DERBY FAVOURITE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 427, 7 May 1937, Page 7

DERBY FAVOURITE

Fairford In Demand The latest cable, news concerning the English De.by, to o- run on Juno discloses a new favour.te, Fairford, a son of Fairway, who has displaced ae family lavouiue, Tne Hour On the basis of last season s »orai. Fairford’s elevation .o the head of the £>eruy list »s eurp.is:-ig, lor ne not appear on the Turf ~s a two-year-old. So ii ie -was known of h.m that xv/r. F -wee ham { upper » o tne ,uckey Club,' aid nut lake him into wh.n assessing lus Free Handicap in December last. Fairfo.d must have come o hand qu-ckly this ye'jr, and evidently has 1 won a race of some impor-ance, with .1 bearin.g on the Derby, for, in view ■if the good form of the eaily favour.tcs, it would need to be an on standing performance, comments an Australian writer. Fair to rd is raced ,by Mr. W. Murray, who p-.id 4000 guineas for him as a yearling. Mi". Murray is a patron of the successful establishment iif Captain Boyd-Rb<chefor', and no doubt Fairford is sheltered there: If such is the case, that trainer has ai -treat opportunity of taking this year’s Derby honours, for he also Prepares Perifox, who is third favourite or he race, and the brilliant colt, Foray, who is considered’ to have a mortgage on the Two Thousand Guineas, and is also engaged in the Derby. Fairford is the second foal of his dam, Pallet Crag, the first being a winner, -the filly Mine’s a Minor, by Tetra'ema. He is bred on the best of s'aymcr I nes, Pallet Crag is by the Derby winner Craig an Eran (son of Sunstar, a Derby winner) from Pal_ mella, by the Derby winner Lembei’g <son of Syllene, sire of four Derby winners, and of Phalaris, sire of Fairway) from Ascenseur (dam of Wayfood, Irish Derby winner, and’ Sun-->tep, grandam of the good American ' olt Gallsnt Sir). .Ascenseur was. by Easter, sire of the d; m of Gloaming, ind a sister to Syce (imp.), who goY many brilliant horses while at the byndhurst Stud, Queensland. Sky-j-raper, dam of Ascenseur, who was by Velasquez or Arysbire, was a -half-s-ster to Popinjay, dam of Magpie (imp.), and grandam of Saucy Sue (Oaks), Booklaw (St. Leger, and darn of Rhodes Scholar), Pogrom (Oaks), and Pay Up (Two Thousand Guineas). Fairford, therefore, is a descendant of the remarkable family established by "the mare Illuminata, from which come Heroic, Night Raid (imp.), Rossendale (imp.), Ladas (Derby), am! innumerable other greet gallopers and paddock horses. The prominent horses in the latest Derby call over, in order, were: —| Fairford. Le Grand Due. Per if ox The Hour, Foray. Snowfall. Sydney Owner’s Parsimony Behind the yearling sales lies a rather disturbing impression that Sydney owners are not very keen to outlay really big amoun s on horses. Because the sales were held in Sydney (according to a’Sydney journal), > the local buyers overwhelmed the visitors in numbers, and most of the high-priced lots should normally have remained here. But, of the 51 yearlings which brought 500 guineas on the first, two days of the sale, 24 went lo inter-State or overseas buyers. Melbourne owners bought 16, showing that the bigger prizes in Victoria warrant a big outlay on yearlings.