FOXBRIDGE'S SUCCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 21

FOXBRIDGE'S SUCCESS

SIRE OF LOU ROSA

SEASON'S BEST YOUNGSTER

The success ofl*du Rosa in the two principal races for two-year-olds at the resent Auckland Meeting not only establishes' his claim to be graded the leading juvenile to date of the current term, but it also draws attention to the prominence with which the progeny. Oi. the Imported jFpxlaw stallion Foxlight have been racing this season. Eleven Foxbridge horses. have won nQ *ewei. than 23 races'among them, and they ■b-?ve also.ftfled minor places on nearly bt: decasiorh,. During the, holidays the winners were Lou Rosa (twice;, Proud Fox, Foxsen, Cornish, Gay Fox, and Mountain Fox. The oldest of Foxbridge's progeny are three years* and ten out pi nis eleven winners this season are horses of this age. The largest number of wins goes to . 'roud Fox, who has scored on four occasions, his latest success being in the Queer's Plate. Three wins, have been taken by Loußosa and Foxmond, two each by Noble Fox, Cornish, Foxsen, Gay Fox, and Mountain Fox. and one each by Foxtoon, Lady Fox, and Greek Queen. In Australia John Peel and Manurere have also been winners for him reCGlltlV- ■ ~- -' . ' .-'■■• ■ ■ ' . Though'Fpxbridge has the. present distinction.ofr being sire of th«, leading juvenile of the/;season, his offspring as a whole -.appear to:be doing better m their .second year. Last season, in his* first crop,; he. had only three-win-ners, FvOxmoiirid^ Greek Queen, and Noble iFox,- of them in the top flight. This season he has had only the single two-year' Old winner, but a good: one nevertheless. : > STOUT SIKE LINE. i Foxbridge is a highly-bred, English horse by the Son-in-Law stallion FoxJaw,:, a very successful staying persrmer oh the English Turf, winning thevAscot Cup, Northumberland Plate Jockey Club Stakes, and Prince ,- oi Wales-Stakes, and already sire of two other-Ascot .Cup winners in Fpxhunter and Tiberius',, as well as of the Goodwoofr vCup - winner . Cecil. Foxbridge also'proved himself in England before iy:s':sale for tlie Dominion, as^at three years \he won the Atlantic Cup, H Mies, -at Liverpool, and was third in : the Eclipse Stakes to Loaningdale and Firdaussl and third in ths Newmarket Royal Stakes; and at four years he was second in , the Newbury Summer Cup. beaten a head. He was imported Bv%r L: S. Otway, of Cambridge"Besides his strong sire line, Foxbridge" has commendable credentials on ' his -distaff side. His^ dam, Bridge- j mount, who wa, by fridge of Earn, is a grand-daughter ol Adula. a lullsister to famous Pretty Polly, winner j of-the. One Thousand. Guineas. Oaks, and St. Leger and, £37,297 in stakes. It is the same distinguished ..family •;as lias produced such horses as Spei■thorne, Christopher Robin. Fearless Fox,; -'Colorado • Kid. Capiello (Grand : Prix } de Paris). Craganour, and .. others. Bridgemount was winner of four, races herself worth £2354. and she has left four-mares at the stud, including the One Thousand Guineas winner Cresta Run, a half-sister to Foxbridge. ■^Foxbridge has had good opportunities ; •'iii his-early seasons at the stud in the Dominion, as he was quickly recognised .'by breeders as a horse who should get -winning stock, particularly over a distance, of ground. His progeny have •: already-won up; 1\ miles^and he has ,ye£to : have a runner over a.longer 'Journey. . . ■ _ " So much for the. sire of Lou Rosa, 'who might develop into a Derby horse. Tti.ext season, as he won both the GreatNorthern foal Stakes and the Royal SStakes*'from' behind in the manner of stayer. -"■ " -I';'•■'■ -:;;THE^ YATTER3INA FAMILY "; : . /'A-brown gelding owned by his ; feeder; Mr. A. E. Lennard, of Falcon Lodge,' Waihou, Lou: Rosa is a son of ■the ■' L"ueullus-*-Autumn Rose mare Lucy Rose, who descends from the suci. cessful. colonial, taproot established. \n. New Zealand in the early seventies by the Yattendon mare Yatterina, who won: "up'wafds of6o'races and "was im; ported from :sew. South Wales by Mr. W. Walters.. Among Yatterina's dozen foals were the-^reat Northern Derby wfiinfr- -Libeller,: Libeller's full-sisters R6ssr|nai Fusilier, (Wahganut:.G4iineAs.), Matchlock :• (A^F.C.., and ■ V :R:C: •: S> Legjep), iPinfire (Auckland Cup), andHipporina (ancestress of Queen March, Te Kaira, Limarchi Queen City, Royal Appellant, etc.); Rosarina started one of the most successful branches of this family. One of her grandsons was Wairiki.who won the Great Northern Derby aftd Aviekland Cup/ A daughter, Vieux Rose, by Hippocampus and a: half-sister to Wairikj's idam .(Rose and: White), passed into tft^'pbgsession of the late Mr. J. Lennard^aijd this sub-branch has since, been : continuously by the Lem nard fasuly;among its notable reprer : sent.atiyes ; being the two Auckland Cup: winners^ Santa Rosa, a Soult horse out of. Vieux Rose, and Waimangu,T'another; ' Soult horse out vof ■ Vieux Rose's daughter Roxana; . : -■■ ■. Vieux. • Hose is also grandam of Autumn Rose, .who raced with .moderate success' under the name of Summer Rose, a name later changed, . At the stud Autumn Rose; who was by; Soult, got Master O'Rourke, Lucy Rose, and Gay Rose, all good winner's; particularly the two mares. Lucy Rose's wins included the Te Rapa Handicap,'! one mile, and the A.R.C King George Handiacp, one mile, and Gay Rose won the Ohinemuri, Matamata, and Takapuna Cups, the Waikato President's and Te Rapa Handicaps, the A.R.C. Handicap, and the Avondale Foley Memorial Handicap. Lucy Rose was placed at the stud by Mr. A. E. Lennard, a son of the ]ate Mr. J. Lennard, and Lou Rosa is her first foal. Mr. Lennard has raced only a few horses since he took over the breeding from the line started by his father, and Lou Rosa is the first to have carried his jacket since Lucy Rose and Gay Rose. He does his own training on his property at Waihou, so that all the credit for Lou Rosa's recent victories goes to him.