Marie Lloyd, 1 .by Petereta Marie-Corelli, by. Wildwood-Thelma, by Kentucky—Pride, of Lincoln, by iouclistone— Sally. Thelma has been a great taproot. - She produced Willowwood, Wildwood Junior, Marie Corelli, _ Authoress (dam of Author Dillon), Adonis, Lady Sybil,. Cameos (dam of Onyx), and Waver.ley, amongst her _ foals. Moana Tama comes- from a mare inbred to 1 eter the Great through Wrack and Petereta. Touchstone was a bay. horse got in England by Touchstone from Quebec,_ by Gladiator. -The great sire Musket is a descendant of Touchstone, whose linesdias bred on, to the present day through Carbine and Spearmint, Touchstone sired three Derby winners in Cotherstdne, Orlando, and Surplice, and; after about a century:his line is still successful through Musket; and Hampton. Through Peter the Great and Petereta the Sapling Stakes winner traces , back to. thoroughbreds iu the shape of Denmark, Margrave, Bellfounder, and others. In the tabulated pedigree of Petereta, in referring to him in comment concerting the - strains, it is said, “and the very best thoroughbred strains, so that Petereta’s , house does not rest on a foundation of sand. Subsidy, who acted as runner-up in the Sapling Stakes,, was got by Rey de Oro from Lady Brent, ;by Brent Locanda—Lady John, by Advance..a son of Prince Imperial and Rbse,‘whose granddam Was got by the thoroughbred hors? Quicksilver. P r >’ ic ® Imperial was got by Habletonian Bell Boy from . Princess, a granddaughter of Traducer in tail male from a mare by the thoroughbred Prickwillow. Ironside, who filled third place, was got by Wrack from Gatwick, by Logan Pointer from 1 recisipn, by St. Swithin from .the thoroughbred mare Kildasa, a daughter of Idas, who won the Great -Northern’ Foal Stakes and Auckland Welcome Stakes, so that he traces back to a; source of early speed.