A FAMILY TREE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 13 November 1930, Page 14

A FAMILY TREE.

NIGHTMARCH and his ancestors. 1780 TO 1930. DEBT TO DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. (»P*OI4LI.T WiITTER »OR ME PE-®»8.) [Br Hugh M. lUuvbs.] A hundred and fifty years ago—to be preoise in the year 1780—-tho Duke of Cumberland, son of the Duke of Culloden fame, or ill-fame (you can take yotlr choice), bred a marc nanned Hose. To Buzzard, Boge produced a filly who, mated with Soothsayer, gave birth to a fllly. This filly, Manto by name, was the first thoroughbred tnare taken to Australia.

Before leaving England in 1824, at tho age of three, Manto visited the stallion Young Grasshopper, and a few days alter she reached Sydney she foaled a filly. Through this filly, Cordelia, some thousand Australian and New Zealand thoroughbred horses trace their origin to Manto. Cordelia bred prolifically i* her new home ( and among her numerous foals was a filly named Mora Mclvor by ftous's Emigrant. Like many of the successful brood mares of her time, Flora Molvor lived long and bred freely, tn Australia she had eleven foals of which there are records, but as her breeding records were very carelessly kept it Is probable that she h&d several more.

Oohtact With Hew Bttlutf. Then, whan she was well over 80 years of age, Mr Henry Redwood bought her and brought her to Now Zealand. She presented him with three foals, the last when she waa About 20 years old. They were Chevallier, a colt by Lawson's Tros, an<d the sisters Io and Waimea. Sir Horeules.the aire of lo and Waimea, Was bred In England, whence he Was exported to New South Wales. Befora paying a brief visit to New Zealand, where besides lo and he got Otto, the winner of the Second Canterbury Derby, and other successful race* horses, he had covered Flora Melvor for several seasons, and had got from her "Honest John" Tait's celebrated mare Zoe, a winner of many races—among them the second Australian, New SJealnndy and Tasmani&fi Champion Race, the most valuable prise of that tifiie la the cdlonie*. Before to Went to the stud, Mr Bed« wood sold her to Mr C. Reynolds, of Tocal, New South Wales. She had her htit foal in 1861, when she wa? six years old. In 1865 she was mated with New Warrior, ail imported horse by Pyrffaui I. The result was a filly which, following the bad practice common to that time, was named Also Flora McIvor. Mr Reynolds kept this Flora M«Iror. He mated Her Several times with that great rbcehorse ahd b&d iire, 'tHi Barb, ahd once with imported kelpie. He Sent her neit to Sylvia's febii, borough and Frailty was the result. Bought by Mr T. Motrin, Frailty rekcß<i3 Auckland when threfe ySara til age. eihb lost no time in achieving success at the Stud. He* fifSt foal w&s Newt oh. Then followed Niagara, Cuirassier, Ciisjr, Zalihski; H&vde, Ldncaiter, and Siege Guti, All racfehorses of more thaii average merit.

Eatiy Wittfcet*. Mr ftedwobd kept Wai&ea. From hor lie bred Manuka and PSp&pa, -winners a! the Cfeftterbtiry iJerfcy, ana &atiri, Bdtharama, and iMrfelMK VrttifiSfa* thotiffa iibt of claiSid rices. , Four 6f Waiinea *6 daughtjstS tverd Tol-toi, Haraieke, Waifeui, aa<l wtil-itl. All left a mark ijfi the Stiia Sbok, W&l-iti pfodiieii# iHiiSiilltde, wM& won the New Zealand Cup of 1885. In the early volumes of tii6 Hew Zealand Hbokj b|r HiomecleS, dptifeiirfea 48 out hi Wjiimefe; About 20 y tsarS ago this wu fbuAd 'to be ifteorreet, and investigation showed thdt Benga #ag out of a mate aimed PhoisbS, and that Waimea's foal born in 18(59 was ft&ilgb, Who hitherto had been credited to Phoebe. Ifaupo's first foal was Mata, by Dead Shot. He wafl a first-clasS rfccehOrge, and eotild st&y as well as sprint, AS a. three-year-old he w;on the Canterbury Jockey Cltib Handicap (afterwards the New Zealand Cup), of IS?7. He also won the Dunedin Cup twice. Had he iiot been disqualified for, I think, a year, duririg a visit to AiiStrilift, his record would httve been a great deal better than it was. Baupo's thitd foal was a filly by Dftniel O'Roilrke (by imported.Sledmere), winner of the Canterbury JJerby and Canterbury Cup, of 1878, i'he itifldlepark Stud Company of Canterbury bought her* named l)er and began breeding firom her, when she 'fras three years bid. Her fifth foal, born in 1888, was Huguenot, a filly by imported Ajprfeihdnti She raced with somg stlccesS for I£r Jbhn Stephenson &nti his partndf. 3ir Hazlett, the fathir oi Messrs ■#. T. and L. d. H&zlett. At the end of her racing career Sir J. F. Rfeid bought her and she joined the Eliiersli'e stud. Her ilrkt fbal was borti dead. Next ckttie a filly by Medalliofi, I named Merifeette.

Then in succession followed two fillies by Stepniak. Mr G. G. Stead bought the. younger as a yearling fot- oOghS) and named her Nantes. As a tWo-yoar-old she yrott fbr him the Midsummer Handicap rit Auckland and the C.J.C. Lyttelton Plate. Then he offered her at aiictiorii arid Mr G. U. Dalget? bought hef fbr 135gn$. A fortnight after the sale Mr Dalgety feot sohio of his outlay back, wlieti She wtiti a Flying Handicap, 6f 30 Sora, at AshbiiKori, bilt this waS all she returned him as a fitfeehofiib. As & three-year-bid she Iflfised to feellih'i plate forhi; StJ Mr BalgetJ' tiiftiM lie# out of training; M fifet alia sSc=

ond foals, by unfashionable stalliohs, &'ere hbt jnuch £o6d. Then Cable Print (by Pilgrifarg a good inafe, who won the Dunedifi Cup, and then a better, Aftillerie, who ifrott thte Oaks, and after Mr Dalgety Sold her, sbmts itn£bftaht fades in Australia! Mar tyro, Nftntfes's first foal b& Mfertiaiij showed st» much edrly promise that Mr .Dalgety was able to sell her to an Australian for ISiodgnS; Ab far as I can recollect; he got the of itif> bargain, because Martyre was a failure, both oh th© Tiirf and at the Stud.

Mar&a Arrives. Two years after foaliJig Martyre, Nantes produced another filly by M&ftian. This was Marsa. She started well bV wihhihg th 6 Dtirtedin (noW the Mciig&n Stakes), bbt she was taJttplaced ih each of the other races—live in all—in which she started as a her to Mr tl._ G. Taylor, who next ran her ih 13 ta<Ses, tw : 6 of which she wbn. Bv the following; fedn she had becoriie the firoferty of Mr Hyrnfer, for whotti she won the Waifio Chii and the Dufledin iheh's Handicap, under a light weight. An easy season In Mr D ; P ; Wiwoh's nomination followed. Then catne a very strenuous one, in which she Started in ho less than 24 races, and ■fron fiv-e, including the Tihiaru Cu.P and the Dunedin Anniversary Handicap. Mr Wolsey Kain was her next owner. For him she ran 30 races ih two seasons, winning the Kiverton, lufefbftrgill, ahd Southland Cus>. In 1919 she left the Turf, Her first foal, Full Swing, Was boi-fl in 1920. Brightliner. her secoiid, followed in 1B2"2. In 1025 came her third, Niehtmarch. Before Morsa went to the Stud, M* George Kain became a partner in her, and .thfe Brothers share the honour of having bred Nightmarch. Mr George Kain raced him a* a Mw-

and ,tol3 Bwi »H year-old to Mf ■ !of Mr Geoi-gfe Kain. jtjSjSH H sole oWh@r, MarSa hj(& frfljEsHgjß the last Wb veari. TwrafeMjM M for the New TXealaila H with another Nlfehtmttfffl- .jßgjß H