THE FISHERMAN BLOOD.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 955, 25 June 1908, Page 6

THE FISHERMAN BLOOD.

The win of Glacis, a Carbine horse, and of Victrix, a filly by The Victory, may do something to restore the prestige of Australian sires in England, but, after all, there is not much merit in- either win, as Glacis was in at 6st 111 b, though a four-year-old, and Victrix had a 101 b allowance, being the progeny of a sire standing at less than 10 guineas. The Victory, a Melbourne Cup winner, stands at the Straffan Station Stud, Ireland, a small stud belonging to a private gentleman, who has been remarkably successful with the stallion Forunio and a few good mares. The Victory was sent to this stud by his owners, Messrs. Clarke and Robinson, in the hope that he would be well patronised as a descendant of the mighty Fisherman. However, the name of Fisherman evidently does not appeal to them very much in England, and The Victory attracted no attention whatever from breeders. At the same time, Mr. Kennedy, the owner of the stud, wrote to an Australian friend recently that, with the constant in-breeding of St. Simon, and Isonomy, and Bend Or blood, it would be absolutely necessary soon to go to some of the oldfashioned lines for an out-cross, so as to restore the stamina, temper, and staying power of the stock. For this reason he was sending some good mares to The Victory, in the hope of getting something in the way of a good mare to use with his own stallions.