Sires of the Season

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8144, 24 July 1906, Page 5

Sires of the Season

Sir laddo

Sir Laddo is tha latest importation to New Zealand and on looks compares favourably with any of his predecessors. While steading 16 hands high, he does not gire that impression, probably because he is of such substance and so compactly built. He is a rich brown with a " Traducer " blaze and a white hind fetlock. Judging by the photograph 'of St. Simon in the Weekly Press of November Ist, 1905, Sir Laddo much favours that greatest of sires, his head being a second edition of the Welbeck horse's. It is well set onto a powerful neck which runs down into a pair of nicely placed shoulders, which are well clothed with mustfle, while his back is short and straight, his loins being strong as a house. The best point about him, however, are his quarters, which are of conspicuous power, deep and running down with tremendous level second thighs into a broad flat pair of hocks. His feet are well developed and he looks sound enough to start another season's racing. Below the knee he measures 8| inches. His racing career extended over 4 seasons. He began unluckily as a twoyear old at Lincoln by running second in the John of Jj'iate, and ill-luck persued him, for/although he won races he was. beaten for three very big handicaps by a head* and each to, The Field* by nothing btyt ba,d, riding. He ran over all irow. a mile to two miles, Tj?ii»ning.the Nelson Plate (1 mile 7 fnyWgs) in Suiia 4 l-ssec, the Zetland Plate (1 mile) m Imm 43 l-ssecj and run sip g as nlrfi&dy mentioned, Chester Wynnstay Plate feiiles), the Nottingham Handicap U4 miles), and the Sandown Autumn Handicap (1 mile). His pedigree is as follows: —Sir Hugo was a great racehorse, winning, among other races, the Derby. His only SOU, JQ the colonies is Sir Foc>te> two of whose yearlings brought 2000 guineas and 1600 guineas respectively at the Sydney sales. Sir Hugo is conspicuously inbred to Stockwell and Raiaplan, and K&s, in addition, a strain of Vedette and Lord Olifden. Golden Moments, the dam of Sif Laddo, was by Sheen out of Memoir. Sheefif Won the Czarewitcii with the heaviest weight ever carried to victory. He was a great sire, his stock in one year alone winning upwards of 13,000 sovereigns. He was by Hampton out of half sister to the successful sire Mask. Memoir, the dam of Golden Moments, was one of St. Simon's great mares. She was second to a stable companion for the 1000 Guineas and won the Oaks, St. Leger and Newmarket Stakes. Her sister, La Fetclie, won the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and St. Leger and £30,000 in stakes. On her retirement to the stud she was bought by Sir Tatton Sykes for 12,500 guineas. For her son, John O'Gaunt, 20,000 guineas was vainly offered. Memoir was by St.- Simon cut of Quiver, a sister in blood to Musket, and Sir Laddo, tracing from her, should nick .wonderfully with mares by any St. Simon or Musket horse. Grafton, who is by Gallopin out of a daughter of Quiver, is bred on the same lines as Memoir. The family Sir Laddo comes from is one of the greatest modern fountains of stallions and has been specially prominent in the colonies, Musket, Grafton, Dreadnought, Wallace claiming in direct descent; while Carbine probably owed his great success to the nick of the same blood Brown Bess, through Musket's and Clemence's sire Knowsley, both direct defendants of that great mare. Master Kildare, Tramp, Knowsley, General Peel, Windfall, and Plum Pudding are modern representatives in England of this robust family. Sir Laddo was purchased to mate with mares of St. Simon or Musket decent. Any daughter of Soult, Cyrenian, Phoebus, Apollo, or Grafton on their St. Sim.in decent, and any mare by Dreadnought, a Musketbred stallion, or Grafton on their Brown Bess descent, should nick well with him, while mares inbred to Stockwell will meet with a profusion of that firstclass blood as in addition to the three strains in Sir Hugo, Sir Laddo has a strain of Stockwell, Rataplan, and King Tom through his dam.