HEROIC AND PROUD OWNER
Leadhv* sire in Australia for ihe season just closed, splendidly-named Heroic winner o£ over £38,000 in stakes though out of action for a big part of his three-year-old season, has mounted the ladder to fame at the stud just as quickly and surely as he climbed the stake rungs m his racing days.. ' The first season that Heroic was represented .as a sire was the 1930-31 season, when he finished twentieth on the wmnir."1 sires 7' list, with 10 winners of IS races and' £7550 in prize-money. In bis second season, he. was sixth with 20 winners of 59% races and .'£14,035. Now m the season .just' closed, his third at the stud, he has- topped ;the. list with 47. winners of 04 races and £25.468. Mr. C. B. Kellow, who gave 16,000 <vuineas for Heroic as' a three-year-old and 'who. still owns him. .gave his friends souvenir pictures of the librae'when'he re■'tired'to the. stud. He has now, had.iurther photographs taken of his champion with a view to another souvenir.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 4
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174HEROIC AND PROUD OWNER Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1933, Page 4
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