HAROLD LOGAN (4.13 2-5.)

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 66, 19 March 1931, Page 14

HAROLD LOGAN (4.13 2-5.)

BREEDING OF THE CHAMPION. INFLUENCE OF THOROUGHBRED BLOOD. The performance of Harold Logan in going 4.13 2-5 has made the son of Logan Pointer famous and his record is likely to stand for a long time. Whenever a new champion is produced theie is always someone to relate an interest ing story concerning his breeding or sale, and touching Harold Logan Mr. F. C. Thomas writes interestingly in a Ghristchurch paper. Mr. Thomas says that recently he was fortunate enough to get into touch with Mr. F. Forbes, of Waiau, North Canterbury, and from him gleaned the history of Harold Logan's maternal ancestry. Toward the close of last century there was a thoroughbred mare in the Ashburton district named Charity, supposed to be by Perkin Warbeck. She had little to her credit in the matter of track performances, and on being relegated to the stud failed to breed, though mated with several thoroughbred sires. When all hope of getting her to produce was despaired of, as a last resource she was mated with a young but little-known light-harness stallion named Duncan Abdallah, a son of Blackwood Abdallah. The latter was an American stallion bred by Mr. Bryan Hurst, of Lexington, which passed through the hands of Mr. B. J. Treacy and Mr. Robert Wilkin, eventually being secured by Mr. Max Fried lander for his Ashburton stud. The outcome of the mating of Duncan Abdallah and Charity was a filly afterward known as Wisconsin. For some

years Wisconsin did duty as a shepherd's hack, and she could show plenty of speed on the roads at the trotting gait. Always a keen judge of horseflesh, Mr. F. C. Forbes was eventually attracted by thi3 mare and he became her owner for the modest sum of £10, with saddle and cover thrown in. On putting Wisconsin into work for the local trotting fixtures, Mr. Forbes soon discovered that he possessed something above the average of country-trained ones. With her new owner in the saddle Wisconsin won three races at the non-totalisator meetings held in 1010 at Amuri and Culverdon, while in her only other start she finished second. • On the" latter occasion she was ridden by F. Holmes, who was unlucky enough to get badly left. Wisconsin, who showed plenty of thoroughbred blood, and was as game as the proverbial pebble, next .attracted the attention of Mr. "Jack" Coffey, who feecured her from Mr. Forbes at £40. She did 110 good for her new owner on the tracks, and was then sent to the stud. Her first consort was that great racehorse King Cole 2.8 3-5, a son of the sensational Ribbonwood 2.S and Kola Nut, 'whose dam, Kola, was out of a thoroughbred, mare. • The outcome _of this mating was Ivy Cole, a good-looking sort, but nothing great 011 the race tracks. She in turn was bred to Logan Pointer and' the produce was the presentday champion, Harold Logan. With the blood strains of Logan Pointer, King Cole, Ribbonwood, Wildwood, and Blackwood Abdallah, Harold Logan lacks Jiothing on the score of breeding. It is the thoroughbred blood he inherits through his grandam and great-grandam, however, that furnishes his wonderful .stamina and contributes so largely .to his great gameness.