AUSTRALIAN TURF REVIEW

Southland Times, Issue 24625, 23 December 1941, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TURF REVIEW

YARALLA MAKES GOOD By SIR MODRED A top-priced yearling last season, a brilliant two-year-old racehorse, and a serious disappointment in the spring, Yaralla during the past fortnight has won two good races in Sydney. He cost 1200 guineas as a yearling and it was expected that he would be a Derby winner judged on his brilliant form as a youngster. Last month he disclosed improved training track form and on Saturday he won the Villiers Stakes Handicap of £l3OO (lm) carrying the tough burden of 8.3. He is a son of the Queensland sire The Buzzard. Betting and other taxation associated with racing make a contribution of nearly £400,000 a year to the State revenue in Victoria, and most of that money is diverted to charities. Melbourne racing clubs also contribute large sums directly to war funds. Blue Valley, a two-year-old colt racing in Melbourne, is expected to furnish into a solid stayer. Already an impressive winner he is by Manitoba

from Tanrica, a grand-daughter of the famous mare Chelandry. Mi’ W. T. Hazlett has bred promising youngsters in Victoria by Manitoba from mares of the Chelandry strain, one of the number being Makarewa, a smart colt from Yilderim, a descendant of the Chelandry mare Simper. Since the war the Victoria Racing Club has contributed well on the way to £30,000 to the war funds. A fortnight ago the Victoria Amateur Turf Club donated £lO,OOO to the funds. For more than a year the V.A.T.C. course at Caulfield has been in occupation by the military authorities and closed for racing, but not for training activities. During slightly over two months since two-year-olds began racing in Sydney young sires have been very successful, a fact which will lend interest to the yearling sales early in 1942. Three of the new sires are The Marne, by Heroic; Hua, by Heroic, and j Oro. Of three winners credited to The Marne two of the number, Mardevon and Marquesan, are colts claiming New Zealand-bred grand-dams by Martian. The former’s grand-dam was the stout little mare Bee, winner of the Wellington Cup of 1916 and afterwards successful in Australia. The third winner by The Marne was the filly Easy Mark, whose grand-dam, Caricature, was by Absurd. The New Zealand progeny of Absurd ranked as brilliant speedsters, and his female line are producing sprinters and stayers.