THE AWAPUNI YEARLINGS FOR PRIVATE SALE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1555, 12 February 1920, Page 19

THE AWAPUNI YEARLINGS FOR PRIVATE SALE.

Mr. J. Goring Johnston, of Palmerston North, is advertising for private sale five yearlings, four colts and one filly. They are broken to saddle, and are ready to go into work, and the head lines of their breeding will be found in the advertisement in another column. The Absurd colt, a brown, ■is a half brother to Warplane and :Quip, and as most people know. War--plane, who won over £lBOO in stakes ilast year, was one of the very best •of his age. Adelicia, the dam of this colt, who is of the No. 3 family, has thus done something to bring her name into prominence as a brood mare. The other four lots are also by an imported horse, in Panmure, who. besides being a good performer at Home and after coming to New Zealand, has a three-year-old half brother in Perion (by Amadis), who won half a dozen races in England last season, and comes of a good racing family. The bay colt by Panmure from Neirene (by Martian), who is a full sister to Hurry Up, is of the No. 5 family. Hurry Up, who has been in training for about a season and a-half, has been a very good performer and winner of £l6OO. He is expected to make a fine crosscountry horse, and is to be sent Home to Captain Shannon, to whom he has been made a present and who will have him educated to the jumping business. Parera, whose progeny have won close on £lO,OOO, is the dam of the third lot on the list, and as everything she has produced has won and such races as the North Island Challenge Stakes, Hawke’s Bay Stakes, Palmerston North Stakes, Stewards’ Handicap and Winter Cup

have to be included in their winnings, thus her latest contribution to the Stud Book, old enough to go into work, should be worth considering. The chestnut colt from Bengline (by Sir Laddo) is a half sister to Gloss (by Soult), a winner of races in Australia and India, from Lustrous, by Dreadnought from Radiant, by Suwarrow, going back to famous old Juliet (imported). The chestnut filly from Overall, dam of the succesful two-year-old filly Saima, like each of the others, will bear inspection, and we need hardly again remind those in search of racing material, are sure to be well done to start off their future careers. As Mr. Johnstone is going Home shortly for a lengthy stay it can be understood why he is selling. Half the pleasure of racing is in seeing ones horses race. The next best thing is in knowing that they are racing satisfactorily for someone else. The yearlings above referred to are from successful families, and can be seen at Awapuni, at their owner’s stables.

While working on the tan at Flemington on January 21, Carlsberg (Gaby — Heidelberg), a member of Fred Burn’s team, got out of hand and crashed into a fence bordering the track. Carlsberg was being ridden by a stable-boy, and when his rider tried to check his speed the horse stumbled into the fence, his head striking a post with terriffic force. Carlsberg was taken home, but after examination by a veterinary surgeon he had to be destroyed. The rider was uninjured, although his foot was caught in one of the stirrupirons. The horse, having been dazed, did not move while the lad’s foot was entangled.

The Randwick vet., Mr.. W. J. Miller, inspected the V.R.C. Derby winner, Richmond Main, and found that the injury to his coronet and hoof was mending well. The stake entered the coronet and went halfway into the hoof, but it is healing splendidly, and the fleshy part of the wound is practically all right. A hole in the hoof has yet to grow out. and it will probably be some time before the horse can be put into work.

Whilst contesting the Hurdle Race at the A.J.C. anniversary meeting at Randwick on January 23, Kincumber Lad fell, sustaining an injury to his spine, which proved fatal. During the afternoon the sum of £42,510 ss. was invested on the three totalisators at Randwick.