DEATH OF NORDENFELDT.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9127, 11 June 1895, Page 3

DEATH OF NORDENFELDT.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 10. The stallion Nordenfeldt is dead. He wrenched his back while gallopitig in the paddock. The death of the famous racehorse ami stud horee Nordenfeldt. reported above, cannot but be looked upon as as great a loss to the colonies aa that of Carbine, whose expatriation will now be more than ever felt. True the son of Musket and Onyx did not have a long career on the turf, but his Hawkesbury Produce Stakes, Australian Jockey Club's Derby, Craven Stakes, Maiden Plate, Randwic* Plate (three miles) and Victorian R. C. Derby victories proved him a good one, and his prominent position in the Melbourne Cup, and hia second to Trenton in the Canterbury Flate were the performances of a racehorse. It was owing to his great gameness that hs was nicknamed " The Bulldog," and the then trainer to the Hon. James White, Mr M. Fennelly, said, whea asked which he considered the best of all the good horsee he had trained, that Nordenfeldt was the one. As a sire he was a great success, and the mantle of his illustrious scion Musket, it can be said, was well carried by his son, who was re-purchased to take that horse's place at Sylvia Park. The number of winners by Nordenfeldt is large, too large to produce here, but such horses as Strathmore, Carnage, Havoc, Zalinski, Merganser, The Possible, North Atlantic, Cracksuot, Medallion, Rosefeldt, Stepniak, Elswick, and Melinite are amongst) the chief advertisements he put forward, and altogether the winnings of his progeny will total little short of £50,000. Mr S. Hordern, w,ho purchased Nordenfeldt at the breaking up of the Sylvia Park stud, paid 5600g5. for him, a price which was at the time thought high in the colonies, though the New South Wales stud master could afterwards have sold him for nearly double that sum. Nordenfeldt was foaled in 1882, and waa therefore comparatively speaking a young horse.