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Chronicle (Levin), 4 March 1947, Page 7

Received Monday, 9.45 p.m. SYDNEY, March 3. Rumours which started during the weekend that Bernborough has morq thap. oue i'oal in Queensland, have been taken up by the Sydney press with varying degrees of caation. The orig: inal report claimed that Jack Bach, of Dalby, Queensland, stated the Bernborough had f our foals in Au^tralia. Bach,- who boughfc/ Bernborough as a foal with his dam Bcrn Mhid, for 14U gulneaa, was qqoted as saying he had a two year old-colt by Bernborough from Miss Shirley and that there were three other foals, the whereabouts of two of which he meutioned. . The first paper to pubjish the story quoted Mr. Bach as saying the foals were cortceived when Bernborough was taken from "the other fellow's stable and kept for ten days ' '. This afternoon's Sun statefi that rumours had [jeen current on the Darling Dowus for j some time that not only are there foals by Bernborough in Austrajia but at least one has r aced. Toowoomba racing men express qo surprise at the story. No move to register any horse by Bernborough has been made as far as the Queensland Turf Club is aware. The Telegraph published a telephone conversation with Mr. Bach in which he saij -his two year old colt was the only Bernborough colt he knew of in Australia. He depcribed the colt which was born in AugusL 1945, as a big horse' bearing a remajkabie resemblance to Befnbofough hiinseif. Mr. Bach stated this week he would appi'y to the Queensland Turf Club for registration and the narne -tyTf. Bernia He admitted not having made a retufn , of the foaling t'o the Australia stud book as when in Sydney after Bernborough hhd been barred from racing in 1943, he had been told that returhs by . him to the stud book would. not be accepted. The keeper of the stud book, Mr. "A. Loddon Yuille,. was quoted by the Herald as saying that until the registrar of raceho^ses was ,satisfied ovei tiie particulars bf breeding, no horsbs claimed to be the stock oF Bernborough would be allowed rto race in Australia.