Fresh Boy, Second In Melbourne Cup, Sired By Revelation, Of Waimana

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 96, 7 November 1947, Page 4

Fresh Boy, Second In Melbourne Cup, Sired By Revelation, Of Waimana

The diminutive colt Fresh Bey, placed second in the Melbourne Cup is, like the winner, Hiraji, New Zealand-bred, and has a close association with this district, having been sired by Revelation, owned by the late F. J. Savage and Sons, Waimana, and now on lease to Sir J. Fletcher, of Te Kauwhata. Fresh Boy was bred by Sir Ernest Davis of Auckland, and sold in 1945 at the foot of his dam, Racefox (by Foxbridge out of Vera Acre). Vera Acre was by Acre out of Miss Vera. Racefox is a full sister to Foxwyn, winner of the Auckland Racing Cup worth £SOOO (distance 2 miles) also winner of the Queen’s Plate worth £6OO (1 mile) and was second in the Great Northern Derby (II miles). Revelation’s progeny include Black Simon, winner in New Zealand and India; Simon’s Sister, winner in New Zealand .and India; Skilled, winner in New Zealand and Australia; Blue Simon, winner in New Zealand and India; Black Simon who has had two firsts and one second place in three starts as a 2-year-old this season; Tuis, who won the Auckland Railway Handicap and many other races and Lord Revell, who ranks third highest stake winner among 3-year-olds last season winning over £3OOO. Other winners are Voltaic, Prince Revell, (who ran Sleepy Fox to a head in the Auckland Railway Handicap), Seafire, Landfire, Penetrate, Reveller, Sedgmere, Patmos, Brown Atom, Revelene, Second Seal, Top Drawer, Supervision, Lola May, Kaimoni.

All but Prince Revel, Top Drawer and Kaimoni were bred by the late F. J. Savage and Sons, and the other three were reared by them.