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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1314, 1 July 1915, Page 16

There were four falls at Albert Park, Adelaide, in the Cup races, but without serious results to the riders. One horse was killed, .however.

Two hundred and ninety-eight horses were nominated for the Rosehill Racing Club’s meeting, to be run last week. This is not a proprietary.

Wallace is represented by nineteen of his progeny in the A.J.C. Derby of 1916. There are a dozen horses with ten or more in the list. They are Earlston, Comedy King, Malster, Charlemagne 11., Linacre, Tressady, The Wekin, Varco, Kennelworth, Bobadil and Mountain King.

Mr. Rouse has resigned his position as a stipendiary steward appointed by the Australian Jockey Club, and his place has been filled by Mr. W. D. Gibson, for some months in a similar position in New Zealand, and prior to that in Western Australia.

Mr. N. Dickie is desirous of selling or leasing his fine upstandingthoroughbred sire Toy Gun, whose breeding is set forth in another column. The double cross of Musket is present in the pedigree of Toy Gun, who excellent stock and is a most useful type of horse. If bought or leased by anyone in or near Auckland a number of mares are assured. Mr. Dickie’s reason for wanting to dispose of Toy Gun is that he has no room on the farm for mares. The death of Mr. Arthur Standish, first Mayor of New Plymouth, a barrister and solicitor, for some time Crown Prosecutor and in the early days of Taranaki a member of the Provincial Council, took place this week. The late Mr. Standish took considerable interest in racing, and was president of the Taranaki Jockey Club for many years, and away back in the ’fifties rode as a lad and an amateur in races on the flat and over fences, and years afterwards bought and bred from a mare descended from Nora, one of the mares he had ridden, and from Mina, another Nutwell mare, the last-named being the dam of the grey performers Larry, Okato and Witiora. Normanby, Donovan, Jenny, the ’chaser Maratan, and Tukapa were others bred by Mr. Standish, who raced some on his own account and leased others to the late Mr. J. B. Williamson and to Mr. Jervis George and other Taranaki followers of racing.