TREBLE DERBY SIRE’S END.
HURRY ON DESTROYED. Hurry On, unbeaten as a racehorse and famous as a sire, has been destroyed on account of age infirmities at the Lavington Park Stud, Petworth. He was 23. The late Lord Woolavington bought Hurry On as a yearling for 500gns. Hurry On could not run as a two-year-old owing to unsoundness, but the following season ho proved to be one of the be6t of his age by winning all hie six races. These - included the substitute for the St. Leger, which was run at Newmarket in 1916, the Newmarket St. Leger, and the Jockey Club Cup. „ ... Hurry On did not run again, being retired to the stud in 1918 at a fee of 400 gns. He was the sire of three Derby winners, Captain Cuttle (1922), Coronach (1926), and Call Boy (1927). He also sired two winners of tho Oaks, Toboggan, (1928) and Penny comequick (1929); two winners of the One Thousand Guineas, Plack (1924) and Cresta Run (1927); and one St. Leger winner, Coronach (1926). Hurry On was the leading sire in 1926, when his progeny credited him with £59,109. His stock had won £304,152 in stakes to tho end of last flat-racing season.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 106, 4 April 1936, Page 6
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