FAMOUS SIRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 85, 9 April 1936, Page 4

FAMOUS SIRE

HUBBY ON DESTROYED. LONDON, March 14. Hurry On, unbeaten as a racehorse and famous as a sire, has been destroyed on account of age infirmities at the Lav ; j u’ton Park Stud, Petworth. He was 23. The late Lord Woolavington to.ipht Hurry On as a yearling for 500gns. The colt could not run as a two-year-old owing to unsoundness, but the following season he proved to be one of the best of his age by winning all his six races. They included the substitute for the St. Leger, which was run at Newmarket in 1916, the Newmarket St. Leger, and the Jockey Club Cup. Hurry On did not run again, being retired to the stud in 1918 at a fee of 400 guineas. He was the sire of three Derby winners—Captain Cuttie (1922), Coronach (1926), and Call Boy (1927). He also sired two winners of the Oaks, Toboggan (1928), and Pennycomequick (1929); two winners of the One Thousand Guineas, Plack (1924), and Cresta Run (1927) ; and one St. Leger winner, Coronach (1926). Hurry On was the leading sire in 1926, when his progeny credited him with £59,109. His stock had won £-304,152 in stakes to the end of last flat-racing season. During 1934 he served a limited number of mares and then went into retire ment.