THE NEW ZEALAND STUD BOOK

Otago Witness, Issue 2524, 30 July 1902, Page 45

THE NEW ZEALAND STUD BOOK

Although the recent sittingsr-of the dele< gates to the New Zealand Racing Con<" ference were not particularly remark* able for any great or notabk changes or additions to the oxistih;} racing law 3. in deciding to publish a seeon/j volume of tho New Zealand Stud Book al least one haghly-commendaibde resolution v<a* passed, and one which should meet with gen«ra' approval and support. Tho fac< that the Racing Conferenca decided to tako the New Zealand Stud Book under it* wing caused the compilers of the Australian Stud Book to delete all New Zealand mares from tho latter volume, and in doing so said that the completeness and general efficiency of the first volume of the New Zealand Stud Book issued by the conference made *hoir inclusion, in the Australian volume superfluous and unnecessary. In doing this a high compliment was paid ta the compilers of the New Zealand %olumej and if the fir»t volume is not so complete aa it might be that is more the fault ol owners of blood stock who neglect to send in their return than it is of the compiler^ of the book. Those delinquent breeders make tho compilation of such a book doubly hard, and it 19 to be hoped that any neglectfulness in the past will be remedied we tht second volume reaches the winters' hands. Many horses who owe their origin to Ne^ Zealand parentage have not taken theii proper place in th« equine history of the world, because if they had dono co we should hear less of the "Australian-bred Carbine, flir ModVed, July, and Trenton." Horses bred in this colony, and strains of blood which never achieved any great prominence uctil percolated through the veins of soma of tho queens of tho New Zealand S-tud Book, have worked their way into almost every part of the world, where the cultivation of the thoroughbred iiorse^ is carried on. Lmt mouth a son oi Carblno carried off a couple of raec3 in France. Carnage and some of Trenton's stock have found owners in Germany. Sir Modred. July, Cheviot, Foul Shot, Artillery, and Maxim have brought Now Zea!and-bred stock, into prominenoe in the land of the Star 3 and fttripe-s, but, rtnfortuuately, Australia generally gets the credit for their production. Sportsmen in South Africa have had their attention attracted to New Zealand-bred horses, and it is said that had Menschikoff be&n able to go through the ordeal of a vet.'s examina. tion and come out with a clean certificate, tho flying son. of StepniaJc would ere now have been landed in the country of out late ©namiea. Personally, I would not ask for a better warhorso to carry me safely and swiftly out of action were the fortunes of the day going tiho wrong- way. Tho Auck-land-bred horse Stratagem ha 3 won several races in South Africa, and many of the horses recently shipped to that part of the world have a good portion of New Zealand blood in their veins. Coming nearer home, it was New Zealand-bred horse 3 who were raced in Australia that in no small measure caused English buyers to turn their attention towards Australia in their _ search for the horse- of speed, and in thn way Australia got a firat-class advertisement, which should have been credited to this colony. This was partly caused through the inclusion of Now Zealand stock in the Australian Stud Book, and by giving the New. Zealand Stud Book and the stock that figure in its pag€fl greater prominence, some of the orodit that lias been missed in the p O 1 may be regained in the future*.