A HIGHLY-BRED HORSE FOR AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1498, 9 January 1919, Page 31

A HIGHLY-BRED HORSE FOR AUCKLAND.

By an early steamer from the Old Land it is expected that another thoroughbred will arrive in Auckland to the order of Mr. J. N. Heslop, who imported Polydamon. The colt is Arrowsmith, now four years old to English time. He was bred and raced in England by Mr. J. W. Larnach, a steward of the English Jockey Club, and won the first division of the Linton Plate at two years old at Newmarket, and ran second in the Wynyard Plate to Treclare and was fourth in the Dewhurst Plate to My Dear. He was unplaced in several other races at that age, and at three years ■old unsuccessful in about half a dozen races, and was eighth in the Derby won by Gainsborough. Taking a line through that colt and Prince Chimay. his three-year-old form makes him quite two stone below that of either of those colts. Arrowsmith will go into the stables of J. Lambess at Ellerslie on arrival, and will be given a trial with a view to being raced in New Zealand. If he should fail in the racing department he will be retired to the stud, and being by Chaucer, the successful son of St. Simon and Canterbury Pilgrim, dam of Pilgrim’s Progress and other good horses, from Sagitta, full-sister to John o’ Gaunt (sire of Swynford, winner of £25,508 in stakes), by Isinglass (winner of over £57,000) from La' Flech (winner of over £35,000), he comes from a great running and’sire family that gave us Musket, so that on the score of breeding he should be a great acquisition to the stud, his ultimate destination.