Dogger Bank Dead

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31234, 5 December 1966, Page 6

Dogger Bank Dead

Dogger Bank, sire of the winners of more than £225.000, was found dead in his paddock at the Riccarton Stud on Friday. The 20-year-old Englishbred was in robust health until the day of his death. It was found that he had ruptured a heart artery. Dogger Bank, whose parents Fairway and Herringbone both won the English St. Leger, won the Princess of Wales Stakes at Newmarket,

beating the top-class winner Black Tarquin. Mr J. G. Alexandra-, proprietor of the Cranleigh Stud, bought Dogger Bank for a substantial five-fig-ure sum. and later leased him to Mr G. H. Murfitt Ju nr., for the Riccarton Stud. Some of Dogger Bank's best winners were The W'ash (Brisbane Cup, Queensland Derby, Queensland St. Leger and £16,000); Juventas (Can-

tcrbury Cup, 13 other races and £11.6011): Shoal (15 wins and £10.195); Drum Roll (14 wins and £10.810); the Desert Gold Stakes winner Sigh; the Wellington Thompson Handicap winner, Lion; Goudvink, winner of 13 races including the Wellington Metropolitan Handicap; Ringbank (23 wins in Australia); Te Poi (A.J.C. Roncaster Handicap); and Careen (Hawke’s Bav Guineas, C.J.C. Winter Cup).