TRENTON BLOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 12

TRENTON BLOOD

MUCH IN EVIDENCE SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIA THE STORY OF RESEARCH Several of the most noted performers on the Australian turf have come from yearlings that found little favour in the sale ring. Charles Quinn, who for many years was the premier jockey of South Australia, profited exceedingly in later life by buying young thoroughbreds at low cost. After developing their galloping talent he would resell the horses to great advantage. Quinn never made the price too high for a prospective buyer. Indeed, there was an occasion on which he practically gave away one member of his string. In 1901 Charley’s Adelaide stable was overcrowded, and he let Research go for 100 guineas. This was five times as much as the original cost, but the gelding was a bargain to his new owner. Research came from the Tirrengower stud of Mr. W. I. Winter-Irving, being by The Inquisitor from Margaret Helen. Though a son of Trenton, The Inquisitor was | not a fashionable sire, and his yearlings went for hack prices. The Margaret Helen colt fell to Quinn’s bid at 20 guineas, and be secured the Addition colt for 121 guineas. Tom Dempsey, father of Frank Dempsey, had to pay only 20 guineas for the colt by The Inquisitor—lmba, and the top price obtained was 271 guineas for a colt from Lucinda. VANQUISHED WAKEFUL Quinn bestowed the name of Research on the Margaret Helen colt, who as a two-year-old defeated Footbolt by a head in the St. Leonards Handicap at Morphettville. The late J. McCann was on Footbolt. Well known are the brilliant achievements of Footbolt after joining the Flemington establishment of W. S. Hickenbotliam. He had to be something out of the ordinary to vanquish Wakeful by four lengths at weight-for-age in the V.A.T.C. St. George Stakes on