ST. LEGER WINNER

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 13

ST. LEGER WINNER

BOSWELL AND HIS LINES

Boswell, surprise winner of the St. Leger Stakes last week, is the third horse to have succeeded in this classic for an American owner. The other pair were Iroquois in 1881 and Tracery in 1912. Boswell's owner, Mr. W. Woodward, is chairman of the New York Jockey Club, and he is one of America's leading breeders and owners, but he also races a fairly extensive team in England each year, mainly of his own breeding on his English estates, though Omaha this year was sent over from America after winning last year's Kentucky Derby. Boswell is by the Son-in-Law stallion Bosworth from Flying Gal 11, by Sir Gallahad 111 (son of Teddy) from Filante, by Sardanapale from High Flyer, by Flying Fox from Altesse. by Amphion. The family is the No. 20, to which Cuddle belongs,, though it is necessary to go back eight generations to find the common ancestress, the' Oaks winner Ghuznee. The best horse of this family to have come out to New Zealand was the great sire Traducer.- Its' last- classic ■ winner- .was Tagalie, who won the Derby in 1912. Boswell is the first classic'• winner sired by Bosworth, who "was bred by Lord Derby in 1926.. Bdsworth. is also the, sire of Plassy, who won the Jockey Club Stakes last year. He mas named after the famous battle in the Wars of the Roses, on which field the house; of Stanley received its' present title. Bosworth won the St. George Stakes at Liverpool as a three-year-old, and, was beaten a short head by Trigo in the St. Leger. The following year he won the Ascot Gold Cup. He belongs to Lord Derby's celebrated branch of the No. 6 family, and is by Son-in-Law from Serenissima, by Minoru from Gondolette, by Loved One. Gpndolette was dam of the Derby winner Sansovino, and Serenissima was darn of the St. Leger and One Thousand Guineas winner Tranquil and grandam !of the Derby and St.'Leger winner Hyperion. Bcswell was bred by Mr. Woodward, as was his dam, Flying Gal 11, who won important races . for her, breeder as a two-year-old in America. . Sir Gallahad 111 was bred in France by Mr. Jefferson Cohn and had a distinguished race record. As- a three-year-old he won the French Twa Thousand Guineas and next season had avery easy win in the Lincolnshire Handicap and later beat the brilliant Epinard in a match over six and a half furlongs. After a season at the stud in France he was sold to the American breeder Mr. A. B. Hancock. His son Gallant Fox is now doing splendid service for Mr. Woodward at his Maryland stud, U.S.A., being the sire of Omaha, Granville, and Perifox.