THE TURF

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 8, 10 July 1923, Page 10

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BI " SIR UNCBLOI.'.')

In a recent issue,,pf;'JThß,^Australasian;', 1 "Touchstone" makes the ■ follow! Inglieference to a well-known New Zealand* performer:—"Dun, or mouse-col-oured, racehorses are rarely seen on Au's- • tralian racecourses nowadays, but I no-, tica" that. Meandering, /a/pretty smart: two-year-old, at present, racing in England, is described as a dun.. Meandering is cleat} bred. He is by Honeybeo;(brown) from Sunshine Rose (chestnu£)y by Bonarosa, from Captured ■ (black or brown),, by Earla Hor from Bird i' th' Hand, (brown), by Gallinule from . Bush (brown), by Bushey Park, so it is easy to see where ho gets his colour. One of thov-few really^ good; dun-cbldured ■ racehorses I can remember was Kimberley. a hurdle-racer, owned* by Mr. Spencer Goljan. Kimberley was an aged gelding (by Armourer), when '- Percy" 'Martin Drought him- over' 'from New Zealand with": other horses of Mr. Gollan's in 1891: Ridden by Harry Moore (who, Tvhen I last heard of him, was hotelkeeping'in the Bacchus Marsh district), Kimberl'ey made a regular show 'of 'a' good" ■field; in the three miles hurdlo race at tho.^Melbourne Cup Meeting of 1891. He carried only- a light weight on that occasion, but after another win ,at .Flemington on New Year's Day he, wound up *the season by winning at'Caulfield .with; 11.6, and the Hurdle Race on tho second day of the Grand-National -Meet-, ingi'with 11.11. A 101b penalty—bringing', his' weighVto';l2.l ior.bis^Caulfiehl success—had settled his chance -in' -theGrand National, which, was won .by Red: loap^ the greatest jumper we have" "ever", seen; in Australia.'' Kimberley went amiss shortly after that Grand, National Meeting, and did not race for a consider-able-time.- He..showed no. form under the heavy weights be was allotted when he reappeared- jn 1894... Kimberley .was; by Armourer, a horse witii. which"Jei%"-~ •vis George won a lot. of races.; Armour^cr was by Tubal Cain, ;a South Australian,* bred sire, who -had several 'representatives racing in the Dominion about tho'^saihe time. Turquoise' ;waa ono of. the.Js.est of them.' and pothers were-Emir Beyj, Bayai;dj-and'. 3-aiarba.- ,THb : la~st. namedh-wa's *utrafned!L,by*;Stuart'"~Waddell'" .'for Messrs.. l : u _S.tephen'soh and Hazlitt. Milksop, flam of. Kimberley, ■ also produced Laitero (by Tim Whiffler), and Beeswing,- two creamies, the latter sired by Remington. Probably the best cre4'nryl',ever Iraced in tho was M,si:arQrii, winner-"pf the 'Hawkes-Bay Steeplachase.-X' »-The~. writer .."dmitte'd .'Vto^, mention that Harry Moore recently returned, to. the;Do_rninion from South Australia; and is at present in the' Auckland district. .•-:, , : J -.;."

. Be'G'ently" at'Trentham the' writer Board it argued that the progeny of a chestnut, sirs and dam; were always chestnnts. -. Students- of; breeding, who take, an-interest in the colour, system'■will be interested to know that, Milksop, dam of Kimberley, was:a dun-coloured mare, by ..iNakaMa, .from Miss . Hicksoii, -by iYounj; Australian,*from a, Sydney, mare, of no pedigree! Young Australian was a black horse, imported by Mr. W. Uickson from Australia. .Mr.-Hicks'on' ,was judge at the old/Huttld'aces in' the: ■'60s. Miss Hickson' was,'dam of The Orphan, owned by"Mr.- Hugh' Gillies,' of: iPalmerston North, and trained by Mr, "J. O. Hayward, now residing in Victoria: The Orphan ivon the Birthday Cup at Tauherenikau, and other races in the iVVairarapa over 40' years ago:■■• '- "Old Sport," Greytown North,, writes as^-'follows;:'-T-4.'I)ear,. — 'Sit.. Lante![ot,'j-r-1,. Toad in ariceht' issue of 'The'■ Australasian- of the death of Mr. A. Drake,iwho. some years ago was one oE the prominent fielders, in. the..Dominion,.,and Jie_a.lso, ■raced *aFfedr*harses, Peter*-Osbeck'andi ,T,eddy"Xu.^e,.j??mg two-that I can remember. ' -T^ib" paragraph' spoke of SJiade' Gruinea coming.to grief.in the Melbourne Gup and having to';be" destroyed. She•was described as a be&utiful ' black marc, whereas she was a. chestnut. It* also stated that Mr. Drake claimed to have been thefirst man to give R. J. Mason a horse to trainl I think, there' is some mistake about the .latter stateroentll Messrs. Mason -and YalIhncejwere^jifliartnership the late'-Mf'.- .Wi 1 "Walfeiis/senV,' of "Aticklaiid, gave' Masbii iKitzhercules ,to train for. the ; C.J.Ci Derby, won ,by The:TDaupnin, in iBBI.Peter Osbeck and Teddy Yuile, whom Mason was training "for Mr. Drake, were racing in 1886." - The writer read the paragraph and--, thought it? was wrong. It is hard yto «'say "what -was the.first hirse trained, by Mr: .Mason. . Chatting ■with the late 'Mr.-Edwardi Ghitts, the lattep i n [ ormec i t], e wr it er t h at jj r _' j£ a . s6ii"~f6as"'antl"trained' Lurline "when she -woa.the^Dunedin; Cup in 1874. „