MOUNTAIN KNIGHT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1334, 18 November 1915, Page 12

MOUNTAIN KNIGHT.

Mountain Knight, who was seriously injured while running in the Melbourne Cup, is a horse that cannot well be spared, and, according to an exchange, an attempt is being made to save him for stud purposes. He is but an early four-year-old, and his form was so consistent that he had but seldom run unplaced. At two years old he won a Nursery Handicap at Sydney Tattersall’s meeting, and was placed on five other occasions. Improving in the interim, Mountain Knight won at three years old the A.J.C. Derby, V.R.C. Linlithgow Stakes, C. B. Fisher Plate, St. Leger, A.J.C. St. Leger, and Place Handicap, which, together with place money in the Chelmsford Stakes, St. George’ Stakes, C. M. Lloyd Stakes, and Cumberland Stakes, brought his winnigs in stake money to £11,196. Mountain Knight is owned by the New Zealand sportsman, Mr. E. J. Watt, who purchased him as a yearling for 210gns. He was got by Mountain King from La Veille, by Mostyn from Vigil, by Trenton from Nightmare, by Panic, and is a Number 9 horse, and so far none of the male members of the Nightmare —Evening Star line have proved successful at the stud, nor has the Number 9 family proved a good sire line at Home or in the colonies. There may be some good representatives to come, nevertheless.