"TERLINGA" AT ST ALBANS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6267, 17 June 1898, Page 3

"TERLINGA" AT ST ALBANS.

» "Terlinga." of the "Australasian," recently visited Mr W. R. Wilson's stud farm, St Albans. From the account of his visit the following is taken : — Mr Wilson first took us to the paddock where about fifteen foals were running. The first spotted was a chestnut filly marked in the Wallace style, and it was no surprise to hear that this was the filly by Wallace from Aura, the dam of Auraria and Aurum. She is a nice-sized filly, and a very good shaped one, darker in colour than Wallace was as a young one. but in other respects quite in the style of her sire. There are two colts by Wallace. One is a black from Bonnie Rosette, and the other a bay from Waterlily. Both are a credit to Carbine's best son, and with the chances he is getting there is not much doubt about Wallace turning out a sire. Among the Bill of Portland foals were a strong, thick colt out of Melodious, a brown brother to Ormuz, a sister to Bobadil, and a sister to the Emmie colt we were to see and admire later in the day. There was also a great lengthy brown , colt by Light Artillery from Hortense, that held his own with the best of them. On our way to the boxes where the sales used to take place, we came across Aura, She, Waterlily, and the young Trenton — Mersey mare, in a paddock by themselves. Mr Wilson is afraid Aura is not in foal, but if this is the case, I don't know that it is to be regretted. She has foaled Trcnora (dead), Auraria, Aurum, Auriferous, Auric, and the Wallace (illy since 1891, and a year's rest will do her no harm. In the saleyard boxes were six yearlings which , have just been broken, and will be wanted i in tlie spring. Tliej' are in the rough, but several of them look like keeping up the reputation of the stable. A very strong-looking , brown, standing over plenty of ground, is i by Bill of Portland from Tea Rose, by i Martini-Henry. Then there is a thick-set, : powerful little sister to Bobadil, which takes very much after She; At present she l lacks the freedom of Bobadil, but, of coim.e, : there is plenty of time for her to lengthen I out. Trenton's filly, from Insomnia (sister to La Tosca) is a well-grown, active-looking brown that is not at all unlikely to be heard j of in October, and a tallish light bay, by \ Trenton from Umilta, is another smart one. 3 The other is a colt by Trenton from Water--3 lily, a well-grown bay. Three very fine 3 colts that will be kept for the autumn . are Argonaut, by Amphion from Sandfly; r Auric, by Trenton from Aura; and a bay jr by Bill of Portland froitf- Emmie. The English colt Argonaut , a lengthy, close-to-the-ground- black, with plenty of sub■j stance, is the. paddock crack at St Al- » bans. Mr "Wilson tells me that when [ ~ all the colts' were in the bite paddock, 0 this black fellow led the others quite as far G as Wallace used to do in his yearling days. " Auric iooks a fine horse rather than a yearJ. ling. He seems to me to take more after n J Aura than, Trenton, and although bigger now- in every -way than Aurum, there is no i- lumber about him, and should he stand g training, his turning out a weight-for-age y horse is as nearly a certainty as you can get n in racing: Emmie, by Robinson Crusoe r. from Olga, the dam of Patron, Patroness, is etc. has not done anything at. the stud so far, but her cot by Bill of Portland stands i- out from anything she has hitherto produced, and it may be that Emmie is to be

tlie next St Albaris *is*tb to come to th irn' aS tlle dam of a class colt. ■ . J.?ill of Portland- is?" imdbttbtedly one of th nest-looking stud horses-' tit* place has eve sheltered; a . horse of pci« quality, wit] K^ ?' \9 Z ? ? nd . substance^ aad one o. tin most active moverW ilnaghtoblte. Bntil Persim "„" cam f M t'Ve scone, "Rilll" was gene , i.|Hy spoken of as the finosfrlbofa'iig hora bt Jiinim had 'ever sired. When he cam* to Australia, I must admit- tlia* E was noi much enamoured of some of tlifc lines oi i*il s pedigree, on the dairfs B idb> bul he has jumped to the front at -the very out set of his career, and verified tlifccorreetness a * ?..,, ;^ i " 01 , 1 on Musket oWsh.- Tc date, Bill of Portland has had fouKtw^vearolds running for him. Bobadil is-the'fest of the year, and Cniigmore is the only one that had not won at the time of my visit to St Albans. Havoc, by Nordenfeldt from Frailty, had a few half-bred mares last season, but he will start stud life in earnest this year, when, in addition to Aura, and several more of Mr Wilson's, he has about ten outside mares already booked. Havoc is not quite such a masculine horse as other sons of Frailty, but he is a beautiful horse, and he was a genuine racehorse— a weight-for-age winner in the best of company as a four - year - old. All Frailty's sons have done well at the stud, and no doubt the fact of his having Havoc in his possession had some influence over Mr Wilson when lie let Trenton go. Wallace gets darker in colour as he gets older, and he has filled up and improved into a remarkably nice horse. From a breeding point of view he looks an ideal stallion! On both sides of the house there is strength and fashion. Then he was a great racehorse. Like Carbine, his sire, he was \ equally good whether the distance was six ; furlongs or three miles. Perhaps the best ' race he ever ran was in the Sydney Cup, which, as a three-year-old, he Avon very easily with Bst 121 bon his back. Besides being as, good, or better— l must not forget Amberite— than any other son of Carbine, .Wallace was the only one of the " champion of champions' " get who inherited all his sire's little ways and tricks. Evidently Carbine and his son Wallace were much the j same in disposition, and I like Wallace all ; the better for this. I think it is perfectly : safe to predict a successful career at the , stud for Wallace. I saw the horses in training in their boxes and again at work next morning. Mr Wilsoiu has a very • fine - looking Derby colt ire IKenown, by Trenton from Elsie, by St Simon. He ran at Geelong in Febbruaiy, but is still very backward, and with Bobadil to look after the stable intere.ts in the spring, I don't- suppose Renown will be seen at his best until the autumn. Renown is not a giant, but he stands out from the rest of the St Albans colts in the matter of size, and is a nice even mover. Auriferous, by Robinson Crusoe from Aura, I was disappointed with. He seems to have stood still lately, and does not look like ever soaring above fair handicap form. Regained, by Robinson Crusoe from Happy Land, is another colt that has not fulfilled his early promise. He looks as well as he can be made, but at present he is troubled with the slows. It is in favour of Auriferous and Regained that they are by Robinson Crusoe, many of whose colts improved with age. Elusive is a light spare little mare, but, like so many of Trenton's daughters, she is real grit when at her best, and she can stay. Resolute is now over the attack of rheumatism which put him out of the Australian Jockey Club's Meeting, and he never looked better. His feet, which were such a trouble, are quite sound now, and up to a mile and a quarter he would probably beat any old horse in Australia. Bobadil, whose -coat was standing the wrong way in .Sydney, is now a picture of healthy condition, and although only 15 hands 2 inches, and not nearly so stout as Aurum, he is a wonderfully true made little horse. Action carries weight, and no horse ever galloped with greater ease to himself than does Bobadil, but fast as he has shown himself, I am not yet prepared to renounce Aurum in favour of Bobadil. I admit that " Bobby," as he is called at home, may be faster over a short course than Aurum was, but I doubt if he .will ever approach Aurum's Melbourne Cup performance. However, Bobadil will probably win another Derby for Mr Wilson, and that is the particular race the owner of St Albans hankers after. His backers may take it for granted that the stable has never sheltered a sounder hcrse or a better doer than Bobadil, and I do not think there is the least chance of any of his companions proving good enough to offer any serious opposition to him. Majestic and Manfred, who were thrown out after the spring meetings, are now in slow work again, and both look healthy and well. Amiable is an addition to the stable who should prove invaluable in trying two-year-olds if kept in training ; and last, but not least, there is Symmetry, the Trenton filly, who met with the accident last Derby day, and could not run in the Maribymong Plate. Symmetry is quite over her mishap, and she will strip a remarkably fine mare next season. She looks quite as good a thing for the Oaks as Bobadil does for the Derby. Majesty and Norseman were the only other horses in training I saw. Reliance is still turned out, and Bradford has been given up as a bad job, and sent to Segenhoe for one oi Mr Wilson's nieces to ride.