FROM OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 5 August 1905, Page 21

FROM OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.

At no time in the history of this colony has any one owner had so many two-year-elds of his own breeding in training as the J ion. J. D. Ormond. At Karamu. Stewart Waddell, that gentleman's private trainer, has a team of juveniles that are generally referred In by those who have seen them as a particularly useful-looking lot. The young Blrkeiihcads should do their sire credit dur ing the coming season. In point of number Frank Macmanemlit has Tin* largest number of two-year-olds Ihe property of different owners that have ever been in any one trainer’s hands In Auckland, and so far as 1 can remember in any part of the coioiiy. No fewer than 13 are in evidence In that trainer’s hands at Ellerslie. Some of them are fairly well Year in and year out. Mr Stead has had more two-year-olds than any other owner in New Zealand, and his average for the past 2d years must he one that few racing men in the cuhmivs could show. They have i»eeii select cd from various st mis as well as his own. and R. J. Mason lias invariably made the most of the good material with whl‘4i ills employer has provided him. It Is quite probable that Yaldhurst will not have a two-year-old repr<*scntative al the C..l.<’. Spring Meeting. (if Southern owners. Sir George (’lifford has invariably one of the largest trams of two-year-olds in work, ami the owner of the blue and white chequers dors not often have anything outside those lie breeds himself. Each year a batch of youngsters bred at Stonyliurst are sent to E. (’nits. h!s prl vatr trainer, to (’liokeborr Lodge, opposite the Rlcearton racecourse gates, to be wintered and tried, and few <»wners have been more successful with horses of tlieir own breeding. J. H. Prosser, the Porirua trainer-owner, has a number of two-year-olds in work, though he has had a few more under his care at one time previously. The}’ are the property of a number of prominent patrons of racing in the Wellington province, and have been purchased from different studs, and should <lo no discredit to their selee tors when tin* time comes for them to make tlieir appearams* under silk. Next to the stables already referred to Hint of Mr E. J. Walt, for whom T. Quinlivan. juti.. trains at Hastings, shelters one of the largest teams of t wo-year-olds. including some pur< hnsed as well as sonic bred al Longlands. where Mr Watt's private slud is. If there should be any youngsters of the class of King Billy ami Boomerang this year, the blue and white colours will again be found blending in the front ranks. Located in other stables in different parts of the colony there arc of course many I wo-year-olds undergoing preparation, ami probable at im Hine in- the history of tin* colony has there been a better distribution of strength in Hie chief provinces, and it will be strange indeed should Ihe two-year-old races during the season to be entered upon on Tuesday, August Ist. fail to he full of the greatest interest. Six months has wended its flight sima* visitors looked over the lasi hatch of yeanlings disposed of under tin* hammer al Wellington Park. During Hu* interval I have seen the foals at the sides of their dams there, but not since they were weaned, until one day during the week, when the morning was an Ideal one. and I drove out to Hie obi familiar spot for Hie especial pm pose. Young Mr Morrin. who is in charge, lost no time in acceding to my wishes, ami a pleasant hour was spent

io the paddocks in hi> company, and that u tin* juvenile blue bloods of the -lt4, of which there arc thirl >-two all told, till: h‘oll ♦•<»Js. ami nineteen tiilic*: liutchkisa, MeitSehikofl*. Blue jacket. Ph(M*bns Apollo. Cyrenian. and San Frami«o Iwing thparent sires. Hotchkiss claiming eleven. ten. Bluejacket seven. Phoebus A|m>llo two. and Hie other three siis*s one each. A short time since they wrrr alt more or less troubled with st i angles, and one or two were mH entirely recovered. All. however, are making excellent progress for the Unit* of year, and looking really well, and when they route lo Im* diaprrard at midsummer time, buyers will find a Hire batch (♦» select fiom. and some l part nuiarly nice ones ainutigst tin* numl»er. 11«*tchki'-s has left his stamp on most of his hH. while the young Menschikoff'* ea limit fail to pi ease the most exact lug of eoiumisseui s. and would do credit to any stud. Bluejacket has several well groa t ones, that lake the rye. Dm* al least <»f the pair of fillies by Phoebus Apollo should rare, ami the single representative's ot San Francisco ami ♦’y reiiia n may be smart, judging from pies-nt indications. Six months will <*!apsr before : In* sab*, and some great changes will hr witnessed during that lime, no doubt, ami J am not going now into a long story about each lot; but will merely meiition that whilf I trarted a spm-ial liking for thr Prob’em. Sunningtlale. ami Culralba rolls, by Mcnsrhikoff. and the fillies by the same sire from Armilia. ('astorlace. ami t'rrssv. I was particularly stim-k with the quaiilv o. the filly by Hotchkiss from Miss Delaval. and several other fillirs in the paddock by the same sire, including n big bav from Imported Sinionia. A well turned and well grown filly by Bluejacket from Lady Euii.y. is a capita! ::dvertisement for that young sire in bis first season, ('ampauia’s daughter, by San Francisco, lakes after the maternal side most. hihl should have a double value*, for her raring ns well aw breeding qualllies. H has been decided tn disperse the stud at midsummer time, and there* raimol fail to be a gmsl muster e»f buyers for tlie valuable collection of year lings, brood mares, ami fe»a!s. am! the sire*s. when that mm-h-tobr-regret ted time coiues i-omnl. A look al the Ihi re siren Seaton Delaval. Meiiseliikoff. nml Bluc-jae-ket, Irrmlualrd my visit. All three arc in spiendiel condition. Bluejacket being bigger in condition Ilian at any time since lit* iPtirre! to stml life. Mrnsehlkoft’ look* more mnse-Hlxi* ami robust than ever; ami Seaton Delaval is fresh ami bright. I* mar mention that Mriischikoff has nut been rugged a single night since hr ente.Trd upon bls present duties, ami hr ami Blueja<-ke*t are v< led two of LU,, very quiete*st stal-she-’un-'d 1 N “* ’»;»▼* ©