AN IMPORTED STALLION

Waipa Post, Volume 50, Issue 3605, 13 April 1935, Page 8

AN IMPORTED STALLION

FOXBRIDGE FOR CAMBRIDGE. ARRIVING THIS WEEK. The stallion Foxbridge, acquired by Mi 1 L. S. Otway, of Pukekura, arrived from England by the Rangitata at Wfellington on Thursday. Commenting on the sire, "Tihuriel," in the London Sporting Life, writes that in the years 1931 and 1932 only eight thoroughbred horses (colts and fillies) were exported to Australia, for a reason which is well known. Last October a reaction set in. It was obvious that sooner or later there was bound to be a big increase of imported young stallions, so necessary to maintain the standard of race horses bred in Australia. (Towards the end of the year, among the animals exported from England to Australia were Medieval Knight, Lo Zingaro, Manitoba, Sans Peine, Harinero, Madagascar and Portofmo. New Zealand breeders have begun once more to consider the importation of promising young sires, and last year Beau Pere, Bulandshar and Myosotis were exported to Wellington and Auckland. These* have now been supplemented by a couple of colts whose names are familiar to racegoers in this country, for during the week that good-looking horse, Foxbridge, left for Wellington by the Rangitata from the London docks. [Mr J. V. Rank purchased Foxbridge in the December sales of 1933 for £2500. The colt had won the Atlantic Cup, £2520, at Liverpool, and finished third in the Eclipse Stakes to Loaningdale and Firdaussi. He was an unlucky horse for MiRank. He finished third in the Great Cheshire Handicap, second in the Summer Cup at Newbury and third to the dead-heaters, Estate Duty and Norman Herald in the Bilbury Cup. A good-looking horse, Foxbridge stands 16 hands, with about 8 inches of bone below the knee. Deep girthed, with straight action, and not at all leggy for a horse which is a grandson of Son-in-Law, of which line Foxbridge is typical. He is by the Ascot Gold Cup winner Fcxlaw out of Bridgemount, dam of the One Thousand Guineas winner Cresta Run, whose winnings amounted to £14,500. She is by Bridge of Earn from Mountain Mint, by Spearmint from Adula, a sister to Pretty Polly. (Having regard to the great staying blood in Foxbridge through his sire,. as well 'as Bridge of Earn and Spearmint, and taking into account his own racing merit, his importer, Mr L. S. Otway, may be congratulated upon bringing to New Zealand a colt likely to maintain the best traditions of the British turf.