FIGHT BETWEEN STALLIONS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1241, 29 January 1914, Page 11

FIGHT BETWEEN STALLIONS.

PRINCE FOOTE AND SIMILE. The stallion Simile lately came by his death (writes a Newcastle correspondent) as the result of a fight with another horse at Mr. John Brown’s stud farm at Wittingham. Simile got into the enclosure occupied by Prince Foote, and the two stallions fought viciously for some time before being parted. Simile was savagely attacked by the Cup winner, and received such severe injuries that Mr. Brown ordered him to be shot.

Simile was by St. Simon from Mimi, winner of the Oaks, by Barcalo me out of a daughter by Lord Lyon and Sadie by Foltigem. He was the sire of Sunlike, winner of the Carrington Stake’s and second in-the Doncaster Handicap; Baw Bee; winner of Breeders Plate and Summer Cup; and of Hayfield,' Cissie,' Simile Maid, ami others. He was looked upon as one of the best bred St. Simon horses

Luat ever came to Australia. He .vas foaled in 1897, and was full-orother to St. Walton, who was sold lor fifteen thousand guineas.

Prince Foote showed no ill-effects of the fight, and was not even marked. RACING IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

There was a time when the country race meetings in South Australia aroused an interstate interest, says the local correspondent of “The Australasian.” Some of the fixtures in the lower north attracted horses and men, to say nothing of ring men, from Victoria, but bad seasons, coupled with the abolition of the bookmaker, led to the abandonment of most gatherings, while others drifted into picnic affairs. However, during the last year or two country racing men have begun to realise that the totalisator was really the salvation of small racing clubs, and a new era has to be chronicled.