Auckland Stud Company

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 5741, 26 December 1931, Page 8

Auckland Stud Company

DISPERSAL OF THE STUD. A decision has just been arrived at by the. directors of the Auckland Stud Company to dissolve the stud. As a result, t he bloodstoeli salesmen, Messrs. Wright, Stephenson & Co., Ltd., advertise iii this issue that a dispersal sale of the complete stud without reserve will be held on the fine property of the Stud Company at l’apatoetoc, commencing at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, December 31. Catalogues have been prepared and arc now available from the auctioneers, jeither through their Wellington or Auckland houses. The salo should provei of great interest to breeders and racing men. Several high-class sires have lieaded the stud since the company was formed, including that very successful sire, Catmint. A few years ago another high-class English horse in Whirlwind was selected by Mr. H. R. McKenzie for the stud during a trip to the Old Country. At tlio samo time some young English mares of exceptional breeding wero also secured and added to the existing members of the stnd which included somo of the best of the daughters of Catmint, who was by Carbine's most successful son, Spearmint. The oldest of Whirlwind’s stock ore now two-year-olds and the few that have so far made their appearance on the rpcing track have shown most promising form. Naturally they are expected to excel as stayers. Whirlwind, who is a commanding chestnut horse of great 1 quality and who stands 16 hands high jwas foaled in 1924. He did not race as a two-year-old and only started once jat 3 years, being unplaced hi tlio St. James’ .Stakes at Newmarket. As a four-ycar-old he showed himself to be a good horse, winning the Piccadilly Plate; over If miles at Hurst Park and beating Hunt the Slipper, who in his next Start, won the London Cup. Whirlwind iwas then purchased for export to New He is sired by one of the most successful sons in Galloper Light of that great sire, Sunstar, who excelled as a racehorse winning both the Thousand Guineas and the Derby. Owing to the deaths of his owners Galloper Light did not compete in the English classics, but he woa the Hastings Plate at Newmarket, tlio Paynci Stakes and crossing over to FranCjO won the Grand Priz do Paris and Wfas beaten by a head in the Coronation. Stakes, He also carried big weights and won as a four-year-old and his stikke earnings amounted to £11,226. Galloper Light has had a very successful stud career, having already sired the winners of £50,7-14. Ho also sired Little Carbine, who won 13 races in U.S.A., of a value of £11,890. Amongst the good winners by him in England is included Beam, winner of the Oaks. Galloper Light’s fee is 250 guineas. His sire, Sunstar, has sired the winners of over a quarter of a million in stakes. Whirlwind is wonderfully well bred, particularly from the point of view of a stayer on his dam’s side, his dam, Double Back, being by Bachelor's Double, a, very successful son of Trodennis, whose blood is particularly valued from the staying point of view'. Bachelor’s Double sired many great slayers in England, including Comrade, Winner of £24,000, Backw'avd, winner of the Melbourne Cup and that great filly, Love in Idleness, winner of £12,561. Whirlwind through his dam is related to the great Colonial sire, Martian, as lie is from the Sunshine branch of the No. 1 family. His grandam, Will Return, is by another great, sire of stayers in William the Third. Other notable sires of the day in Limond and Manfred also represent this family. Whirlwind is also an own brother to Reflector who is credited with being cne of the best two-year-olds in England last year. His successes includo the Coventry Stakes, £2250, and the Buckenham Post Produce Stakes, £IBOO. In winning the latter race he defeated Mr. Jinks, to whom he had earlier succumbed by half a length in the July Stakes at Newmarket. Reflector, who met with an accident as a three-year-old after being one of the early favourites for the Derby was retired to the stud of his breeder. In addition to Whirlwind, there will also be a number of yearlings and two-year-olds by this sire. Included amongst the brood mares which will come up for sale will be the imported mares, Legality, a granddaughter of the Tetrarch; Grey Eagle, a grand-daughter of Thrush, tho latter is a direct descendant of Primrose Day, winner of the Cesarewitch Stakes, etc. Amongst the New Zealand-bred marcs aro Pellet (by Thurnham) and dam. of that high-class horse, Croupier; Ti Tree (Tea Tray from Taimai and therefore inbred to the Paraffin line); an unaafflM Lord Quex Jean fro® ;

three-quarter sister to The Toil, a highclass winner; Thuranna (by Thurnhain, and half-sister to Subdivision, Land Measure and Foot Rule); Lady Penury, dam of Rossliirc and Mintage; the Rosscndalo mare, Rosclovc; the Catmint mare, Eoscmint, sister to Princess Bede and which is closely related to Aviator, winner of tlio Irish' Derby; Danao, another Catmint mare which accounted for the Great ijorthern Oaks, etc.: and a number of other very well bred marcs. It should be noted that the sale which is' a complete dispersal, is advertised to commence at 9.30 a.m.