THE NATIONAL STUD

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 44, 21 February 1931, Page 19

THE NATIONAL STUD

WHY IRISH HORSES DO WELL

(From "The Post's" Representative.) j LONDON, 2nd January/ "Hotspur," th« racing correspondent of the "Daily Tslegraph," has been to Ireland, when? hfi visited the National Stud : aud th* Sheshoon Stud. The latter has '■beoa mado over by the Aga Khan to his Bon, Als Khan. Sir Henry Greer is director of the National Stud, whose splendid pastures '(says "Hotepur") practically ad£join the 1200 or 80 acres of the Sheshoon on the outskirts of The Cur- . rjgjh, so that, happily for the Aga Khan, Sir Henry was able to accept the general , managership and ito act in an c advisory ' The writer continues: 'One admires this example of the Aga Khan's shrewdness ■■i'a availing himself of the brains and the iTanique experience of one who was notably • successful on his otfn account in the days i'of the great Gallinule, from whom came ;fl3s St. Leger winner, Wildflower, and his |'Two Thousand Guineas winner, Sliete 'Gallion; and who ever since has been 1 Wcepted as one of the . greatest living | authorities on the breeding and rearing of "bloodstock. j "1 asked Sir Henry Greer to what lie .attributed the splendid growth and de-; ■fyelopment of horses reared in Ireland. It I know, hare been an unnecessary question at this time of day, but I thought '■'it would be interesting to have his "1 have no doubt,' he said, 'that horses do so well in Irclaud because the winters i/with us are milder than with you in liEngland, and we get more rain in sum&ner, so that our grass never suffers from fdrought. There is always plenty of good f-feed while the milder winters help horses '-to ''do," and assist in their growth in •pv. entirely normal way.' ' '~\ enppose the same thing applies to 'the climates of New Zealand and Australia. Horses bred in New Zealand, ■tohere there are more regular rain and 'less extremes of temperature, do well :>hen they are taken to race m Australia. . ' "Colonel Peacock, one time a very able Director of Remounts in India, and a fine judge of horses—with, of course, a big knowledge of breeding—is Sir' Henry Grace's right-hand man at Sheshoon.'- ,