CALL BOY WINS EPSOM DERBY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18171, 2 June 1927, Page 8

CALL BOY WINS EPSOM DERBY.

ENGLAND’S GREAT CLASSIC RACE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopV-ight. Aus. and N.Z. Cable'Assoclatl<\i. LONDON, June 1. At the Epsom summer meeting the following was the result of the: DERBY' STAKES, of 100 sovs each, with 3000 soys added. For three-year-olds. One mile and a half. CALL BOY—Mr F. Curzon’s ch c by Hurry On—Comedienne 1 lIOT NIGHT —Sir V: Sassoon’s b c by Gay Crusader—Lubbercurry 2 SHIANMOR —Mr J. Courtauld’s b c by Buchan —Orlass y 3 Twenty-three started. Won by twq lengths, with eight lengths between second and third. A year ago, after running second to Colorado in the Two Thousand Guineas, Coronach turned the tables very decisively in the Derby. History was to some extent repeated this year. Adam’s Apple beat Call Boy by a short head in the Two Thousand Guineas, but whereas the former was not placed in the Derby, Call Boy won the great Epsom race. Last season, when racing as a two-year-old, Cali Boy was a big, overgrown colt, for whom time was expected to do a lot, as he had plenty of frame to grow to. He "went on the right way through the winter and now he is credited with being a good-looking horse. His pictures show that he is very much of the same type as his sire, as like Hurr'y On he is a big raking chestnut, with a good deal more white about him. his near liipd leg being white almost to the hock, and the off foreleg nearly to the knee. He also has a pronounced streak reaching from between the eyes to the end of the nose. Hurry On is a very big horse, as he stands about seventeen hands, but big as he is there is no lumber on him. Mr Allison once described him as being of the real Stockwell type, and he was able to speak with knowledge, as he saw most of the later progeny of “Emperor of Hootton,” as Stockwell was sometimes designated. Call Boy seems to be of the same mould. It is rather surprising that Hurry On should have been such a big horse, as his parents were not built on a generous scale. Ilis sire Marcovil was by no means a giant, and Tout Suite, the dam oi Hurry On, was so small that she was not regarded as being worth training. Mr Murland, the breeder of Hurry On, bought Tout Suite for only 10.) guineas. So little was thought of her Marcovil yearling when he came into the ring that Lord Woolavington was able to buy him for 500 guineas. What a bargain he proved! He won six races as a three-year-old, and was then retired to the stud. The six races he won were worth only £3248, but they included the September Stakes, which was inaugurated during the war as a substitute for the St. Leger. The great worth of Hurry On was as a sire. Up to the end of last season his progeny had won £149,572 in stakes, and as a three-year-old his son Coronach won nearly £40,000, and one of his successes was gained in the Derby, a race which Captain Cuttle, another son of Ilurrj On, won a few years ago. Hurry On did not go to the stud until 1918, and had one two-year-old winner in his first season in 1921. During the six seasons his progeny have been on the racecourse they have won the I)erbv (Captain Cuttle, Coronach and Call * Boy), One Thousand Guineas (Plack and Cresta Run), Newmarket Stakes (Call Boy), Champagne Stakes (Coronach), Kempton Park Imperial Produce Stakes (Coronach). Call Boy’s dam is Comedienne, by Bachelor’s’ Double from Altoviscar. by Galopin’s great son Donovan, trom Navaretta, bv Kilmartin from Pampeluna, bv -The Palmer. Sir Henry Greer who is now a director of the National Stud, bred Comedienne in Ireland in 1913, and sold her as a yearling to Mr F. Curzon for 130 guineas. , Sho was a very moderate performer, as she won only £064 in stakes in four races She has made ample amends for her shortcomings of the racecourse by being a great success at the stud. Her first foal died when a yearling, but her second saw the race track once |

and failed. Comedienne's next foal was Comedy King, who last season won five good races, worth just over £6OOO. Then came Call Boy, who was one ot the best, two-year-olds of last season, when he was twice successful, one of the races he won being the Middle Park Plate. Altogether he collected £4377 in stakes last season. Bachelor’s Double, the of Call Boy’s dam, is well known at this end of the world, chiefly through his son, Backwood, who won the Melbourne Cup and who is now at the Widden Stud, in New South Wales. Daughter i of Bachelor’s Double have come into great favour in England during the last year or two, and big prices arc being paid for them by leading English breeders. Last season maces by Bachelor's Double were represented by the winners of 32 races of a value of over £34,000. and their sire was second irr the list of brood mare sires, top plac -t being held by his sire Tredennis. Call Boy is out of a Bachelor’s Doubl”. mare, and so are Pillion (One. Thousand Guineas), Fourth Hand, Lovely Naples, Prestissimo, Celibrate and other first-class winners. Bachelor’s Doubl? is a beautifully bred horse, and he was a good performer. His sire, Tredennis, who died some time ago, was by Ker.dal, one of the good sons of Bend 'Or from that great race mare St Marguerite, whose daughter Roquebene produc - ed Rock Sand, one of the best sires of recent times. Kendal was practically ;i brother in blood to Ormonde, both being sons of Bend Or from daughters of Macaroni, belonging to the same femal? line—the Agnes family. The dam of Bachelor’s Double was by Le Noir, a son of Isonomy, and belonged to the same line as that great Australian racehorse Cetigne. Bachelor’s Double is very strong in Touchstone blood, getting most of it through Newminster and his son Hermit, having a doubl s cross of the latter. Bachelor's Double belongs to the same line as another Australian champion, Maltster, their dams running back to Anonyma. Lonely, the grand dam of Maltster, was by Hermit from Anonyma, and Alone, the third dam of Bachelor’s Double, was by Hermit from a daughter of Anonyma. The granddam cf Call Boy is a daughter of Donovan, who must rank next to St Simon among the sons of Galopin. And the next sire we meet is Kilwarlin, a St Leger winner, and a representative of the same line as Barcaldine, as both descend from the Melbourne horse West Australian through Solon.

The female line-of Call Boy is a familiar one to sportsmen at this end of the world, as he descends from the Oaks winner Industry. It is known here through Instep (the ancestress ofThe Admiral). Anrous, Desert Gold, Aurum, Auraria, Nigger Minstrel, Maid of the Mist, and many other great perforfners in these parts. Instep was out of Sandal, whose dam was the Oaks winner Lady Evelyn, a daughter of Industry. Sanfoin (sire of Rock Sand) and Sundridge are two other notable English members of the family. Both the sire and dam cf Call Boy belong to the No. 2 family, and Hurry On s dam was a daughter oi Sanfoin. Hurry On, however, belongs to the branch which produced Sheen, who will be remembered the sire of the dam cf the successful New Zealand sires, Martian and Boniform. Radiancy, the dam of Sheen, was a half sister to Star, the grand dam of Hurry On. Passing on from Call Boy, it is interesting to see that the two colts who were placed behind him in the Derby, were both useful performers last season, though they did not do much racing. Hot Night started only twice, winning the Stud Produce Stakes at Newmarket and finishing fifth in the ( hampagne Stakes, in which he started favourite. Damon won this race, with Call Boy and Sickle in the places. Shion Alor, who was third in the Derbv, was second in two of his first four starts last season, and then won the Molecomb Stakes an*l the Prendergast Stakes. Hot Night ii by Gay Crusader, a Bayardo horse who won one of the War Derby races. Shian Mor is by Buchan, a high class Sui - dridge horse, whose brother. Saltash. i 3 at the stud in Australia