AUCKLAND STUD COMPANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21528, 28 December 1931, Page 10

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, the bloodstock salesmen, Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., advertise in this issue that a dispersal sale of the complete gtud, without reserve, will be held on the fine property of the Stud Company at Papatoetoe, commencing at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, December 31'. Catalogues have been ■ prepared, and are now available from the auctioneers either through their Wellington or Auckland houses. The sale should prove of great interest to. breeders and racing men. Several high-class sires have headed 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. M'Kenzie for the stud during a trip to the Old Country. At the same time some young English mares of exceptional breeding were also secured and added to the existing members of the stud, which included some of the best of the daughters of Catmint, who was by Carbine’s most successful son, Spearmint. ’The oldest of Whirlwind’s stock are now two-year-olds, and the few that have so far made their appearance on the racing track have shown most promising form. Naturally they are expected to excel as stayers. 'Whirlwind, who is a commanding chestnut horse of great quality, and who stands 16 hand high, was foaled in 1924. He did, not race as a two-year-old, and only started once at threq’years, being unplaced in the St. James Stakes at Newmarket. As a four-year-old he showed himself to be a good horse, wininng the Piccadilly Plate over one mile and a-quarter at Hurst and beating Hunt the Slipper, who in his next start won the London Cup. Whirlwind was then purchased for export to New Zealand. He is sired by one of the most succcessful sons in Galloper Light of that great sire, Sunstar, who excelled as a race horse, winning both the Two Thousand Guineas and the Derby, Owing to the deaths of his owners Galloper Light did not compete in the English classics, but he won the Hastings Plate at Newmarket, the Payne Stakes, and crossing over, to France won the Grand Prix de Paris, and was beaten by a • head only in the Coronation Stakes. He also carried big weights and ' won as a four-year-old, and his stake earnings amounted to £11,226. Galloper Light has had a very successful .stud career, having already sired the winners of £50,744. He also aired Little Carbine, who won 13 races in the United States of a value of £11,890. Amongst the good winners by him in England js 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 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 Tredennie, whose blood is particularly valued; from the staying point of view. Bachelor’s Double sired many great stayers in England, including Comrade, winner of £24,000; Backward, winner of the Melbourne Cup; and that great filly, Love in Idleness, winner of £12,561. Whirlwind through hie dam is related to the great colonial sire Martian, as - he is from the Sunshine branch of the No. 1 family. His grand-dam, Will Return, is by another great sire of stayers in William the Third. Other notable sires of the day jn Limond and Manfred also represent this family. Whirlwind is also an own brother to Reflector, who is credited with being one of the best two-year-olds in England last year; His successes include the Coventry Stakes, £2250, and the Buckenham Post Produce Stakes, £IBOO. In winning the latter racq 1 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 ithree-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 tVo two-year-olds by this sire. Included''amongst the brood mares which will come up for sale will be the imported mares Legality, a grand-daughter of The Tetrarch; Grey Eagle, a grand-daughter of Thrush, the,latter a direct descendant of Primrose Day, winner of the Cesarewitch Stakes.; etc. Amongst the New Zealand-bred mares are Pellet (by Thurnham), dam of that high-class horse Croupier; Ti Tree (Tea Tray from Taiamai, and therefore inbred to the Paraffin line) ; an unnamed Lord Quex mare from Steinlieil, three-quarter sister to The Toff, a high-class winner; Thuranna (by Thurnham, and half-sister to Subdivision, Land Measure, and Foot Rule); Lady Penury, dam of Rosshire and Mintage; the Rossendale mare, lloselovc; the Catmint marc Rosemint, a sister to Princess Bede and which is closely related to Aviator, winner of the Irish Derby; Danae, another Catmint mare -which accounted for the Great Northern Oaks, etc.; and a number of other very well bred mares.