TALK OF THE DAY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3006, 25 October 1911, Page 55

TALK OF THE DAY.

By Sentinel j PltlCE AND VALUE." Breeding thoroughbreds with the object of sending jtutm unmtir the hammer as year-' lings bas developed into a big industry in Kew and .there seams.every pios-- ! pect of it continuing to gi'ow . azue^s baited toy tiie faddists, WBO are -apparently inn; I bued with the great -and foolish ioea of i debarring their teJAoWiineu trom taking a ! glass «J wine or partacipakng In a bet upon j »• hor»e race. At £U«c tolusJa it wou-d pro- . 1 bably strike • eoaae people that the dis- '. " j»ersal ot the iSktezsue wtud would fee the : means of calling a hast, but experience ofg the past prove* that is aiot at all likely. : For msUuiae, taie -sale of the late Mr G. G. ; l Stead's -stud did not call a check oil the , 'I breeding oif thoroughbaeds, but pxo'bab-y 1 gave it a further impetus by the disper-sait j of a number ot high-class hoises and mares. _• 1 The sale supplied an opportunity tor others ' Ito acquire the suwieus oi a stua. The saxne j thißg occurred when jibe New iSealai.d 'Scuu j Go-mpajay, weiiLrogton Park iStuci, the e>yi*ia | .Iftairk SMrctd, the fcefßym ijodge istud, and so i . on back to the days ot the Mio&ks ±*u,k J .Stud, were broken up.- The dispersal ot j each ©f ibese studs was ,a matter oi regret at the tinie, but Others gxaspJu the opportunity aaid kept the game going. Ik iact, there is more temptation to go in ior ' breeding mo»F than ever, as stakes have grown considerably since the days when the ; Middle Paifc Stud' and. the toyiUfoa Pajk Stud sent out. their wininers. Some may I believe the tcrta'lisator is in jeopardy, but the write* is not oi.tbat opkuon. One can ; note that those aijieady on the tturnp tor parliamentary honours include men who have -expressed, themselves strongly in favour of the jnachirie. The. voting behind the , Sporting League factor that politicians oannpt afford, to overlook, and when

the -league gefe in full swwg:. its .influenoc is bound to lend valuable assistance towards keeping tin* totalisatot free from mol&Jtation. At the present time it is interesting to look back at; the dispersal sales of the yariouis- big studs, iifSSF -note the prices pa.xtt

for ihoronghibred «toek for the past >2O j'eiw s or more. Those interested in racing do not require -to be told that stakes have grown considerably is recent years; but, strange to say, the price <of the best yearlings is not mwifa,~ it 'iany, gireater tbaai it was a, quarter of -a -eeailsury ago. Their value is much greater, hut,the price has not increased in„.a <eorisesponding ratio to the increase of stakes. Twenty years a«o M. It. Allan paid .550 gs iiap- -ttie -St. .George- 1 - Fair Nell colt (a£ter*waa?d.s known .as "Saracen) at the dispersal iSale of the Middie Park Stud. The A¥eioanie Stakes -of that yea*r *was w-orrh 2Sosovs fin addition ito -a. ltf~£©v sreqj.stsLke); the IVfew Zealand Cup carried a 1000-sov stake, the Demy was worth amd the Canterbury Cup sQoso»s. The price paid for Saracen would be considered i-airly good even in those days, judged by ti*e average price of good youngsters sold "in reeent yeaa:s-; but when a, comparison is snade between the stakes -of It-hen and now a pso-gua.nea yearling is-not a particularly big'-pricod ycrmgster thai is f-a'iriy well engaged. The Sylvia Park Stud also went under "the hammer in JB9I, when Norderi^

fold* sold at S&GQgg, and rare bargains were made with fit; ;■■hf.-gep at 490 gs and Hotchkiss at 355g5. Australian teuyers were in the market for ■ the yearlings, and the late Mr /W. T-t. "Wilson paid SSBDsrs for Mersey with ■a Nordenfert colt (Carnage). Mr S. _H_ <£ollan paid 1050 gs for the Nordenfeidt— Nolly Moore <sdh (Opilodan)„ and SSQgs for the .Florence Macarthy colt (Tireuri,)., and Mt G. XSr. Stead got Stspniak at tSOgs. At the Wellington 'Park sale of the gaine feason Mr Grollam kept nodding until 2Q2sgs ; was ■reached -on . the Norderrfeldt —Frailty colt (Mbnsqueiair*). In 1688 Gorunna /(Muskst — Nelly Moore) cost -625 gs as a yearling, and Neok3aoe made "the .aanne figure. Australian buyers w«ce in evidence at the New Zsalaad Stud yearling sale of 1887, when two yearlings (Musket —Sylvia filly and the Onyx filly) topped IOOOgs. Chain«bpt cost TOQg® at the same sale, and the roijghty Carbine fell to the ned -of Mr Dan O'Brien at 620 gs. In -January, 1990, the late Mr Stead paid 1400 gs .for B-syal Artillery, and when some of the above figures are compared with those paid for promising yearlings .in r-ecent seasons, ft appears that in the light "of the substantial increase of stakes, prices are deo:dedlv in favour of the buyer, who has a much richer field to exploit than the bloodstock-buyers in bygone years.

THE FORBURY PARK MEETING. The pEOjfl'MnKW issued for the Forbury Park Trotfing Club's spring meeting, dated for December J. and 2, should oommand plenty of patronage from horse-owners, as every event -on 'the list is well worth winning. There are. «igh.t events on each day's c&pd, and. -with the exception of the two amateur races, eaeh stake is worth ICQeo-vs -or more-, whilst the leading items ■ire endowed with prizes of 210sovs and ""fVrrag each. On the first day the Presi- . it'* Handicap, of 170sovs, 4.55 class, will bs the chief event; and on the second day the Forbury Chip, of 200sovs, 4.50 class, tops the list. The unhoppled trotter is encouraged with two stakes of 130sovs and 135sovs, and the rest of the programme is d'rawn up in a, manner in which the club hopes to meat tihe approval of horse-owner-s. Nominations are due on Wednesday, November 1; Handicaps for the first day appear on Tuesday. November 14, and acceptances must be declared on Monday, November .20. A SUCCESSFUL OWNER. Mir J. B. Joel remains the man of the moment in racing (says an English writer).

When a man rises to such an exalted position in a sport which is made lap of intense competition it is usually fas - enly a brief season. The. descent is often as rapid as the asoont, a sort -of rocket and stick •business. Mr Joel, howeveir, -seems to be steadily strengthening the powerful position which Sunsta-r gained for him earlier in the year, and one- must therefore in all fairness assume that his series of successes has passed altogether beyond the domain of flukes to that of just reward for intelligent enterprise in all that pertains to the pport he favours. The average person may not realise this. He- only sees what happens on the racecourse. He sees perfectly-trained horses and skilful jockeyship. The credit here, therefore, is to. Charles Morton, the trainer, and George Stern, Frank Wootton, D. Maher. Walter Griggs, as the case may be. Only one who knows the -owner of Sunstar at home can gain an idea, as to why he is the man of the moment. For instance (says an English exchange) you will find no betterkept estate in the country than that of Childwiekbury, St. Albans, which he bought some years ago from the executors of the late Sir Blundie Mapks. The. place has under gome many •changes in ffihe last 10 years. The thoroughbred stud is one of the best in the country, and who hut the owner is entitled to the substantial credit, for this? Not a manager, as is so often, the case -with most'-studs of the/day, for Mr -Joel k his'own manag-ar. He has formed and Steadily perfected his i.'ideas.He began with images of a stent and r.soewinning strain,- and he bad the courage tt- .«=H!ppcrt his h©r,se, Snandridjge, who started at the stud at an insignificant fee. Mr Joel has roost abundantly Teaped'fte BW&rd: of his steonj? belief land faith in fciih. -He has already -sired a Derby winner, his tee reached SOOgs; he was *old to France for .close on £ZQjOQQ, and his fee now is sOogs. "One of the great mistakes of my life," said Mr Joel) referring to this pale.

THE YEARLING «AXJ9SI •, During the -GsnTiianey of the New Zealand Cup v»te>k the weli-known firm, M'ssai-s Pyne and Co., will held Jabeir annual sa'ijs ot thoroughbred yearlings. This year a fairly long- last ol youngsters witt' go under the kamaj*ec, and as several higrndass -winXtem made first pwisiie aip)peiur><tnee in Messass Pyiae and. Ce.■'* yad*ls, idaa sale is bound t© attract the attention «sf "tfee a-acing world. It is inteitestang «© roeaM *&» iat3t that winners saiteh as MeKfeshikjoff, King Jjog, Orfott, liianutee, Boris, tfSrand Kapids, Munjeet, All Bed, IMafec?!©, and .other notable pearfiarmers were aii soM under the hanraoer -at Tafctersall'«,•■- and naturally lent valuable assistance in building up the importance of ifce sjmng yearling sales, which have principally been identified -with stosk -bred at the Miderslie Stud. This year, .however, the ISders'iie and . Burnside yearlings will be- augmented by stock bred by Mr J. F. Buchanan and Sir &eoigei M'Lean. The Eldershe and Burnsidtryearlings will go under the bammer -on Thursday, .November 9, when the sires represented will be Charlemagne 11, "Vasco, and 1 Sarto. Seashell (dam of Sea King) • is. represented by a oo.lt got by Charlemagne 11, and thas mateng represents the St. Simon-Musket cross on to the Mermaid taproot, which is ene <d tihe ; *best producing families in Australasia. The Wallace mare Happy Valley has a fitly by Char-leAia gne 11,. and with a douMe cross of Musket and 'St. Simon *he yotwifster Should have a great paddock value, apart from fier prospeete on the *urf. Neva, tke dam of Danube, is represented by a <Charleraiagae colt, and there should he-keen competition for this yoireugsteT. Wallace naare in Denueler (dam sf spesdy Stepmeteri) has also a Charfenragne 11. coM, whilst that great .producing mare Madder iias a celt by >tbe Velasquez bowse Vaseo. Beel, the dam of iSaitatse, -who won <m the first day ■«S *he CauMald Cup n-jeeting. as represented by a Santo ocAt, and lima (dam of Obsono, one ef 4.he best sprinters m training) has a colt by Vase©., Several other attractively-b.»ed youagsfcers also-figure m the eatnfcague, which as well -worthy •of perusal, not only by prospective buyeis, but also by anyone "interested in racing. Mr -J: F... Buchanan will-send up *D yearlings sired by Martian, *rbo proved himself <aac of tfee best horses of his day. His censcrrts ar, e all bred, on winning lines, and as Martian fias proved irk merit by string «nc'h a aigh-class colt as Danmbe in addition to Mud-tast and Tannhauser, there should be plenty ,<&i competition for -the Kihlock yearlings.- .Sir Geo M'Tean will eend up more youngsters cot by Sarfco, whose stock have yet to enter the winning list, but only one, in Ait, nas been seen out who, in fas only sfcrafced the'possession ef speed, Theres no doubt that Art improv.sd oons-iderably after his- run at Ashhurton, as the Tfrateir Botioea the colt, doing a very creditable gallop prior to the U.J-C. meeting Cn-foi-tui-iatelv, a death in the dcb.irred the eolt from running at the meeting. Messrs Pyne and Co. s catalogue also includes .two yearlings bred by Mr i*. h. Moore, of Wanganm. One is a MR- by Charlemagne II from f« Trentonjmare Ma Mflfi Bcsette Adam of Signor). and the other is a filly got by Boniferm from Helen Portland, a good Performer that was got by Dorchester, (son of Bill of Portland.