Sporting & Dramatic REVIEW AND Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette. With which is incorporated the Weekly Standard. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1906. POSEIDON AND CAMBRIAN.

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Sporting & Dramatic REVIEW AND Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette. With which is incorporated the Weekly Standard. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1906. POSEIDON AND CAMBRIAN.

Poseidon has proved himself to be the champion colt of Australia, and his great victories in the A.J.C. and V.R.C. Derbies and Caulfield and Melbourne Cups will be talked of for many a long day as the record-break-ing deeds of a remarkable horse. He has in these races. given evidence of the possession of not only great speed, but also splendid staying abilities, and when these two are com-

bined, it would be odd if the stakes won did not run into a large sum. As far as New Zealand is concerned, the champion three-year old of the season would appear to be Cambrian, whose hollow victory in the Great Northern Guineas, in which event, without being extended, he cut out the mile in Imin 41sec, stamps him as being a particularly smart horse. It is interesting to note how these two colts are bred, and a perusal of their pedigrees immediately reveals the fact they are in realily closely related, the similarity in breeding being quite remarkable. Poseidon was got by Positano, a son of the Galopin horse St. Simon, from Ponza, a daughter of Springfield. Cambrian was got by Cyrenian, a son of St. Simon from Daisy Chain, a daughter of Springfield. Close as is the relationship on the sire’s side, it is not more so than on that of the dam. Jacinth, the dam of Poseidon, is a grand-daughter of Musket, her sire being Martini-Henry. Miss Annie, the dam of Cambrian, is a grand-daughter of Nordenfeldt, by Musket. lanthe, the dam of Jacinth, is a grand-daughter of Yattendon, as is First Love, the dam of Miss Annie. Furthermore, both Jacinth and Miss Annie trace back on the dam’s side to stout-hearted Fisherman. lanthe was out of lolanthe, by the Fisherman horse Maribyrnong. First Love was out of Fish Girl, a daughter of the Fisherman mare Fanny Fisher. From this it will be seen where both colts get their running blood from. As New Zealand form is in no way inferior, if it is not superior, to that of Australia, it may be that in Cambrian we have a second Poseidon, but even if not quite so good as that, “ Mr. F. W. Arnold” can congratulate himself on the possession of a really fine colt and a very probable Derby winner.