CONSISTENT ARROW LAD

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1930, Page 4

CONSISTENT ARROW LAD

■HONEST SECOND-CLASS •SPRINTER.' ; Arrow Lad cannot be. called a good Jioree, but one cannot deny the fact that the Arrowsmith, gelding is one of the most consistent second-class sprinters in commission. Like,another of the Arrow; smith progeny, Toxeuma, he has a great record for consistency and over a period of five seasons’ racing he has been placed on 41 occasions’ in 70 starts. In. that time he has measured strides •with some of the best sprinters in '• the Dominion and his. stake-earnings . now approach' £4OOO. . During his .career, Arrow Lad haq registered’ two good victories over the Taranaki champion Reremoana, beating him in the Nai Nai Handicap at Trfehtham and then downing Cimabue And the Hallowmas gelding in the Criterion Handicap at Riecarton. Throughout the recent New 2<aland Cup carnival Arrow Lad raced consistently but without, luck and had the bad fortune to bump up

•gainst Toxeuma in the eprint on the , topening day of the Woodville meeting. He extended the Railway Handicap topweight, who vvas forced to run very (fast time and when Arrow. Lad appeared lover a middle-distance on the second day th® public would have nothing else. (The suppotters of the favourite never had an anxious moment and he won his firet race of the season in very easy • fashion. 'Arrow Lad is very well just . inow and whatever he takes on from six to nine furlongs he must be rcepected during the holidays. Arrow Lad was bred by Mr. C. Jones •nd was purchased privately by his present owner, lie is a younger halfibrother to Mountain Jean and Some Lad/ and an older half-brother to Arajean and the two-year-old Jean'Ladosio. A yearling colt from Jeanne Laddo in Mr. Jones’ possession at present is by Csigger Minstrel, and the latest foaling » again by Arausio. ; i - The leading lines of Arrow Lad’s pedigree are as follows: — Sire: Arrowsmith, by Chaucer (son of St. Simon) from Sagitta (Sister to Jbhn o’ Gaunt, the sire of Stvynford), by Isinglass (son'of Isonomy, and winner of the Triple Crown) from La Piech® (winner of lOOOgns., Oaks, and St. Leger), iby St. Simon (son of Galopin) from Quiver (dam of Polymelus), by Toxophilite (sire of Musket). Dam; Jeanne Laddo (half-sister to Orleans, Demos, Bevia, and Happy Days), by Sir Laddo (son of Sir Hugo), from Jeanne d’Arc, by St. Andrew (eon Of St. Leger) from Montdread (closely related to Snub, Bee, Disdainful and Re-

proachful, dam of Chide), by Dreadnought (son of Chester) front Montmartre (sister to Hugenot, ancestress of Nightmarch)/by Apremont (son of Mortemer). ' ■ . . His summarised record to date is as follows: —

There is just the possibility that Sargon will contest both the Auckland Cup and the Derby, but ft will depend entirely upon his windup gallops. His soreness has not yet worn off and he was physicked during the week-end. Should he show improvement on his short letup the original itinerary may be adhered to.

At 2 years 1st. 3 2nd. 3rd. Unp. £ .2 5 510 At 3 years 4 7 4 5 104'5 At 4 years.' •2 ■ 1 7 1100 At 5 years 2 ' 2 1 At 6 years 1 5 1 5 480