FROM STUD AND STABLE Brisbane Cup Revived Memories Of Big Upset

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32018, 19 June 1969, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Brisbane Cup Revived Memories Of Big Upset

Galleon Klng’a win In the Brisbane Cap on Monday revived mom* ork® of one of the greatest surprises in the Wellingon Cup. The Briebane Cup winner was sired by Golden Galleon, which waa the outsider of a field of 19 when he won his Wellington Cup at odds of more than 110 to one in 1956. Golden Galleon escaped all trouble In a roughly run race that year and lasted to win by a long head from Sombrero.

The winner and runner-up were trained by P. Burgees although Golden Galleon had not long left E. Temperton’s Awapuni stable when he brought off his big surprise When Hot Drop beat the Riccarton-trained Tamrtn in the Telegraph Handicap that day he completed a double worth £2310 12a South Island winners on that programme were Hush Money (Wellington Stakes), Americus (Camp Handicap) and Ma Reine (Anniversary Handicap). Ma Reine only nosed out Sir William, then trained at Ricearton, in the last race on the card. Golden Galleon was raced by Sir Matthew Oram, of Palmerston North, who bred Galleon King and prepared him for the 1965 yearling mim atTrentham. - He bred Galleon King from the Imported King Legend mare, King’s DMre, which raced only twice.

The next dam, Aragon, did not race, but her half-sister Lady Sybil, was a good winner and came in for much attention in the Southern Hemisphere as the dam of the successful sire Count Rendered. She is also the second dam of the recent importation Greek God. Later Count Rendered was to become the sire of another Lady iSybil. which won the V.R.C. Oaks and othet races in Australia before being sold to the United States. The family to which Galleon King belongs was also responsible for the great stayer, St Paddy, which won the Derby, the St Leger, Eclipse Stakes, six other raees and approximately £lOO,OOO. Altogether there were few crumbs of comfort for Aus-

tralitn breeder! at the Britbane carnival. Prince Medea winner of the Btradbroke last Saturday it Mother New Zealand-bred. Being by AlcimedM Out of a mare by Balloch, the next dam by Foxbridge, one might have thought Prince Medes would stay rather than sprint. But he showed biasing speed to run a course record of Imin 22.8 sec in the Stradbroke. Although' Prince Modes’! family has been noted more for its ttayert than its sprinters Shirley Fox, the granddam, was good over the shorter courses. Good Member One of. the most distinguished members of this family was Maniapoto, which won the A.J.C. Metropolitan In 1905, the year of the first full-scale Invasion by Now Zealand horaoe. That year they won 11 raees on the four days of the AJ.C. meeting including the Derby with Noetuiform. On Stradbroke day Heroic Isle and Roman Consul rammed home two more lessons about the qualities of the New Zealand-brods.

Heroic Isle (Beau Diable— Fair Isle) won the Sires’ Produce Stakes and Roman Consul (Agricois—Jinks) ths O'Shea stakes.