LINES OF LAWN DERBY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 22

LINES OF LAWN DERBY

The Australian champion Lawn Derby, who set the seal on his fame by pacing a mile in lmin 59 2-ssec at Addfngton last week, is bred on the best lines. Both sides of hig pedigree are studded with the blood of Harold, one of the best producing sons of Hambletonian 10.

Lawn. Derby was foaled in 1930, and in 1934 he won the Pacers' division of the Sydney Derby, a race in which his sire, Robert Derby, was also successful. At five years Lawn Derby took a record of 3min 16sec, which he reduced last year to 3min 13sec. He holds the Melbourne Show record of 2min 4sec and the Sydney Show record with 2min 3 3-ssec. • His twomile figures of 4min 17 ,3-ssec were put up at Auckland last Christmas. While he has won with arid without hopples he has registered all his best times free-legged, and he evidently favours this gait. Robert Derby, the sire of Lawn Derby, is a son of Globe Derby, 2.8 1-5, who was by Mambrino Derby from Springheel. Mambrino Derby was a grandson of Charles Derby, sire of the successful brood mare Norice, and Springheel was by the Huon horse Globe .from Fidget, by Vancleve. a son of Harold.

Honest Kate dam of Robert Derby. was by Honest Harry, son of Honesty and Miss Stockham. while her dam, Kate Osterley, was by Osterley, by Childe Harold from Katie M., by Vancleve, who, like Childe Harold, was a son of Harold.

Lawn Derby's dam, Roselawn,' is by Childe Wood, a son of the New Zea-land-bred Ribbonwood, 2.9, by Wildwood from the Young Irvington mare Dolly, whose dam was a thoroughbred. Irvington, grandsire of Dolly, was a son of Hambletonian 10. Levuka, dam of Childe Wood, was inbred, her sire, Era, and dam, Beauty, both being by Childe Harold.