INSCRUTABLE AS A HURDLER

Southland Times, Issue 25642, 9 April 1945, Page 3

INSCRUTABLE AS A HURDLER

Irish Lancer To Be Sold

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HAMPTON

Acceptances for the Southland Racing Club’s winter meeting on Saturday close at 5 p.m. tomorrow. Change of Quarters , , . j Sister Sal will, in future be framed by C. C. McCarthy at Riccarton.

For Australia The Great Autumn winner, First In, will be raced in Australia in the spring. Well-Grown Yearling A newcomer to T. E. Pankhursts team is a well-grown yearling colt by Salmagundi from Mei Tui, the dam of Spearthrust and Dark Colleen. South Canterbury Meeting Nominations for the South Canterbury autumn meeting on April 28 close on Monday, April 16. The Timaru Cup, to be run over 11 furlongs, is worth £5OO.

Siegfried’s Double . The Otautau sire Siegfried scored a notable double last week when two of his stock, Immediate and First In, won the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps respectively. Dashing Display Inscrutable and Filibeg gave a dashing display over the hurdles at Invercargill on Saturday morning. The pace was on all the way and both gave faultless exhibitions.

No Harm Great Coon took no harm from his Riverton racing and the Nigger Minstrel gelding will be next produced at the Southland winter meeting on Saturday. High-Priced Yearlings The yearling sold at 5250gns at the Sydney yearling sales was got by Ajax>~ Privet, by Gay Lothario-Woodbine, by Backwood from a mare by Malster. The 6750gns paid for the Dominant yearling is the record price for a yearling sold in Australia.

Forbury Meeting Nominations for the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s winter meeting close on April 17. The sum of £3OOO will be given in stakes. The straightout trotters’ races are 3.46 (l|m.) and 5.3 (2m.) classes. A 4.42 (2m.), a 3.38 (ljm.) and a 3.12 (1 mile and 3 furlongs) will suit Southland horses.

Sandydale’s Stock During the two days’ racing at Addington on March 31 and April 2, Sandydale had six representatives engaged, and they gained three wins, five seconds, and two thirds in ten starts. Sandydale’s stock are improving with age. He was got by Abbedale, one of the best sires in the United States.

Dunedin Winter Meeting At a meeting of the committee of the club the programme for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter meetings, to be held on June 2, 4 and 9, was approved, the stakes being increased by £2550 to a total of £9300. The Birthday Handicap was increased in distance to one mile and a-half and will carry a stake of £750, and a similar stake will also be given for the Otago Steeplechase. Other events received a proportionate increase.

Irish Lancer To Be Sold Irish Lancer, who goes under the hammer at Waikouaiti tomorrow, is a Hampton line horse through Bay Ronald and Bayardo. This line supplied Gay Crusader, Son-in-Law, Dark Ronald, Robin Goodfellow, and Solario, and hence Irish Lancer represents in tail male the dominant sires lines of the present time. On the dam’s side Irish Lancer traces to Lord Clifden, the sire of Hampton, and his grand-dam was got by. Radium, the sire of Night Raid. His fourth dam was got by St. Simon from a daughter of Bend Or, and consequently mares by Irish Lancer should do well at the stud.