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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 77, 21 March 1914, Page 3

won over hurdles at Moonee V r alley and at Flemington, and subsequently picked up a Jumpers' Flat Race and Hopetoun' Cup, and capped the lot with Essendon Stakes and Australian Cup. Wallalo has won 13 races, and is apparently only just now at his best.

A telegram from Melbourne to the Sydney Daily Telegraph mentions the serious illness of Mr James Wilson, sen.', at his homo, Bonny Yale, near Qneenselitf. Mr Wilson is probably the oldest racing man in Australia. He was in full swing as a horseowner in 18-17, and though in his 85th year, was a very interested spectator at the recent V.R.C. meeting, at which several of his horses were entered, and his Hush Money ran third in the Farewell Handicap. It was this veteran sportsman who founded the once famous St. Albans stud about the year 1870, and during his turf career owned and trained the winners of most of the principal races in Victoria, .as well as in the adjoining .States. He won the V.R.C. Derby, Melbourne Cup, and Oaks with Biiseis, Champion Stakes twice and other races with First King. Melbourne Cup with Don.'-Juan, Ascot. Vale Stakes and others with King of ;tlie Ring, and Australian and Sydney Cups with 'Savanaka. He was 'particularly successful in the preparation of fillies and mares, and he won~many of his best *races with Musidora, Briseis, Maid of All Work, Miss Jessie,"'Sea spray, Pardon, /Sunshine, My Dream, Gasworks, Mermaid, Fen d'Artihce;, Petrea, Dagmar, and Royal'Maid. Mr Wilson in his youthful days was ah excellent cross country horseman.";