BERNBOROUGH’S FOALS

Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 3

BERNBOROUGH’S FOALS

NOT REGISTERED IN STUD BOOK PRESS TREATS STORY WITH CAUTION (Rec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Mar. 3. Rumours which- started during the week-end that Bernborough has more than one foal in Queensland have been taken up by the Sydney Press with varying degrees of caution. The original report claimed that Jack Bach, of Dalby, Queensland, . stated that Bernborough had four foals in Australia. Bach, who bought Bernborough as a foal with his dam, Bern Maid, for 140g5,. was quoted as saying he had a two-year-old . colt by Bernborough from Miss Shirley, and that there wfre three other .foals,, the whereabouts of two of which lie mentioned. The first paper to publish the story quoted Bach as saying the foals were conceived' when Bernborough was taken from “ the other fellow’s-stable and kept for 10 days.” - 1 This afternoon’s ‘ Sun ’ stajed rumours have been current on Darling Downs for some time that not "only are there foals by Bernborough in Australia, but at least one has raced. Toowoomba- racing men express no surprise at. the story.' No move to register atiy horse by Bernborough has. been made'as far as the-Queensland Turf Club is aware. The ‘Telegraph’ published a telephone conversation with Bach, in which he said his two-year-old colt was the only Bernborough colt he knew of in Australia. He described the colt, which was born _in August, 1945, as a big horse, bearing a remarkable : resemblance to Bernborough himself. , Bach stated this week that he would apply to the Queensland Turf Club for registration and, the name Mr Bernie. He admitted not having made a return of foaling to. the Australian Stud Book, as when in Sydney after Bernborough- had* been barred from racing in 1943 lie had been told that returns by him to the Stud. Book would not be accepted.. The keeper of the Stud Book, Mr A. Loddon Yuille, was quoted bv the ‘ Herald ’ as saying that until the registrar of racehorses .was satisfied over particulars of breeding, no horses claimed to be the stock of Bernborough would be allowed to race in Australia.