AROUND THE STUDS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 97, 2 June 1892, Page 4

AROUND THE STUDS.

[By

Traveller.]

( Continued.)

A nugget, ’pon my word ! If his half brother—lmpulse —were present what a resemblance, and this too, a son of Hotchkiss from Aida. I was quite prepared to see Aida give us a compact, shapely colt, but I was in hopes that the slashing great Hotchkiss would have put length on, but no. This whole bay son of Aida will, or should be of quite as much value as the 1200 guinea Impulse. Talk of a slippery gentleman ! The quarter of a mile gallop he treated us to was quite sufficient for me. He lost his mother for 10 minutes, and what a goer, as he “covorted” round the paddock. Hotchkiss can get them to gallop, take my word for it. Aida has been stinted to Castor, but why, I know not. Judging from the excellent result of her union with Hotchkiss it should have been continued. What’s this ? A powerful evenly balanced whole bay colt with a star. Can’t say, I replied. Do you

remember Mr. Lowther’s celebrated Bangle. I do, and well. Yes ! Well this is her son by Castor. Now you tell me, no need to expatiate. The grandson of Hermit has “ Hall marked ” all his get. Messrs. Gollan, Stead, Wilson, Ormond, O’Brien, Butler and others on the look out for a Derby colt next summer will have their ‘ ‘ heart’s desire” when they pick this aristocratic young gentleman to pieces, or I am a long way out of my calculations. A peculiarly marked youngster is the brown son of Patch and Nordenfeldt, with three white fellocks and a blaze, a late foal with any number of racing points, and one that looks like galloping, to say nothing of the fast but uncertain Patchwork being his half-brother. Albeit on the maternal side none of this flighteness was ever known, consequently the union with Nordenfeldt, who is credited with an exemplary temper, should, as I think it -will, turn out an exceptionally fast colt. The lightbay with a star, by Castor from Arielina is a “varmint” looking customer. This youngster should be useful over any country. His mother inherits —like all Dainty Ariel’s stock —great jumping abilities. No wall or fence is too big for her to get back to her foal, and I must say I have a strong fancy for inate jumpers, so followers of the hounds must remember Arielina’s son; also, don’t forget Don was by Ariel, also Isaac Walton, the sire of more cross-country horses than any other in New Zealand. A “peacocky” young gentleman is the whole brown except for a star, son of Queen Cole. Racing men will please remember the King Tom strain in this youngster. Lurline and Darebin are the outcome of a King Tom mare, and a running strain is also obtained through the dam of Queen Cole. I allude to Rosalie, the dam of Derringer and Cartridge. As handsome as paint is the chestnut daughter of Victoria, with a star and two hind stockings. None of your Adelaide’s in this filly; well grown, big boned, and as muscular as anything ever reared at the Park is Castor’s daughter. Slippery as “ greased lightning ” is the recommendation the stud groom gives of this youngster, and he’s not a bad judge is “ Jerry.” If ever the Traducer mare, Jilt is going to hand her name down in the annals of turf lore, I am sure her chestnut son by Castor will be the means. Whether the old mare is getting better as she grows older, I know not; but in this colt Southern buyers, who have, as a rule, a strong penchant for the Traducer strain obtain it here, crossed with Hermit and Stockwell, and those who follow up the various nicks have a “ breeding puzzle ” if “Coxcomb ” —that’s what I would call this colt—does not turn out a racehorse. This completes the weanings at Wellington Park prior to being advertised for sale. I hope to see what effect good oats during the winter months will have on this, the most even crop of youngsters ever bred at Wellington Park. There are for next season fifteen mares covered by Castor, sixteen by Hotchkiss, six by Tasman, Brigadier one and St. Leger one.