Sporting and Dramatic REVIEW . . AND . . LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GAZETTE. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Thursday, June 16, 1898. AUSTRALIAN HORSES IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VIII, Issue 412, 16 June 1898, Page 8

Sporting and Dramatic REVIEW . . AND . . LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GAZETTE. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Thursday, June 16, 1898. AUSTRALIAN HORSES IN ENGLAND.

Latest advises from Australia convey the intelligence that Mr W. R. Wilson, the proprietor of the well-known St. Albans Stud, has decided that the Oakleigh Plate and Futurity Stakes winner, Resolute (by Trenton —Umilta), and the Newmarket Handicap winner, Amiable (by Lochiel—Affection), the latter, by the way, a recent purchase by the St. Albans squire, shall accompany the Melbourne Cup winner of 1894 (Patron, by Grand Flaneur — Olga) to England. Whether Resolute and Amiable are destined for racing purposes we know not, but certain it is that Patron’s mission is stud duty only., But should Resolute never race one yard in England, he should prove a success at the stud, as, in-addition to being a son of grand old Trenton, his dam (Umilta) is a full sister to that sterling good horse Correze, being by Newminster (The Marquis—-Spa) from Ouida, a full sister to our own old favorite Lady Emma, and other good ones. Amiable’s mission may be to race, and, afterwards, to visit a favorite stallion to breed to Australian time. Be their destinies as they may, of one thing we can all feel assured that no such brilliant trio ever left Australia’s shores for England as the animals herein mentioned. Breeders south of the Line are at present represented in the training stables of the Old Country by some very brilliant and high-bred animals, to say nothing of the horses now used there for stud purposes. In the first line will be found Merman (Grand Flaneur—Seaweed), Newhaven (Newminster —Ocean), Maluma (Malua —Madcap), Aurum (Trenton — Aura), Paris 111. (Grandmaster —Enone), Form (Grant rook—Trafalgar), Georgic (Clan Stuart—Mirzapore), Ebor (Robert the Devil—Helen), Norton (Ascot — Romp), Survivor (Lochiel —Mavourneen), Old Clo’ (Lochiel —Tatters), Tornado (by Cadogan), Coronation (by Little Bernie), Acmena (Martini-Henry—Acme), Essex (Sweet William—Queen of the Forest), Erl King, Bombshell 11., and many others. In the famous studs in England we cannot include Carnage, for he is now in foreign lands, but we have Carbine (Musket —Mersey), Trenton (Musket — Frailty), Lerderberg (Newminster — Novelette, who is, by the way, full-sister to the dam of Resolute), Chainshot (Musket—Locket), Carbonado (Hotchkiss —

Onyx), Mosquetaire (Nordenfeldt — Frailty), Sternchaser (Nordenfeldt — Crinoline), Pondmou (Newminster— Beryl), and many others of lesser note. ( Now, of these, Carbine, Carnage, Trenton, ' Chainshot, Carbonado, Mosquetaire, and Sternchaser, in the stallion class, are New Zealand bred; whilst, in the racing class, only Bombshell and Norton were bred I here, but, looking at the other side of the picture, this famous horse producing / land of ours is responsible for the sire or dam of the following: —Aurum, Resolute,; Amiable, Survivor, Old Clo’, Tornado, and Acmena, whilst Little Bernie (sire ofjf Coronation) is by the New Zealand-bred-Cheviot. It appears to us that if Australian breeders, who use the progeny of / our famous lines, can establish a trade with England, profitable to themselves, J? surely our own studmasters are capable ■ of doing the same. There seems, however, to be a lack of enthusiasm amongst our breeders upon the subject, and this'-/ lack of enthusiasm on their part means the accumulation of great wealth for ' Australian studmasters, who are headed' by the enterprising and level-headed /> proprietor of St. Albans. That our folk > / areasleep in this matter is but too ap-J/' parent, and we much regret to have make this statement, as we are well/.'.: aware that, in addition to having the best blood in the world at our disposal and, also, country highly suited to the breeding of the thoroughbred, we have men with ./•{ brains, pluck, and money. It seems unexplainable why such a state of affairs should exist. In years gone by, Ameri- • / can breeders came to these shores and took away with them such horses as Dare bin—we claim him for New Zealand —the brothers Sir Modred, Cheviot, ? Idalium, and July, also the flying Maxim, J and others too numerous to write about; When once established, this trade should not have been allowed to die out,’ and hope to find our breeders coming once more into the breach, and, by their action, placing the New Zealand-bred horses 'in the.position they should be, viz., the fore- ,/ most in the Southern Hemisphere.