BRED FOR STAYING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 105, 30 October 1935, Page 8

BRED FOR STAYING

CAULFIELD CUP WINNER

DAM WAS ONLY A PONY

■'By winning. this year's Caulfield Cup the Son o' Mine colt Palfresco added liis name to a distinguished list of horses'that as three-year-olds have been successful in the principal V.A.T.C. event. Until this year no three-year-old had scored since Whittier carried Mr. Ben Chaffey's colours to the fore in 1922. Like Whittier, Palfresco is a sturdy little brown colt, and he is bred on great staying lines (says the Melbourne writer "Beacon"). _ Palfresco was bred by Fred Garland, who won a number of races -with -the dam, Little Millie. This mare began her successful career in 14.2 events, and though she outgrew that height she was never a big mare. She did well m middle-distance events against much bigger horses, and she raced until she was rising eight years. The last race she won was the V.A.T.C. Ormond Stakes, in November, 1926. After three more races she was retired from the Turf. Garland sent her to the late Mr. Norman Falkiner's Noorilim Stud, and there she remained until that stud was dispersed. After three Or four years at Noorilim she was transferred to Mr. Sol Green's Underbank Stud at Bacchus Marsh, where she has been ever since. This season Little Millie is being mated with Mr. Green's latest importation, Lo Zingaro, a half-brother to the successful St. Albans sire Gay Lothario. ,: PROMISING AS JUVENILE. Palfresco, who was Little Millie's fourth foal and her first by Son o' Mine, well paid his way as a two-year-old last season. He won a two-year-old handicap at Mentone and the V.A.T.C. Holiday Stakes. In his last two races as a youngster he ran third to Young Idea and Homer in the YJI.C. Sires Produce Stakes, and, with 9.1, ran Carnarvon (8.3) to half a length in a division of the Gibson Carmichael Stakes. "■' . ■At his first start this season the colt finished strongly with 3.2 to run second to The Chanter (8.9) in the Chatsworth Plate at the V.A'.T.C. August Meeting. He was then fourth in the Underwood Stakes, sixth in the Memsie Stakes, fifth in the Moonee Valley Stakes, fifth in the Stand Handicap division won by The Trump from Panto and Burlesque, and fifth in the Caulfield Stakes won by Feldspar-from Charles Fox and Marabou. '; In the Caulfield Cup lie brilliantly outstayed all these horses, except The Trump,,who had gone amiss and could not run. The pedigree of this colt is a typical staying chart. His sire, Son o' Mine, never won a race, but he proved he had plenty of stamina by being one of the last into the straight for the Melbourne Cup, and then running third with 8.0 to Trivalve (7.6) and Silvius (7.7). The previous Saturday Son o' Mine, who was only a three-year-old to English time, had run second to Silvius for the Moonee Valley Cup. Shortly afterwards he went amiss, and could not be trained again. HIS -MATERNAL ANCESTRY. Little Millie, his dam, was a daughter of the imported Marco horse Bronzino, who was a good staying ■ three-year-old and cost Sir Samuel Horden a high price in England. As a rule the Bronzino stock were soft, but mated with the toughly-bred Posadena he got a hardy mare in Little Millie. Bronzino's best winner was Bronzetti, who was a. three-year-old when he won the Gaulfield Cup in 1917. Bronzetti was sire of Mister Gamp, who won the Grand Northern Hurdles in the Dominionj : , Little Millie's grandam Notre Dame was sister to that fine staying mare Mira, raced about thirty years-ago by Mr. E. L. Baillieu and the late Mr. L. K. S. Mackinnon. Notre Dame was by Malvolio from My Lady, by Trenton from the V.R.C. Oaks winner Pardon, by Yattendon. Here is stout staying blood. Yattendon, a great stayer, sired such Melbourne Cup winners as Chester and Grand Flaneur. Trenton <by Carbine's sire, Musket) was narrowly beaten in two Melbourne Cups. Malvolio won the Melbourne Cup, and was by the Melbourne Cup winner Malua. ■ , Notre Dame's first foal was that good Bobadil gelding Conge d'Eslire. In her third stud season she was mated with Pqsitano, sire of four Melbourne Cup winners—Lord Cardigan, Poseidon, Lord Nolan, and Piastre—and she foaled the filly Posadena. Positano fillies were notoriously of little worth as racehorses, but put to Bronzino Posadena dropped Little Millie, who in turn has produced-Palfresco. A strong feature of Palfresco's pedigree is Galopin. He gets three strains through Galopin's unbeaten son St. Simon, the sire of Chaucer and Positano, and also of Altcar's sire Persimmon. Other horses in the pedigree each with a strain of Galopin are Bay Ronald, Matchmaker, Fowlingpiece, and Flitters. There are also two crosses of Musket through Fowlingpiece (son 6t Carbine and a Galopin mare) and Trenton. . . • It was a curious coincidence that ■ Fidelity, the Mona Nursery winner on Caulfield Cup' day, should have been bred on much the same lines as Palfresco. Palfresco's sire, Son o' Mine, was-got by Son-in-Law from a daughter of Chaucer; and his third dam was by Malyolio from a daughter of Trenton. Fidelity's sire is by Son-in-Law from a granddaughter of Chaucer; and her third dam, Elvo, is by Malvolio from a Trenton mare.