RADNOR THE CONSISTENT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1247, 12 March 1914, Page 11

RADNOR THE CONSISTENT.

Mr. S. P. Mackay is one of fortune’s favourites just now. He has had his share of bad luck, but gets a big slice of good as a rule. The three-year-old colt Radnor, by Earlston from Burletta, was sore as the result of racing hard in the spring when Mr. Mackay bought him, but he has won quite a number of important events since, and on Saturday finished up by winning the much-coveted Champion Stakes in record time for the race, viz., sm‘n. 22% sec., or at the rate of lmin. 47% sec. per mile. The Australasian record for the distance is smin. 22%5ec., and Radnor’s time is only a quarter of a second ou’side, and is within half a second of the world’s record for the distance held by Elie since 1905, when that horse carried but 7.2. Here we find a small field of horses, and none of them quite in the same class of cracks that have preceded them, putting up such a strong nace nil through as to cause one of their number to establish a record in a race which is one of the oldest-established in Australasia. Radnor is bred to stay, and Earlston, his imported sire, is by the aptly, named Love Wisely, son of Wisdom from Monday, by Wenlock, a son of Lord Clifden, who it was once sought to secure for an Auckland stud. Burletta is by Wallace from La Tosca, by Robinson Crusoe from Nightmare and by Panic, and such great stayers as Commotion, Wakeful, Mentor and many more are of the same line. Bon Ton and Bon Reeve are of the same family.