YEARLING SALES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 291, 9 December 1939, Page 4

YEARLING SALES

Record Catalogue For Trentham JANUARY OFFERING PROGENY OF 55 SIRES With three Phaleron Bay two-year-olds from the first crop of the young Phalaris sire winning in the Dominion tins season, keen interest will be displayed when 14 youngsters by the Grange Stud stallion are offered at the National Yearling Sales at Trentham next January. Further, Phaleron Bay had the best average at the Sydney sales last Easter. Phaleron Bay is only one of 55 sires represented in the catalogue of 220 yearlings to be offered at the 1940 sales, and in all 120 breeders are represented, providing evidence of the fact that New Zealand breeders appreciate the importance of the sales, which have developed into one of the strongest attractions for Australian racing men. Bulandshar, the sire of that great three-year-old, High Caste, has the largest representation with 15 yearlings and Tiderace, the only son of Fairway in the Dominion, can claim an equal representation. One of. this sire’s yearlings topped the sales last year making 1450.gn5. The first two runners by him have already shown great promise and he is expected to be one of the rising sires in (he .Dominion. Foxbridge's oldest stock are now three-year-olds and arc winning with wonderful consistency in New Zealand. There are 11 youngsters by him, and 13 by another young Phalaris horse in Myosotis who is now in NewSouth Wales. Ten yearlings are by that wonderfully consistent si l '?. Lord Quex. He is the sire of Catalogue and many first-class stayers in New Zealand Hunting Song, Ibe champion sire in New Zealand, is also strongly represented, as is Posterity, who has been much to the fore overseas this year with such representatives as Mosaic in Australia and Tohunga in South Africa. The latter won live races on end there this season including the Durban Gold Cup of £2SUU. There are not many yearlings in the catalogue by Defoe, the sire of the great colt, Defaulter, but there are slated to be first-class youngsters. This horse does not serve more than 15 mares a year. Iliad, Night Raid and Night march, all of whom are doing very well in the Dominion this season, Lord Warden, Lackham. (sire of Mala), Martarma (sire of Martara), Pink Coat (sire of Kinnoull), Siegfried (sire of Wotan), Tidal (sire of Floodtide), and Vaals (sire of Cheval de Voice) are all strongly represented, an indication that there are great possibilities for securing stayers from this year’s catalogue. Other proven sires that are also well represented include Colossus, Captain Bunsby, Gascony, Hazrat, Illumination, Nightly, Pombal, Speardance, Salmaguidi, Kulanul, Winning Hit, etc. Promising young sires who have commenced well include Ringmaster. Leighon, Inflation, Safari, Solicitor General and Vermeer. Sires well known in. Australia that arc also represented include Pantheon, Salmagundi and Hazrat. Some particularlj well-bred young sires whose first yearlings are expected to attract much attention include Man’s Pal. a highly performed son of Manna descending from Chelandry, a half-brother lo Manna in Baffles, the young slaying Foxlaw horse, Foxlight, the Solario horse St. Boswells, and a grey son of Tetratema in Theio, a noted sprinter and brother to another class English horse in Thyestes, while several English sires in Sandwich, Blandonian and Thrapston are represented by yearlings which were imported in utero. There are several sons of the champion sire. Hunting Song, at the stud in New Zealand and all have sired winners. Another of these will be represented for the first tiniQ; in the Derby winner, Sporting Blood. Following on the yearling sales, several stud dispersals are to be held, and a shipment of very well-bred English fillies and colts are to be offered for sale. Catalogues will soon be obtainable from the joint auctioneers, Messrs. Wm. Onglis and Son, Pty., Ltd., 28 O’Connell Street, Sydney, and the New Zealand firms of Messrs. Wright Stephenson and Co., Ltd., 34 Customhouse Quay, Wellington, whose Melbourne Office is Henty House, 499 Little Collins Street, and Messrs. Pyne Gould Guinness Ltd., 178 Cashel Street, Christchurch. The hurdle races are for £2OO and £lBO, and the juvenile events, for two-year-olds, will carry stakes of £175 and £l6O respectively. The minimum stake is £l4O, and there is sure to be a generous response on Monday night.