THE DEBUTANT STAKES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23599, 8 September 1938, Page 16

THE DEBUTANT STAKES

LAST OF THE LIMONDS For this year’s Debutant Stakes at Wanganui on Saturday an entry of 20 was received, which is about the average, and there promises to be a dozen or more acceptors. Among the list are several with breeding of the highest quality, including the last offspring of Limond and a number of Beau Fere’s second crop. One of the two Limonds in the field is Submission, who will carry the colours of her breeder, Mr G. M Currie. She is a brown daughter of the Absurd—Eulogy mare Homage, hence she is a full-sister to Honour (New Zealand Derby), Episode and Courtcraft, and a half-sister to Heritage and Homily, who are by Posterity. There is no better-bred youngster in the land, and Mr Currie did not offer her at the January sales. Mr Currie has another representative in the field in Portal, who is a chestnut gelding by Pombal from the English-bred Boscombe—Mirabelle II mare Solange, a half-sister to Theo, winner of the A.J.C. and V.R.C Derbies. Solange’s only offspring yet to have raced is Aladdin, who was winner of several races in Australia last season. The other Limond in Saturday s field is Varimond, a bay daughter of the Pombal-Motley mare Variable, who never raced but is a well-bred three-quarter-sister to Variant, Moquette. A 1 Jolson and Midinette. Variable is another of famous Eulogy’s descendants and her mating with Limond is an interesting experiment, as her own sire (Pombal)) is a half-brother to Limond. At the ’January sales Varimond was secured for 190 guineas by Mr A F, M. Symes, of Hastings, who has leased her to Mr M. Millar, of Palmerston North. Mr Symes’s own colours will be carried on Saturday by Tableaux, whom he bred. Tableaux is a bay filly by Beau Pere out of the Leighton—Valvate mare Painted Screen, hence she is a half-sister to Movie Star (A.J.C Breeders’ Plate), Hunting Scene, Screen Star and Screen Lord. Screen Lord ran a fair race in the Debutant Stakes last year, but did not subse quently improve into a winner and he was set aside in the early summer. Another horse in the field in whom Mr Symes has an interest is Endorsement, whom he bousht for 160 guineas at the January sales and a fortnight ago leased to the Hastings trainer L. D. Berry. Endorsement is a chestnut filly by Iliad from the Paper MoneyEpitaph mare Endorse, hence she is a half-sister to Bon Tray and Accomplice. Epitaph, a daughter of Eulogy, was the best two-year-old of her year. If Varimond, Tableaux and Endorse ment all start on Saturday they will form a bracket, as also will Submission and Portal. GREAT MARES GLENTRUIN AND VALICARE Few racegoers who remember them will question an assertion that Australia and New Zealand have known no more brilliant mares since the war than imported Glentruin and the locally-bred Valicare. but there Is a definite divergence of opinion as to the relative merit of those two scorchers of the grass (writes a contributor to the Sydney Referee) Though Valicare was out in 1925-26-27 and Glentruin was not retired from the turf until she became a 10-year-old for 1926-27 racing, the pair never met and as all Glentruin’s starts, with one exception were on New Zealand tracks, and Valicare’s racing was confined to Sydney and Melbourne there is not much data to work on for purposes of comparison. It was as a three-year-old that Valicare first carried silk and she came through the season with an unblemished recox-d of seven firsts races to fall to her being the Warwick Farm Stakes, the A.J.C. Flying Handicap, the Carrington Stakes the Adrian Knox Stakes, the Rawson Stakes, the Doncaster Handicap and the All-aged Stakes. As a four-year-old she was not nearly so successful, wins in the Rosehill Stakes and the V.R.C C M Lloyd Stakes being the only ones achieved from 11 attempts. Her record as a five-year-old consists of but one unplaced outing. and when she left the glamour of the courses to take up stud duty she had competed 18 times for nine firsts, three seconds, and two thirds. Glenti-uin had a much more trying time. So far over was she at the knees that a deformity was often suspected That she figured in 46 events for 20 firsts, 11 seconds, and 6 thirds, however, is definite proof that if any limb weakness existed it was not at all serious. The sole Australian race con-

tested by Glentruin was the Warwick Stakes of 1924, and the manner m which she accounted for the opposition made it easy to understand how she had come to give the mighty Gloaming a couple of hard races in the Dominion. Valicare was a fine-looking mare, and Glentruin would have passed muster in any company but for her rather unsightly forelegs. Though G. Price figured as the trainer of Glentruin in Sydney, credit for her fitness a* Warwick Farm went to F. D. Jones, who had brought the white-flecked chestnut across the Tasman, but a change of stables had to be made as s result of his falling foul of the stewards over (he running of Royal Despatch, another of his charges on that particular trip. RACING IN ENGLAND THE CHAMPAGNE STAKES (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyrighti LONDON. Sept. 6. The principal race on the opening day of the Doncaster September meeting was the Champagne Stakes, for two-year-olds, six furlongs, which resulted:— PANORAMA, ch c by Sir CosmoHappy Climax. 9.0 1 APPLE RING .. 2 TITAN 3 Seven started. Won by a head; two lengths between second and third.