"Ajax," writing to the Bulletin snys that re Molly's Robe, Mr. Hillcoat was discussing the naming of the filly with some friends. At last he said: "I'll have to go." He hud promised to meet his daughter Molly, who was buying a confirmation robe. "Call the filly Moly's Robe," said someone, and it was so. Both Molly's Robe and Kennaquhair nre descended from mares whose imbrceding is to Kelpie, a chestnut horse bred in England in 1855. Kelpie came to Victoria as a four-year-old, and got amongst other good ones Croydon (Metropolitan), Kingfisher (two Sydney Cups), Trunin Card and Circassian (Sydney Cup). All colts; as a producer of fillies he was then hopeless. Later he went to Gordon Brook, on the Clarence, and there he began to sire Buch fillies as Thyra (winner of the Glen Innes £1000), Maude Atlanta, Ariadne and other notables. Saving a few shillings on tyres is not economy! Fit the celebrated Xorth British CLINCHER CROSS TYRES! which beat the Teat in the great 5,000 mileiUAwH- U
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1919, Page 10
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171Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1919, Page 10
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