THE RACING WORLD

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 281, 26 August 1942, Page 6

THE RACING WORLD

KEEN INTEREST IN BREEDING

Sires Fully Booked

(By The Watcher.)

Interest in the breeding side of the racing game has probably never been keener. Staliion owners report unprecedented bookings. The champion stallion. Foxbridge, has been fully booked for some time now at a fee of lOOgns., and bookings have already been made for next season. This also applies to Robin Goodfellow, another descendant of Son-In-Law, who -ran second in the English Derby and whose foe is also lOOgns. The South Island sire, Battle Song, an Irish classic Winner by Spion Kop, is also fully booked, alul a number of highly-bred North. Island ami Australian mares are again visiting this horse. Like the Trentham sire, Kincardine, the fee for Battle Song is 75gns. Kincardine, who is looking' in magnineent form, has also been fully booked, rhe sire of Kindergarten has attracted high-class mares from all parts of the Dominion. Among these is the Night Raid mare, Daigle, the dam of Sally Lunn. Another sire who is proving popular, and for whom a. “full book" is announced, is the grey horse Nizami. Bred by lI.H. the Aga Khan, the son of the “flying filly” Mumtaz Mahal, is the associate sire at the' Irelawny stud with Fox-bridge. Bookings to Nizami include a number from Canterbury. • Defeated World Champion Stake-earner. When Captain Gerald Mel-.lllgott, MRC V S , of the British Bloodstock Agency, Ltd., was in New Zealand a vear ago, he had a two-year-old racing in Ireland which had won at all his five starts. He received five cables, one each at Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Sydney and Wellington, announcing the wins, followed by one to say that his partner had sold the colt to the United States for 2uoo gns. the colt in question, is by Colorado Kid, who is from the same family as Foxbridge, while his dam Is by Foxlaw. Captain McElligott, who rejoined his regiment in India after visiting New Zealand, picked Rounders up at the. Newmarket Sales for lOOgns., so he was a very profitable buy. On resuming racing as a three-year-old. Rounders easily won his first start in the United States,. That he has continued to improve was indicated in the cables recently when it was announced that Rounders had defeated the American champion, Whirlaway, which four-year-old son of the English Derby winner, Blenheim, was recently announced as the world record stake earner. Colorado Kid the sire of Rounders, is owned by Mrs' Macdonald Buchanan, through whose •generosity the Derby winner, Coronach, was sent to New Zealand. When her stud was being reduced last year Colorado Kid was under offer here, but a sale did not result.

Supremacy of British Bloodstock. The defeat of Whirlaway by Englishbred Rounders'would not be very palatable to American breeders who, since they have acquired the English Derby winners; Blenheim, sire of Mahmoud, Bahram, sire of' Big Game, aud Mahmoud himself, have been claiming that America after the war would be in a position to supply the world’s markets with thoroughbred stock. England, they argue, will be so depleted that it will be impossible for her to meet the demand. Though England sold three Derby winners to the United States, she has not sold her best. For example, she still retains the great sire, Hyperion, who must rank close to the best . of all time, and Fairway, the sire of this year s Derby winner, Watling Street, and a previous Derby winner in Blue Peter. When American Interests tried to secure the promising young sire, Nearco, by Pharos, recently. a syndicate was formed at a cost of £02,000, aud he is to remain In' England. ' Before they were exported, Blenheim, Bahram and Mahmoud had all been used at the stud in England so there is ample of this blood remaining there. Big Game, too, who is closely related to Hyperlon on the dam’s side, may easily prove to be a better sire than Bahram. Another point that Is being overlooked by the Americans is that their country has developed several dise’ases among horses that tney have failed to cope with, and as a result both Australia and New Zealand have had to place an embargo on American horses Few American-bred thoroughbreds have actually found their way to this part of the world, but a considerable trade In trot tin" stock had been developed. Importation of trotting stock is now also prohibited.

Spell for Authoress. Thlrli Authoress, with three wins and a tbiru out of five starts over hurdles, is to no given a spell.

Spring Baclng in Australia. nn Spring racfiig in _ Australia Saturday, when in Sydney the A.J.C. win stage the Warwick Farm meeting at Band wick. The .principal events are the Hobart ville Stakes for three-year-olds, the Warwick Stakes at weiglit-for-age, and the Campbelltown and Marwick larni s Wlng Handicaps. With the retirement of Beau Vite, High Caste and Beaullvre, there will not be so much New Zealand interest iu the racing th'is-year, but there io still the possibility of one or two of our lea .ding horses making the trip for later racing. Ganconv Wos Brilliant. Gascony, whose death is reported, was a good class racehorse in the coiourfi of his breeder, Mr. T. H. Lowry. His best performances included the Great. Northern Foal Stakes and Champague Stakes, and the North Island Challenge Stakes. Gascony was foaled in 1924. by K_i iig John from First Blow, by Finland—War Talk ■by Martian— Gossip. At the stud he Ml some useful horses noted chiefly for their pace. Last season his stock won 11 races and secured 30 plaeings tor £lw>o in stakes. Among his winners were bymcony, Ben Braggie, Bakahanga, Trench Law and Symbol.

Half Belatives. . Two horses bred by Mr. W. Claud Motion, vice-president of the New Zealand Racing Conference, raced prominently at the Pakuranga Hunt meeting, Aguilo ant. Precisely. Aguilo bad been operated on for. wind trouble since he last won, so apparently the operation has. proved successful. Precisely, who is the only one of the pair to carry the breeder’s colours, ran third in the Auckland Handicap at an out-, side price. Formerly with A Cook, I recisely is now trained by A. Tinker. Both are out of Exactly, Aguilo by Bronze Eagle and Precisely by Vaals. is by Lucullus from Tact, by Obligato Tito, by Soult.

Generosity. , , , For generosity, the action of the owner, trainer and rider of Shut Out, alter Hillcolt won the Belmont Stakes at Belmont. Park. (New York) recently, would he hard to beat. Mrs. Payne Whitney gave £6uo (half of first money)' to the funds being raised at New York tracks for war relief organizations, while trainer Gaver contributed £676 (50 per cent, of his W P" cent; fee), and jockey Arcaro <£4.16, half ot his 10 per cent., after deduction of expenses. Later Shut Out won Another big three-year-old race, the Arlington Classic. of the total value ot about £-o,ioo. That probably gave the war fund another big contribution.

Answers to Correspondents. “Win,” Wellington: £10; £4/11/-. “Ouieo,” Featherston: Royevrus and Radiant Vaals were bracketed at tne Auckland winter meeting on the basis ot ownership. “Sport,” Walouru: Master Lackliam vias scratched for the Grand National Hurdles at 10.47 a.m. on the day of the race. Harpo; £3/11/-; £l/17/6. Wellington: £9O/13/- and £lB/6/-.