WELL-BRED FAIRWAY SIRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1936, Page 15

WELL-BRED FAIRWAY SIRE

Cheveley Lad, who cost Mr. Martin Benson 5300 guineas as a yearling, was to have been offered at the Newmarket sales in England at the end' of September. He, however, did not go to ■the sales, as. he had been sold for export to Australia as a stallion. He was purchased by Mr. P. H. Osborne, and will join John Buchan at Willeroo, in New South Wales.

Cheveley Lad was bred by Lord Furness, and us a yearling was one of the most fancied at the Doncaster sales. He was sent to Beckhampton to be trained by Fred Darling, and as a two-year-old he had only one race when very backward. He raced a few times this year without success, so his racing record was not impressive, but it was quite as good as that of Tredennis, who was a shocking failure as a racehorse,, but became one of the best sires of his time.

Tredennis demonstrated the truth of the axiom that blood will tell, as he was a beautifully bred horse, and that may also be said of Cheveley Lad. Fairway, the sire of Cheveley Lad, has assumed the mantle of Blandford as the leading English sire. That part of his pedigree is beyond reproach, and the same may be said of that of his dam (French Haste), who is by Hurry On, a great racehorse and equally great sire, from Touraine, a half-sister by Swynford to the Derby winner Captain Cuttle.