Record In First Season

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31237, 8 December 1966, Page 4

Record In First Season

(From the Australian corres-

pondent of “The Press")

SYDNEY.

Competition in Australian studs is getting keener and keener, particularly in the two-year-old field.

Last season Renegade was represented for the first time on the racecourses, and wound up the year with a record. Renegade, the sire of 13 winners of 24 races, easily took the honours among the new sires and, moveover, finished second on the list to Coronation Boy in stake winnings. But he easily beat that tried stallion in other departments, for Coronation Boy had 10 individual winners of 21 races, eight erf them, and nearly all his stake-money, being won by Storm Queen.

Indications are that it is going to be very different this season, for already there are eight new sires on the winning list, probably in itself a record so early in the season.

Three of them come from South Australia, a state forging ahead in the breeding industry. They are Felix (by Supreme Court), Buck’s King (by Grey Sovereign), and Romantic (by Princely Gift).

Three are from New South Wales—Sostenuto (by Never Say Die), Ruler (by Nasrallah) and Writ of Error (by King’s Bench), which unfortunately died after leaving only one crop.

Two of the sires are based in Victoria—Latin Lover (by Ribot) and Court Sentence (by Court Martial). Last year only Renegade represented the new season’s

sires in the first 20. If the pattern of the early two-year-old racing is followed it is most improbable that his record will be threatened. More new stallions will be represented at the forthcoming yearling sales in all states. With so many young sires about it is not surprising that the December sales in England, which just closed, were more or less neglected by Australian buyers. There was one buyer, however, Mr R. Watson, who has set up a stud at Cobbitty, with Sovrango. He bought the grey three-year-old, Corinto, for 6500 guineas. Corinto is by Grey Sovereign from Mistress Gwynne, a mare by Ghanteur II from Daring Miss, by Felicitation.

Corinto won one race from three starts as a two-year-old, and in the season just dosed

in England won two races at Ascot—the Britannia Stakes and the William Hill Gold Cup. His dam has produced two winners, and his grand-dam eight, among them the good performer, Gay Time, which was bought at a very high price to go to the stud in Japan. The family is that of Lost Soul, the mare which set the racing fortunes of the late Major Holliday at a high level.