RACING Star Kingdom Tops Sires List Again

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29942, 2 October 1962, Page 6

RACING Star Kingdom Tops Sires List Again

(From the Aartrolwi Correspondent Of -The Press") .

SYDNEY. The Statistical Abstract of the Etoooiiorse Breeders’ Association of Australia' is just out Star Kingdom (son. of Stardust, son of Hyperion) . topped the list of Sires of winners for the fourth time to succession. He did not go to toe stud till 1951. Wilke. (Fr.) (by Court Martial) again topped the list of winning two-year-olds, aggregating £27,700 against £3MM last year, star Kingdom. which topped this list for five successive years, has dropped back to fourth this time. Ogoglto (by Naarullah imp.) .-and fkfcnundo ** Some think. that Star Kingdom (imp.) is "on the toboggan." Not at aH! Still only 18 years old, he is anything but finished. His. comparative Isdt of young winners is due to the fact that, Mr A. O. Ellison dispersed hlg stud 1 a few years ago. Although' be still tlae • few fine mares. Star Kingdom '(imp.i arid Todmaii have to rely largely nowadays «on outside mares—at 800 guineas for each successful Service. In Australia the smaU breeders ate not so conspicuously successful as they are to New | Zealand. The professional studs with such stallions as Wilkes) Edmundo. High Peak. Rego. NUo (now re-exported) and others fill the yearlings sale catalogue overwhelmingly in most states. Star Kingdom (imp.) is represented by 38 winners of 85 races worth £74.5®. A magnificent feat is the gaining of second place by the New Zealand Stallion Summertime (imp.) with 31 winners, in Australia, for 70 •races worth £73.314. The next New Zealand stallion on the list is Tsaoko. though some of his winners were Australian-bred. He is to twelfth place. Gabador,

RuthleSg and KntebEs Unmanro have been worthily repreeented over -here too. They are on the featured list. Greater prominence of New Zealand stallions on the list of dams of winners would necessitate the importation to Australia of many more fillies purchased. generally sat the Trentham yearling sales. Hello (imp.), Le Grand Due (Fr.). Brueghel nt.). Midstream (Imp.), S&lar Bear (imp.), are the tops, with Foxbridge (etohtb). Balloch (tenth), and Neptune (seventeenth). two Targui (imp.) horses, Stradown and Lord, were beaten into third positions in tile Invitation Stakes (Seven furlongs), and the Underwood Stakes (10 furlongs), last Thursday, two New Zealand horses .won their races at Caulfield. Mr K. S. Humphreys worn the Metropolitan Handicap, of 12 furlongs, with Urskkm an aged gelding by Alonzo (imp.) (sire of Rising Fast) from Ursa by Red Mars imp. (sire of Redcraze imp). The winner was bred by Mr W. R. Stead at Sasanof stud. Hartings. Both Alonzo (imp) and Red Mars (Imp.), like Targui (imp,), .were imported by Mr Stead. Gallant Quest, by Marco Polo □ into., from Silk Line, won the Anglesey Handicap of 10 furlongs. Another New Zealand horse. Jerkin, won toe Second Spring Stakes, for three-year-olds. He beat into minor places, youngsters by Wilkes (Fr.), and Pipe o’ Peace (imp.), both of which have had many winners during the area on. Pipe o’ Peace (imp.) got hardly a winner last year, but his second crop are winning with remaricable brilliance and consistency. His first crop, now three-year-olds, are also coming Into their own.