A FINE STUD MATRON

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1932, Page 21

A FINE STUD MATRON

MADOWLA'S GREAT RECORD

LIVING REPRESENTATIVES

The death of Mr. John Cunningham, which occurred at Melbourne early this week, recalls memories of that great' brood mare. Madowla, one of the best taproots that the Stonyhurst Stud has had. Mr. Cunningham, says "Hurry On," in. an interesting and informative article, was a close friend of Mr. H. E. Wanklyn, and it was through the offices of Mr. Wanklyn that he was commissioned to buy some mares in, Victoria for the late Sir George Clifford. One of these was the Trenton mare Madowla, who was sold at the St. Albang stud dispersal sale, following the death of Mr. W. R. Wilson in 1899. As was the case of nearly all the stud purchases of Sir George, Madowla was out of an imported mare, Azalea, who was by Galliard from Lilian, by Wingrove from Lady Blanche, by Voltiger from Lan«ar, by Clinker from Bronze. Bronze was one of the great taproots of the number two family, and through Bronze have come those great performers, The Tetrarch, Gainsborough, Pietermaritzburg, and Diadem. With such blood as this in her veins it is small wonder that Madowla was the success that she was at the stud. She was undoubtedly one of the most prolific and most wonderfully consistent matrons in the New Zealand "Stud Book." From 1900 to ISO 9 she produced a foal every season, and each and every one of them won races, most of them good races. She slipped her 1810 foal, but was subsequently served each season till she died in 1915. She missed only in 1914. MADOWLA'S PROGENY. The first foal she produced in New Zealand was Quarryman to Bill of Portland. Quarryman was more than useful, winning, among other races, the Hawkeß Bay Guineas and the Wanganui Cup, and he was third, conceding weight to both, to Noctuiform and Paritutu in the New Zealand Cup. Madowla's nest foal was King's Guest, also to Bill of Portland, but though he won several races he was nothing out of the ordinary. In 1902 and 1903 she produced fillies to Clanranald, and these two, Glenowlet and Kirriemuir, won many races for Sir George. Glenowlet won among others the D.J.C, Champagne Stakes. Kirriemuir was probably the fastest two-year-old the baronet ever owned. She had six starts at that age for five wins and a third. She simply made exhibitions of her fields and won the Great Northern Foa] Stakes by ten lengths. However, she did not train on and her racing career was closed after her Champagne Stakes win at Eiccarton at Easter. The next of Madowla's progeny waa Glenculloch, also by Clanranald, and ho too proved a good stake'winner, the Great Northern Foal Stakes, the North Island Challenge Stakes, and the Middle Park Plate being his most important wins. In 1905 came Discipline, a filly by Treadmill, and she won both events in which she started as a two-year-old and did very little racing afterwards. Taskmaster, by Treadmill, was the next foal, and, though no champion, he won, among other races, the St. Andrew's Handicap at Feilding and the Consolation Handicap at the Wellington Summer Meeting. Madowla was then served by Clanranald again and produced Madam Madcap, who was a really good two-year-old, winning, among other races, the Middle Park Plate, in which she beat Danube, and the C.J.C. Champagne Stakes. A full brother, Masterpiece, also by Clanranald, was the next, and he was a good horse, winning the New Zealand Derby, the Wanganui Stakes, tho .D.J.C. Stakes, the Hawkes Bay Burke Memorial, the W.R..C. Consolation, and the C.J.C. Sockburn. After his win in the New Zealand Derby he was sent out a good favourite for the Great Northern event, but he was not seen at his best and failed to finish in a place, the winner, being hie stablemate, the redoubtable filly, Counterfeit. Madowla produced three other living foals, but they were not of much account. Her wonderful record lost none of its glamour through their failure. SUBSEQUENT GENERATIONS. It may be noted that none of her fillies has succeeded in achieving anything like the complete renown at the stud that she did, though some of them have certainly left occasional classic and weight-for-age winners. Glenowlet waa the dam of the New Zealand Oaks winner, Brown Owl, also of Wuse Bird and Owlscombe (C.J.C. Champagne Stakes), and Kirriemuir produced Royal Stag, winner of the G.N. Derby, also Moorfqwl, Red Hind, and Wild Hind (D.J.C. Guineas). Discipline left Adjutant (Middle Park Plate), Court Martial, and Dame Straightlace, and Mad Whirl v™ the dam of Onslaught and Scrimmage. J.he family is still going strong, however, and it will not surprise if other nrst^class horses arise ia the present generations. Wise Bird has probably been best_ represented to date in the third generation, as she is the dam of Wise Force an excellent winner in Queensland and' Victoria, and the victor of Amounis and Waterhne. Other useful recent representatives have been Winsome Hind, Moorbird,. Owlsflight, and Fleeting Glance in *ne Dominion, and Chanticleer, Civetta Gay Galah Wise Syce, and Sage Bird (al through Wise Bird), also Hurly Burly, in Australia. It will be seen that the line is far from being moribund, and some of the mares now racing or recently gone to the stud may shortly be instrumental in bringing new laurels to the family. Few families have been given such a splendid start at the stud as Madowla gave hers