CHEAP SIRE PROGENY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 957, 9 July 1908, Page 5

CHEAP SIRE PROGENY.

In England, even nowadays, a horse who proves useful as a sire is occasionally picked up at a low figure, and, touching on the success of Mr. R. Sievier’s four-year-old mare Teofani in the Stewards’ Handicap at Kempton Par, of £875, on May 15, a recent London exchange says: “Her sire Black Duck, stood at the low fee of Bsovs in 1903 when he was mated with Cigarette (Teofani’s dam). In the following December Black Duck himself was put up at auction at the Newmarket sales, and realised the trifling sum of 11 guineas. Yet in the next season (1904) one of the despised stallion’s offspring Romer, then a three-year-old, won three good handicaps, inclusive of the Derby Gold Cup, of the total value of £2205. As a two-year-old Romer had won a race worth 259sovs on the first day of the Kempton Jubilee meeting. Teofani, who likewise scored her first success at Kempton, did not run as a two-year-old, and only twice last season, while prior to last Friday she had this season run second to Gold Sand at Epsom. It should be added that after

Romer’s successful essays for his joint owners, Messrs. Joseph Davis and A. Knowles, Mr. Davis purchased Black Duck from his owner, Mr. Westgate, for 50sovs. Black Duck was foaled in 1889, and being by Galopm out of Call Duck, by Macaroni, it is not surprising that he has got stock to gallop,, although given very few chances. It may be added that he is bred on the same lines as that successful stallion, St. Angelo, who was also by Galopin out of a Macaroni mare.”