GOOD BUT SLENDER LINE

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 6

GOOD BUT SLENDER LINE

: Candico, winner of the Prince of Wales Handicap at? Napier Park on Saturday, is'jelated to Silver Jubilee, who was,third'in the A.J.C. Epsom on the same day. Silver Jubilee is a six-year-old bay son of Rprheo and the Marble Arch mare Bouvardia, and Candico is a brown daughter of Nigger Minstrel and Bouvardia's Tea Tray daughter Tea Tattle. The family to which these horses belong, and also the promising three-year-old Begorrah (a half-brother by Lord Quex to Candico), as well as Barometer and Alonsoa (other halfrelatives to Silver Jubilee and Tea Tattle), traces to a mare named Winnie, the grandam of Bouvardia, and it is believed to have "originated in an Arab import, but full particulars about it; have never been ascertained. Win-nie-was bred by Major Lusk in the early eighties, and she was bred from by Mr. J. Roulston for over twenty years. Among her offspring were several great hurdlers, supreme among whom were St. Simon, a son of St. Leger who won the Great Northern i Hurdles with ■ 12.12, the record weight carried in that event, and Record Reign, a son of Castor, who carried the same weight in winning the Grand National Hurdles, also the record for th*t' race. Pansy and Ladybird, two mares, were also very successful hurdling daughters of Winnie. The line was; kept alive by the Messrs. Roulston, brothers through Pretoria, who did not race, and among other successful performers who have come | from it iri' recent years are Quincoma and Royal Doulton.- ■ ■ .