STUD FEES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1010, 15 July 1909, Page 6

STUD FEES.

In glancing over the list of fees fixed for the service of stallions in Australia one cannot but be struck (says an exchange) with the great contrast between matters ruling there and in England in that respect. In a long list of Australia stallions before me, Positano figures as the only horse whose fee extends to three figures, and the sum fixed in his case only reaches 100 guineas. There is then a drop of 50 guineas, which is the amount opposite Multiform’s name; Haut Brion and Fortunatus, at 30 gs. each, being the other horses most prominent on the list. In England the following are the fees charged for the services of the leading stallions: — St. Frusquin, 300 guineas; Spearmint, 250 gs.; Radium, 200 gs.; Melton, 200 gs.; Gallinule, 200 gs.; Ayrshire, 200 gs.; Desmond, 200 gs.; Isinglass, 200 gs.; Zinfandel, 200 gs.; William the Third, 200 gs. A French breeder, it may be remarked, holds what has, I suppose, a right to be regarded as tne greatest gold mine in the stallion sense —viz., Flying Fox, the fee attaching to the English horse’s name being no less a sum than 600 guineas, which, it is interesting to note, is £532 more than the sum charged for the services of his sire, Orme.