UNDER MANY OWNERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 10

UNDER MANY OWNERS

ROYAL LINEAGE'S CAREER

Big tilings were once anticipated from Hoyal Lineage on" -the .flat, -but,, like so many of the Limonds, ho was not an easy horse to train and he failed to achieve them. It is now possible, however, that he will make some : compensation by earning the highest hurdling honours in the Dominion when he, goes out to contest the Grand National nest-week.

As a. yearling he was highly rated by Mr. G. IVI.' Currie, who bred him, and by the stud grooni, Mr. ■J, Low, and it was the. latter who purchased him for 210 guinea's when he was offered at a sale of the -Koatanui yearlings nt Wanganui iv 1926. In ,a few starts as a two-year-old he was a shade'disappointing, and in the late; summer Mr. Low sold him to Sir, F. G. Bee, of Napier, who handed him to P. P. Neagle to train. Mr. Bee died a month or two after buying him, ami Mrs. Bee then sold a half-interest in him to Neagle, who took him down to the. Grand National Meeting .. the following August and won the Cashmere Plate, with him. He did not do much further racing that term, but .the next season he started 19 times and he wou. ut Ellersb'e and Woodville. Neagle then'bought out Mrs. Bee's halfinterest and he won two more races with him as a five-year-old (when he was still entire).. The next season he could not be produced, and Neagle sold him to Mr. !W. C. Whitfield, of Napier, in Dec-em-ber, 1931, who handed him to A. G. Dbcon to' train at Gisbornc.

i He "was seven years old when Mr. Whit- [ field first raced him and he soon made a return of his purchase price by winning a hurdles double at Napier Park in March and a highweight at Hastings, all in lino. He was-now gelded, but he evidently was still proving a hard horse to keep right, as it was twelve mouths before he raced again. In March last year Mr. Whitfield gave him to Mr. W. Wilson, of Gisborne (the -owner of Gainsfid, Kahuuoke, etc.), [and Mr. Wilson won a hurdles double with him at the. Poverty. Bay Winter iMeoting in the two starts he hud in that season. 11. D. McPhcrson wag then training him. He also ran second over hurdles | at the Poverty Bay Hunt Meeting last: August, but he then remained oil the Iscene till he reappeared recently at Napier Park. \ Meanwhile Mr. Wilson had Ig^'ven a half-share in him back to Mr. j Whitfield, and D. N. Duckcr was allowed [the training of him. At Treuthain last month he won one of the hurdles and was twice placed, and in his only starts since, [ho won at the Hawke's Bay Hunt and-j-'was second at the Christchureli Hunt last I Saturday. . . .:

There is much attractive breeding about iljoyal Lineage. He is the first of tho few Limonds to have been jumped, tho only other pair that can bo brought to mind as having raced over hurdles being his younger full-brother. -Eoyal-'Limoiut,-aiid Euariui. His dam. is tho-King llufusmare Koyal Exchange, who was a fair winner on the'flat and a 1 hurdle winnerl at Trentham, and the branch of tho Mermaid family through which she descends1 has produced several excellent horses, including the jumper Slump, Cold . Steel (Wanganui Cup), Bronsteil, Mountain Top/High Finance, Anthonie, Stronghold' (D.J.C. 'and C.J.C. Champagne Stakes), Guidwife" (Wellington Stakes). Fleetfoot (Wellington and Wellesley Stakes and. Great Northern Foal Stakes), Broadsword (A.J.G. Doncaster), etc. It is a coincidence that both Royal Lineage and Royal Limond should be in next week's Grand National field, and they have ample breeding credentials in favour of their prospects.