ENGLISH STUD NEWS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1524, 10 July 1919, Page 9

ENGLISH STUD NEWS.

The Government Stud-bred horses just now are on the flood tide of success, The Panther, Mount Royal and All Alone being splendid advertisements for Royal Realm. When the “Ambassador” of the “Sportsman” visited the studs in Ireland three years ago he had nothing but praise for Royal Realm, who he then described as the most handsome stallion'

he had seen since Persimmon. He predicted a big success at the stud for Royal Realm, and his judgment seems to be fulfilled. Col. Hall Walker in giving the Government such a horse as Royal R.ealm has done a big service to racing and the State. The “Special Commissioner” of the paper referred to, in referring to the success of the Two Thousand Guineas winner, had the following bearing on the breeding of that colt: “Mention of the inheritance by The Panther of a certain idiosyncracy in his sire’s temperament reminds me that into the other side of his pedigree a consideration of another kind entered. His dam, Countess Zia, is a daughter of Gallinule and Order of Merit, by Collar, and although such breeding as this ought to have ensured her against any such failing, she certainly was under grave suspicion on the score of softness as a racehorse. Her best performance was to run second to Blue Stone at Newbury, but she never reproduced that form, and contrived to convey a very distinct impression that she lacked courage. Colonel Hall Walker, however, is not deficient

in that desirable attribute, and now we see the vindication of his belief that Countess Zia, mated with Tracery, would prove a success at the stud. She is certainly a beautiful mare, and her dam, Order of Merit, is thought to be in foal to Amadis, an alliance which ought to be productive of a colt or filly out of the common.” Great Sport is going to make a name for himself at the stud judging by the way several of his representatives have been shaping. One of the most promising of his gets is the filly Most Beautiful, who ran such a creditable third to Surcoat and Mount Royal in the Newmarket Two-Year-Old Plate, as she was clearly one of the most backward of those stripped. Great Sport was one of the prominent figures in the memorable Derby of 1913, when Craganour won and Aboyeur got the race through the first-mentioned bumping and boring. Quite a number of the sons and daughters of The Tetrarch have attempted to stay a mile this season and failed. Stefan the Great in the Two Thousand Guineas is mentioned in the “Sportsman” as the chief case in point. The exceptions go to prove the rule occasionally, as with the case of Tetra Colon, who secured first run on White Heat in the Vyner Plate °t Hurst Park, and got the mile well. Fourfold, a daughter of The Tetrarch,

failed ignominiously in the One Thousand, so it would seem that very few of The Tetrarchs are likely to stay. Lady Torrington has always beea a staunch believer in the staying qualities of her three-year-old All Alone, who gave his rivals a taste of his enduring powers when winning the Durham Handicap of a mile and five furlongs in a canter at Hurst Park. Her ladyship was equally sanguine that the son of Royal Realm would not disgrace himself in the Derby. It. was a very fair performance for a three-year-old to win over such a distance of ground so early in May. The market disclosed the fact that he was very much fancied for that event.