HOW NIGHT RAID WAS BRED.
When in the rostrum at the Elderslie sale last week Mr. Ken Austin related the story about the breeding of Sentiment, the (lain of Night Raid. Both Spearmint and Flair were in the same stable when being trained lor the Derby of 1806. Flair was superior to Spearmint and regarded as a good thing for the Blue Ribbon, but unfortunately she went . amiss. Luckily Spearmint trained on well and proved equal to winning the Derby and Grand Prix de Paris. The one-time stablemates were then mated, with the result that Flair produced Sentiment, hence the name. Sentiment in turn was bred to Radium, and hence we have Xight Raid, the sire of the phenomenal Phar Lap.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1932, Page 14
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