IMPORTATION OF BLOOD STOCK.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1338, 16 December 1915, Page 12

IMPORTATION OF BLOOD STOCK.

Mr. W. G. Stead, of Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, recently purchased in England three yearlings, a two-year-old and a three-year-old, all fillies, and is going the right way to build up a strong stud. The fillies are to arrive in Auckland on the 30th of the present month, just when racing is in full swing here, and no doubt many lovers of the thoroughbred will take the opportunity of looking them over. No. 1 is a three-year-old by Llangwin (winner of £10,600 in stakes, a son of the Orme horse Missle Thrush, who has left a number of winners of late in England) from Valve (a full-sister to Bezonian and half-sister to Cicero, the Derby winner). Valve was a winner of three races at two years’ old, and is the dam of Sanquahar, imported by Sir George Clifford, and Vancluse, winner of the .One Thousand Guineas. Valve’s dam, Gas, is threequarter sister to Ladas, winner of the

Derby and Two Thousand Guineas, etc. No. 2is a yearling by Llangwin, dam Chelys, by Sir Visto, half-brother to Velasquez, from Chelandry, by Goldfinch from Illuminate. Chelys won £l5OO in stakes and is the dam of two winners. No. 3 is a two-year-old by Marco, sire of Bronzino, King Mark and other horses imported to the colonies, and of Neil G'ow, winner of £25,000 at two and three years old, and other winners of £107,278. Oriole, dam of this filly, won £3OOO at three years old, and is by Ladas, who in 1914 was second on the list of sires of winning brood mares, and her dam, Orle, produced also Lovelike, winner of the Prince of Wales Staikesl, £2400, and her granddam Bonny Jean won the Oaks, and comes of the same family as Desmond and Zinfadel, No. 16. Oriole is the dam of S ; r Oracle, who has won upwards of £lOOO. No. 4is a yearling by Sunstar, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, and from the same family as Ard Patrick and Galtee More, Rosicrucian and The Palmer. The Broom is the dam of Garaveen, placed in the Gimcrack, Seaton Delaval and Woodcotte Stakes, and second in the Tattenham Plate, and her dam, Voluminia, is half-sister to Isoletta, granddam of Bayardo (£ 44,000) and Lemberg (£40,000). No. 5 is by Bayardo from Alicia, by Bend Or (Derby), dam Alex (dam of Rocbourne), by Hagioscope from Grand Duchess (sister to Sweet Duchess and Your Grace (dam of Your Majesty, Leger and Eclipse Stakes winner), Our Lassie (Oaks), and granddam of Sunfire (£5000). Three of the fillies were foaled last year, one in 1913 and the other in 1912, and they should be a decided acquisition to Mr. Stead’s stud in New Zealand.