MR. G. P. DONNELLY’S YEARLINGS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1384, 2 November 1916, Page 9

MR. G. P. DONNELLY’S YEARLINGS.

Breeders and racehorse owners alike will be interested, to learn that in December next Mr. G. P. Donnelly will have a draft of thirteen thoroughbred yearlings in the market, twelve of the number being by his imported sire Demosthenes, whose first crop of yearlings so captivated the attention of buyers and connoisseurs of the thoroughbred at the sale at Alexandra Park last season. Simonides, one of the number, who was sold for 500 guineas, has already justified the good opinion formed of him, and in each of his races has displayed exceptional pace, and his win at Trentham on the almost straight course showed him in a most attractive light. In the lot advertised on another page are nine fillies, three geldings and one colt, one of the geldings being by Formative, son of Seaton Delaval and Multiform’s full-sister Formula, who is the dam of the first lot, a brown filly, and whose daughter, Formality, by Gold Reef, is the dam of the chestnut colt by Demosthenes, who throws to Gold Reef and Fonno in the matter of colour. These two lots- trace back to -the great Formosa, member of the Ellerdale branch of the 18 family, while there are two geldings and a filly from the famous Flora MclvorFrailty branch of the same line, and

it may be remembered that there have been no greater exponents of it in the Old Land than we have had in the colonies. The filly is from the Castor mare Edith Curlton, and the geldings respectively are from that mare’s daughter, Lady Delaval, who was by Seaton Delaval (imp.), and another daughter, Gold Bound, by Gold Reef. Then there are three fillies of the No. 4 line, two of them from mares by Gold Reef tracing back to Pearl Ash (imp.), and from whom and her daughters have descended so many first-class racehorses, including Gaulus and Grafter (Melbourne Cup winners), the other filly being from imported Stressa, daughter of Orvieto and the St. Simon mare St. Mildred. A filly from Kautuku, a winner, like her dam, Como, from the Spray line, which has been one of the best colonial families, is also in the list, and there are two fillies that trace back to Mersey, the dam of Carbine, through Oppiden, a daughter of The Rand and Etona, by Castor, whose dam, Lady Walmsley, was a full-sister to that mighty horse. Later on we shall see these yearlings and have more to say. They are pronounced a fine lot.