FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1931, Page 4

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

B. H. MORRIS TO RIDE LADY QUEX.

DOAIINANT BLOOD LINES TO-DAY.

Mr. W. G- Emeny was anxipus to secure the services of B. H. Morris for Lady Qupx for Trentham, and accordingly cabled that ri<|?r in Sydney on Tuesday night. He rpceiyed the brief put satisfactory answer’ the next day, ••Yes, thanks.” ■ Writing of Concentrate's performance in the Metropolitan Handicap, an Australian. writer says: “The New Zealander probably would have won had he 1 got clear of the ruck a little earlier. He wap not in, the picture at the homfe turn, and it was not until hear the distance that he was seen coming with a great run on the outside. He was overhauling Strength rapidly, near thh pokt, and a, stride past it he Was in front. Concentrate Will be worth following in Melbourne.” When Cricket Bat won. the Dunedin Guineas on Saturday,,. he gave Sir Charles Clifford hit first success in the race. It'was, how.pyer, a-race?jn which the late Sir ..George Clifford had an -excellent record. Firpt Flight wop in 1914 and, after a lapse of three yeqrs, Long Range, Royal Stag, Winter Wind and Winning Hit won in successive seasons, while after riiissing a year Wild Hind scored in 1923. Cricket Bat .thiis madfe the seventh winner in the blue and gold chequers. ... . ' / ■ Stealth, the runner-up in the King A Cup at Perth on Saturday, is a New Zealand-bred five-year-old, by Night Raid from Bendown, by Downshire.- lie js thus a half-sister to Ma Belle Polly, a three-year-old filly trained by Mrs, J. Campbell at Riccartou, and; expected to.show good forjn this season. Stealth did his cij,rly racing for the Duriddih owner Mr. H. Diver, for whom he won some stakes. He showed good form in Western Australia .last season, and lie looks like doing well in distance events. Until a few years ago the leading positions in the list of English winning sires wepe monopolised by St. Slinoii and his sons or grandsons. The male line of St. Simon was sb strongly established that it seepied likely- to endure for ever in England pud crush all others out of existence. The decline of St. Simon has been rather rapid,, and in a few years the tail male of St. Simon have almost vanished from the winning sires’, ligt. The most recent statistics, available for the .current sedsbn wore issued just before the last inalil left England, and the list included twelve stallions. There was npt one St. Simon horse in the list. ' The two dominant lines to-day are those of Bend Or and Hanipton.’ Of the twelve sires included in the lifit three belong to the male line of Bend Or, the representatives of that strain being Pharos, phalaris and Grand Farade, who, between them, have been represented by this scaeon of races worth £04,262, and the races won include the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby Eclipse Stakes. The Hampton line, is represented by three horses who are descendants through , Bay Ronald. Solario and Gainsborough,' who ath second and fourth respectively in the list, are sons ,of Bayhrdo, who was by Bay Ronald, a eop of ‘Hampton.’ Son-in-law represents the Dark Ronald line of Hampton through Bay Ronald. The Hampton horses hired the winners of £54,887. Tetratema has had a poor sea* son, as he has dropped to sixth place, and more than half the amount standjim to his credit was won by Four Course in the One Thousand Guineas. Sansovino is eleventh in’ the list, bift he must now be among the top lot, as since these figures were compiled Sandwich has. credited him with ; the St. Leger. The principal winning hqrges for the sires named were: Cameronian, by Pharos,’ ; £29,4B4; Caerleorii ’By Phalaris, £10.208; Brulette’, by . Bruleur, £9067; ’ Four Course, "by Tetratenia, £8854; Golden Hair colt, by’ Gainsborough, £8094; Sunny Devon,' ' by Solario, £7600; Codkjiep, by' Buchan, £6932; Orpeh, by and Trimdon, |sy Son-in-law, £5725. 1 I ■ ' ' . '■! l’ -".r I