TURF NEWS AND NOTES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 11

TURF NEWS AND NOTES

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE

Black Ray a Remarkable Brood Mare HAS PRODUCED SEVENTEEN FOALS IN SUCCESSIVE YEARS LARGE PERCENTAGE WERE GOOD HORSES (BY ••CARBINE.") Black Ray appears to be one of the most remarkable brood mares of the present day. When he saw her in a stud at Childwickbury, the famous trainer, Capt Boyd-Rochfort. took a fancy to the mare and liked her breeding. He bought her for £lOOO. She has produced 17 foals in successive years. A large percentage of them were good horses. Among them were Dark Brilliance, Jacopo, Foray, Eclair and Infra Red, a good performer among the fillies in England this year.

It is claimed that this is a stud record. Black Ray (1919) is by the St Leger winner,'Black Jester (son of Polymelus and Absurdity, sister to Absurd) out of Lady Brilliant by Sundridge out of Our Lassie by Ayrshire.

Australia has had at least one mare that was just as prolific as Black Ray and, in the matter of the class of heibest progeny, a greater producer. This was Sylvia. It certainly does not seem that among Black Ray's stock there are three horses to equal in value three of Sylvia's—Goldsbrough, Robin Hood, and Martini Henry, or of three sons of Frailty—Trenton. Havoc, and Zalinski.