STUD NEWS AND NOTES.
Colt fcals are often extremely vicious. Shoxild. a number of them be ".■ocated in one paddock, they invariably fight lerociously. Ocnosipnally one may sustain some serious injury, bnt "(says an English authority) they scon leaa-n to take theiT own part, and many breeders assert that it doss them good to thus early learn how to look after themselves. The late Count Lagrange always believed in this plan. It is usual under such circunrstances for one of the colts to assort his superiority ovtr the others, and the "boss of the paddock usiially proves the best animal on the turf. Gladiatewr was a case in point. After making things very lively for the other occupants of the paddock, this high-spirited youngster eventually had matters ail his own way. Not without a straggle, however, did Giadiateur ga'a tihe day, aaid during the* whole of his c&.re'9r the "triple-crowned heTo" plainly showed his paddeck -scars. — A glance at Australian news furnishes yet ai other pioof of ths extraordinary success of the &* Simon cm Musket crass. The threeyeaxJrw Dividend, who recently won tiie Australian Cup and Champion Stakes, the great three-mile weight-for-age race, is by Simmer ouii of Lady Trenton (dam of Strata Florida, and' Loard Cardigan). Summer is by St. Simon out of Dutch Oven, and be had not the slightest vestige of racing form when he was a, two-year-old at Kingsclere. Indeed, I myself (says the Special Commissioner of the London Sportsman) more than once declined to recommend him to Australian buyers who w&re tempted by his pedigree. I doubt very nnuch whether he was even sound; 'but there it is, bis son out of Lady Trenton comes out top of the tree. Of her other sons, Strata Florida,, who won the Caulfi&ld Guineas and other good races, is by Graft-on, a roaring son of G-alopin and Maid Marion (dam of Ercildwune), and Lord Cardigan, the Melbourne Cup winner, ia by Positano, son of St. Simon, and a> mare of the Stmshine branch of No. (1) family. Lady Trenton is a short pedigree mare on the dam's side, but that she is a thoroughbred admits of no practical doubt. It is too eajrly as yet to ascertain what th© Carbine, Trenton, and of her Musket-bred mares now in England will do, but as they have infinitely better Gakroin and St. Simon horses available as mates in -this country than aaiy that can bo found in Australia the infeivnce is that they will be very successful indeed.
STUD NEWS AND NOTES.
Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 50
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