MEADOW SOLD

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21041, 17 February 1940, Page 8

MEADOW SOLD

TO RACE IN INDIA A CONSISTENT PERFORMER WON £7BO THIS SEASON Among the purchaser, at tha tho»* oughbred dispersal at Claudelanda was Mr J. P. Thorpe, who this season has met with a lair measure of success with Meadow, a consistent but somewhat unlucky performer, who in his 14 starts this season was only three times out of the money, winning on two occasions, second six times and three times third. Meadow won £7BO in stakei this season and several days ago negotiations were finalised by Mr Thorpe for the sale of the three-year -old to an Indian sportsman, and he will do his future racing in India. Yesterday Mr Thorpe secured ■ three-year-old brown gelding by Jay from Elnona for the modest outlay of 90gns, and the gelding is to be put into training immediately. On the score of breeding the new aequisition has much to commend him, his sire, Jay, being a half-brother to Holhoma, a son of Magpie, the sire of those great performers: Windbag, * Amounis, Black Ronald, and Coripax. Elnona is by the Soult mare Elysian and traces back to Nordenfeldt, who was out of the imported Steppe. SALE OF FILS DE VAALS The sale was concluded yaaterda? of the three-year-old Fils de Vaals, by an Auckland agent on behalf of an overseas buyer. The most important success of Fils de Vaals was hia victory in the Summer Cup at Elleralie during the Christmas carnival.