PADISHAH'S LINES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1938, Page 22

PADISHAH'S LINES

HALF-BROTHER TO CUDDLE

When the- Chief Rulers were first making their mark on the Dominion Turf it was for their speed that they were noted, and there were few among the critics'ten years ago who seri-j ously considered .that The Tetrarch) horse might' some day be represented by true staying stock. It was some time before they were really tried as stayers, but once they received the opportunity it was not long before several of them were demonstrating that middle and even longer journeys were not outside their , During the current season the now defunct sire secured his only Derby success in the Dominion through the agency of Royal Chief; and this week one of his stock in Padishah won the Welling ton Cup for him for the first time

Padishah's specialty ' has always been a middle distance. He has never won under nine furlongs. Four of his other six wins have been at 11 miles, and now he has. added 1J miles to the list. It therefore needs no telling that Padishah is nothing if not a middledistance horse. If he had had more opportunities at two miles he migfyt also have been successful in the role of a true stayer. According to accounts of the Auckland Cup he was one of the unlucky runners in that race.

CHIEF RULER'S STAYERS,

Chief Ruler got two winners over two miles, Admiral Drake and Gold Trail, who both succeeded in the-Auck-land Cup. Admiral Drake also ran a second in' the Sydney Cup!' Other staying horse left by this cosmopolitan sire were Daltson (A.J.C. Summer Cup, 13 furlongs, in record time), Hot Spring (S.A.J.C. Derby), Miss Nottava (A.J.C. Summer Cup), Deputy Ruler, Eaglet, and Upoko Ariki. At Trentham on Tuesday the highweight winner, Cricket, also came home like a horse who should travel longer journeys than a mile. The early belief about Chief Ruler's metier being the ability to get sprinters only was in part founded on this horse's being by The Tetrarch. When the.unbeaten grey went to the stud it was generally assumed that he would sire mainly sprinters, which he did; but he also. got several- first-class middle-distance 1 orses and some good stayers. -Three of his sons, Caligula, Polemarch, and Salmon-Trout, won the St. Leger Stakes. Chief Ruler, although out of,a full-sister to Absurd, who was'noted almost' exclusively for speed- in his progeny, followed along the lines of The Tetrarch at the stud, as he got both sprinters and stayers. It is interesting to note that Jest, the , dam of Chief Ruler, . was a brilliant three-year-old who possessed a good measure of stamina, because she won the One Thousand Guineas and' the Oaks in her year. She had a very '. brief, stud career, as she bred only three live foals. One of them was the Derby winner Humorist. The last of the trio was Chief Ruler, as she died the following year when, foaling to Polymelus. Chief Ruler could not add to the family reputation on the racecourse, as he. did not race, but he proved able to transmit all its good | qualities, with a : very low percentage of* qualities .that might.be termed undesirable. ■■......'■•■. :■.'■■■ :'r'[ .-, .■'.■■'

THE DAM OF PADISHAH.

So much for the sire of Padishah. JTrom' this source the Wellington Cup winner has undoubtedly obtained some of his ability to .stay on as he does. But'it is also necessary to note that an importapt part of his stamina makeup has to be attributed to his dam, the Martian mare Caress, who a year earlier left Cuddle to ■ Psychology. Cuddle won the Auckland Cup twice and-the New Zealand Cup once, and there ,are few horses, with the limited opportunities offering, who have been able to place three, two-mile victories against their record. Cuddle and Padishah are complete antitheses in theii manner of racing over a distance. Cuddle wins by going lo the front; Padishah by coming from the rear. The style of Padishah is more characteristic of the true stayer. An 'encounter between the two would be most intriguing, and there is a possibility of its taking placQ in the Sydney Cup at Easter. Caress, the dam of these two horses, and owned by' Mr. J. 'A. Hennah, w,hose colours Padishah carries, was a winner of the W.R.C. Taita Handicap as a juvenile, and she is a fullsister to Quest, a good but'somewhat unlucky performer now used by T. R. George ■as a hack at Treritham. She was by Martian, who is one of the stoutest fonts of stamina the Dominion has ever had, and her dam was the imported Thrush mare Trichus, who in turn was a daughter of the St. Simon mare Creme Simon.. Trichas herself did not race, but her' close relative, Circerole, was a good winner in England and ran second in China's Oaks. "

' BRILLIANCE AND STAMINA,

An analysis of the pedigree of either Cuddle or Padishah discloses an admirable admixture of i brilliance and staying qualities. ,It is perhaps because oi this that 'each possesses both attributes. Cuddle can produce brilliance at' any stage of a long race, and Padishah reveals it at the close, as he did on Tuesday. .Thrush is one source of brilliance. Trichas traces back to 8 Touchstone mare, Terrific, who figures in the ancestry of a Derby (the grey Tagaiie). two Oaks; and two One Thousand Guineas winners, and descenl from To'.chstoue is widely regarded as a very desirable feature in a racehorse, particulnrly as combining most of the qualities required for winning Caress and Trichas belong to the Bruce Lowe No. 20 family, which has never been well represented in New Zealand. The Dominion's best-known branch have come from Etiquette, ancestress' of Florrie, Rubina, Machine Gun, and Gazique, and from Sunningdale a mare imported from Australia, from . horn are descended ' Tukia,, Tamatete, and Kiltowyn. Another im-1 ported mere in the family, besides Trichas, is Marty, dam of Kilmiss, Karamu, and Rascal and grandam of Curie and Royal Line (dam of luesday's winner Kathbella). The Trichas branch of the No. 20 family has had a poor record in the best class of race in England. The only w.f.a. winner of note during the last century has been Stornaway, whose third dam, Lucy Glitters, was a half-sister to Solitaire, sixth, dam of Padishah and Cuddle. Stornaway was out as a two-year-old in the same year as The Tetrarch," and she was thought to be the "Spotted Wonder's' greatest rival. She won the Gimcrack. Stakes, but the two did not meet till the Champagne Stakes at Doncaster, when The Tetrarch disposed of her as easily s he had done all'his other rivals. The only other starter in that race, it is of interest to observe, was Eulogy^ who1 .was to become so famous when imported to the Dominion by Mr. G M. Carrie for the Koatanui Stud. Another good two-year-old in recent years from the - same branch of the family was Cockpen, a son olßuchan, who won the Coventry Stakes and Ham Stakes. Perhaps the family, like the No 22 established by Eulogy, and the No 18 established eighty years ago bv Manto. will attain to true renown in the Dominion, if Cuddle and others succeed iu carrying on the line. •