Class Horses For India

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 18 (Supplement)

Class Horses For India

Good class English horses are being sold in large numbers to go abroad. Papers which have come to hand recently disclose that Indian owners are taking the fullest advantage of the opportunity of getting good horses at the moderate prices now prevailing in England. Two horses which will do their future racing in India are Glen Loan and Lightship. Glen Loan, who is by Loaningdale from Abbot’s Glen, by Abbot’s Trace from Glentilt, by Hurry On, was one of the best of the English two-year-olds in 1937, w r hen he won the Kempton Park Imperial Produce Stakes. As a three-year-old he defeated Hesperian and Greenwich in the Great Yorkshire Stakes. During the season just over he won the Rous Memorial Stakes at Ascot, and afterwards kept Blue Peter very busy at the end of the Eclipse Stakes, in which he was a good second to the Derby winner. Glen Loan will prove a worthy opponent for Finalist if he acclimatises in India. Lightship, who, like Glen Loan, was purchased through the Anglo-India Agency of London, is now a four-year-old. He won four races on end last season for Sir Henry Lyons, mostly over a mile and a mile and a quarter. One was the Thornden Stakes at Newmarket, another was the Londesborough Plate at York, in which Greenwich was unplaced. Lightship is by Paros. Another good horse going to India is Cockpit, who won five races for Lord Derby. They were the Rous Memorial Stakes at Ascot, Redcar Foal Plate, and Gimcrack Stakes as a two-year-old, and the Hastings Stakes at Newmarket and the Atlantic Cup at Liverpool at three years. He is by Caerleon (son of Phalaris) from Merripit, by Sir Eager from Postbridge, by Bridge of Canny, and was bred at Sledmere. Another four-year-old bound for the same country is Fulham, who was bred and raced by Lord Astor. By Asterus from Instantaneous, by Hurry On from Picture, by Gainsborough, he won three good races worth £4260. There should be some great racing in India next season.