OUTSIDE SIRES CHOSEN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 61, 9 September 1937, Page 13

OUTSIDE SIRES CHOSEN

Although he has three stallions at the Stonyhurst Stud, Sir Charles Clifford is finding it advisable, if not actually necessary, to send some ol ms mares away to be mated with outside sires. Two of the home stallions, Winning Hit and his son, Cricket Bat, were bred at Stonyhurst and are too closely related to many of the mares. The choice of the mares to be sent away is restricted. Seven of the Stonyhurst matrons are being sent abroad this season and four ditferent outside sires will be patronised, as follows:— Nightmarch, by Night Raid, from Marsa, has been chosen for three, me lirst of these is .the Winning Hit— Equipment mare Ball Dress, a mating that already has produced Nightdress, a winner at two years and a promising candidate now for three-year-old events. The other two are young mares, High Rank, by Day Comet from Sailor's Hope (dam of Fast Passage) and Rival Shot (sister to Rival Hit), by Winning Hit from Rivalry. Two will visit Foxbridge, by Foxlaw from Bridgemount. One is Scrimmage (dam of Fracas and Trench Fight), by Antagonist from Mad Whirl, and the other is Scrimmage's daughter, Babel, iby The Ace. , „.. . Fracas, a young mare by Winning Hit from Scrimmage, will be sent to Hawke's Bay, to be mated with Bulandshar, by Blandfprd, from La Douairiere, by Spearmint. Paner Money, by Greenback from Epping Rose, will be the mate for Swoopalong (dam of Sky Pilot), by I March Along from Brown Owl. An interesting feature about these 1 plans is the choice of sires which may Ibe expected to endow their progeny with stamina, a definite search for stayers rather than for sprinters.

Queensland, which in recent years has made many successful raids into other States, has great hopes in the recent Tattersall's Cup winner Brownfelt for the Metropolitan Handicap and the Caulfleld and Melbourne Cups.