BLACK WATCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20586, 8 December 1928, Page 23

BLACK WATCH

RETIREMENT TO THE SIUD. DUE TO INJURED TENDON. Ora Own Correspondent.) ‘ LONDON, November 2. All New Zealanders interested in horse racing will hear with regret that Mr J. B. Reid’s Black Watch injured a tendon the other day when at exercise, and as he requires a very strong preparation it has been decided to retire him to the stud. He will stand at Mr Reid’s Upend Farm, near Newmarket, at a fee of 108 guineas. Black Watch won the Gimcrack Stakes in 1927, and he was third in this year’s Derby at Epsom. Announcing the fact that Black Watch is to-join the stallions, the Sporting Life mentions that he comes “ from a great staying family, both through his sire and dam. Slumber being three-quarter sister to Wakeful, the best mare of all time in Australasia, by Trenton, from Nightmare (sister to Commotion,, winner of the Champion Stakes, three miles, twice, St. Leger, etc., by Panic, winner of the Champion Stakes, three miles, Melbourne Cup, etc., from Evening Star, a daughter of Lord CHfden (St, Leger, Doncaster Stakes, etc.), and Maid of Derwent, halfsister to Maid , Masham (see Cyllene, etc.). Trenton was a first-class racehorse, and full-brother to Cuirassier, 'New Zealand Derby, etc., and to Cissy, the best mare of her year, by Musket, the greatest longdistance horse of his time in England. The Musket cross has' been successful in England through two N.ew Zealand horses. Carbine and Trenton (see Buchan, Gainsborough, Spearmint, Spion Kop, etc.). Black Watch also combines the Fisherman blood through Goldsborough. Fisherman won 65 races in England, including the Ascot Gold Cup twice. Knight of Malta was very closely relately to those high-class stallions Swynford and Chancer, who were both out of Pilgrimage’s daughter, Canterbury Pilgrim, Chaucer being by St. Simon (son of Galopin), and Swynford, being by Black Gauntlet’s sire, John o’ Gaunt. Knight of Malta did not race (not in Great Britain, at any rate), but Panzerschiff, the horse owning the nest unfamiliar name in Black Gauntlet’s pedigree, was a consistent two-year-old in England in 1886—the season in which the three-year-olds included such champions as Ormonde, Minting, and The Bard. That year Panzerschiff ran 11 races, and won every event except the first and the last, in Which, carrying 9.4, he was beaten by Peep o’ Day, 8.0. In his first race he received forfeit, and on another occasion he had a walk-over. However, he beat useful fields of two-year-olds at Ascot and Goodwood. From Black Gauntlet’s fourth dam, the curiously inbred Reg Rag, half-sister to Bend Or, descended some high-class stallions in Austria Hungary. Lord Lyon, sire of Reg Rag, was out of Paradigm. Five nominations are available at 19S guineas. Mares not proving in foal, and if in the same_ ownership, will be taken free the following season.