1 _By advertisement in another column it I will be seen that tho services of Mr Gains Osrrington’s fine thoroughbred San Remo will again bo available in this district this season. San Remo is by Bs. Legor— I Cissy, and is full brother to Sant Illario I now standing.in Canterbury. St. Leger’s I progeny have won up to the present stakes of the value of £85,217, and ,the raceI horses sired by St. Leger’s sons have won I £56,366. Cissy, the dam of San Remo, is own sister to Trenton, at one time the premier sire of,Australia, and now getting winners in England, where San Remo’s half-brother, Altair, is at present standing. Frailty, mother of Cissy, has produced stock which have brought the largest I prioes as yearlings of any Bold in New ! I Zealand, having fetohed up to £2225, San Remo has an aristocrats pedigree, and in point of breeding takes rank among tho [ boat in the colony. Ho produoes big foals, t and it is hold that the moat successful sires are those horses who have never raoed, but have had their full energies preserved for stud purposes. St. Leger’s stock have been purchased by the most prominent racing men in the oolony, and in San Remo’s blood is included the strains of such famous horses as Musket (through Brown Bess), Touohstone, Camel, Fisherman, Thormanby, StookwelLGolde* borough, and q, host of others, hV:
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1549, 4 September 1905, Page 2
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