AUSTRALIAN TURF REVIEW

Southland Times, Issue 24113, 30 April 1940, Page 8

AUSTRALIAN TURF REVIEW

PURCHASE OF GOLDEN SOVEREIGN LORD PARAMOUNT’S FIRST WINNER By SIR MODRED The Brisbane Cup, £3OOO, with cup valued at £lOO (2m.) comes up for decision on Saturday. In Sydney the week-end meeting will be staged by the Moorefield Racing Club. H. Badger heads the list of winning horsemen in the Melbourne metropolitan area with 30 wins. The pupils of the Melbourne trainer J. Holt have won £9635 this season, with 30 successes and places. The Adelaide Cup, a race (dating from 1864, will be a feature of the current week. Pupils of J. Fryer, of Caulfield, and a New Zealander, have been very successful of late. The Queensland Turf Club will distribute £12,850 in three days early in May. Dannevirke, by Colossus (imp.) from Tripping, is a New Zealander ranked highly in welter race company in Melbourne. The breeding honours of the 1940 autumn campaign in Sydney and Melbourne rested with gallopers foaled in New South Wales. A winner at the recent Ballarat (Victoria) meeting was the well-named gelding Galleon, by Drake (imp.), by Sir Eager. In his second win in Brisbane this month Haerepo, by Nightmarch (N.Z.) was supported at a remunerative quote in the ring. A SALMAGUNDI COLT During the past fortnight at the Wellington J.C. (New South Wales) meeting the juvenile colt Cleveland, by Salmagundi (imp.) won a seven furlong race on each of two days. The three-year-old son of a Southland sire has been raced prominently on other occasions of late. The dam of Cleveland was March Cup, by March Along (imp., and son of Swynford) from Cuptelle, by Trussing Cup (imp.) from Oretelle (imp.), by Orvieto (son of Bend Or, the founder of a great family). The winning colt was bred in N.S.W. by Mr A. E. Cooper, a studmaster and owner well-known to racegoers in Australia and New Zealand owing to his racers Talking, Mala, Micawber and Gold Salute (N.Z.). Sydney’s champion jockey, Darby Munro, piloted nine winners at the Australian Jockey Club’s Easter meeting, and it is estimated that he received over £4OOO in percentages and presents as the result of his endeavours at this autumn fixture. This winning sequence embraced successes in rich events such as the Doncaster Handicap (Mildura), St. Leger (Reading), Easter Plate (Session), Sydney Cup (Mosaic), Cumberland Plate (Maikai), Dongar Handicap (Own Folk), and A.J.C. Plate (Mosaic). In 1905 the New Zealand horseman won eight races at the A.J.C. spring meeting and his record is even better than that of Munro’s in a way, as Hewitt’s mounts were all from the team of R. J. Mason, the late Mr G. G. Stead’s private trainer. Hewitt’s successes were gained with Noctuform, Machine Gun, Sun God (two wins), Nightfall (two wins), and Isolt (two wins). BRILLIANT SPRINTER One of Australia’s brilliant gallopers in Aurie’s Star was a winner in Adelaide on Saturday and on May 4 he will be called upon to carry 10.0 in the Goodwood Handicap (6fur.), the most important sprint event of the South Australian J.C. autumn meeting. In stakes he has accounted for about £lO,OOO and he has raced in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. He is a great traveller and on one occasion he was conveyed in a float from Adelaide to Brisbane to run second in the Doomben Flying Handicap (6fur.). He has won the V.A.T.C. Oakleigh Plate (51fur.) twice, and accounted for the V.R.C. Newmarket Handicap (6fur.), also finishing second in the last-named event last season under 9.13. Seven years of age, he is a son of Stardrift (imp., and by Sunstar) from Aurie Anton, by Anton (imp.).

If southern breeders should note that a Victorian sire called Verbius died recently in Queensland they should not confuse this stallion with Silvius (imp.) sire of the well-known Southland horse Silver Choir. Silvius was a top notch staying racehorse and a successful sire, while Verbius was not in the same category. When he won the Carlisle Trial Hurdle Race (two miles) at the Ascot (Melbourne) meeting on April 13, the New Zealand-bred gelding Dolphin carried 11.0. He is a very useful son of the Southland sire Philamor (imp.). Dolphin was quoted at a good doublefigure price with the bookmakers and his totalizator win reward was a better one. Philamor’s descendant has won well across the flat, and is now racing as a six-year-old. A noted performer in England, Golden Sovereign, has been purchased for a New South Wales stud. Costing 2700 guineas as a yearling in Ireland he performed brilliantly for Sir Abe Bailey in England. He is a son of Monarch (a good performer, a successful sire, and a son of Tracery) from Fleche d’Or 11, by Teddy (a famous French horse) from Persistent, by Spearmint (son of Carbine) from Tout Paris, by St. Frusquin (son of St. Simon) from Lady Linton, by Ladas (a famous horse of the Illuminata-Paraffin maternal family) from Countess Lilian, by Isonomy (a celebrated racer and sire of the Stockwell maternal strain). FIRST WINNER Earl Marshall, a recent winner in Melbourne, is the first of the young sire Lord Paramount’s (imp.) progeny to score success. Lord Paramount is a son of that great sire Blandford, whose descendant Bulandshar (imp.) has won stud renown in New Zealand and Australia in the main through ' the deeds of High Caste. When raced in England Lord Paramount displayed excellent form. On his dam’s side Earl Marshall’s pedigree is of interest in New Zealand. This colt cost 325 guineas as a yearling of the first batch of his sire’s stock. His dam was Alike, by Analogy (son of Dark Ronald) from Uluuru, by Carbinier (son of Carbine) from Imprint, by Sir Foote from Impress, by Wallace (Carbine’s best Australian son) from Footprint, by Richmond from Footstep, a mare from Instep (one of the best mares ever imported from England to Australia). The blood of Instep runs in the veins of many of the best families in the North and South Islands of the Dominion.

A correspondent contends that one of the most gruelling tests ever recorded in a race in Australasia marked the win of Saladin in the Australian Cup (2Jm.) of 1872. The younger generation of turf students will admit that the enthusiast referred to is correct in his contention. Saladin (7.8) won the stayers’ race at Flemington after two dead-heats with Flying Dutchman (7.5), or three contests in

all. In those far off days of 1872 horses running a dead-heat in important or minor events seldom divided the stakes. The betting was one to win and under the circumstances owners as a rule refused to divide prize-money and betting gains and sent their champions out again and again for a clear-cut issue. However, Saladin’s desperate head win at a third attempt was uncommon.

Several Australian writers have referred to the breeding of Mr E. J. Watt’s horse Mildura, winner of the Doncaster Handicap (Sydney) and Newmarket Handicap (Melbourne) in glowing terms, and rightly so as the son of Manfred from Miss Meadows (imp.) must rank in the top flight of Commonwealth performers. Reference has been made to his strains of blood from Valais (sire of Manfred, Heroic, and Vaals), Black Jester (sire of Miss Meadows, and half-brother to the very successful New Zealand sire Absurd, imp.), St. Frusquin, St. Simon, Cyllene and so on—noted families be it said—but the fact has been overlooked that Mr Watt’s brilliant galloper can sport celebrated English and New Zealand blends from another great line. It is correct to comment on Manfred’s famous sire Valais (imp.), but it should not be lost to sight that Manfred’s dam, Otford, was by Tressady (imp.) from the New Zealand mare Otterform, by Multiform (a great New Zealand horse by Hotchkiss, by Musket) from Otterden, an imported English matron and dam of Martian, one of the greatest of the Dominion’s stout racehorses and sire of stayers. The dam of the mighty Valais (imp.) was Lily of the Valley, by Martagon, sire of Martian.