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BEND ORS FAMOUS SON KENDAL DIES. Features in tho History of tho Horse that Leads South American Sires. London, Eng.. October 14. Kendal, the news of whose death at the Ojo de Agua Stud has just been received from the Argentine, was foaled at Eaton in 1SS3, so that he was in his twenty-sixth year. He ranks as one of the notable horses of his day and generation, not because of what he did on the race track though he was no mean performer but because of his achievements as a sire. As to his racing abilities, there is no doubt they were very considerable, but an accident he met with in tho autumn of his two-year-old career necessitated his being prematurely turned out of training. Prior to this misfortune, he had Avon the Mostyn Plate at Chester, finished second to Saraband for the New Stakes at Ascot, won the -Post Sweepstakes at Stock-bridge, the July Stakes at Newmarket, the Ham Stakes at Goodwood, the Convivial Stakes at York, and walked over for the Municipal Stakes at Don-caster. After this, he went slightly amiss, and was not himself when beaten for the Rous Memorial at the Newmarket First October meeting. However, when he returned home to Kingsclere. it was deemed worth while to include him in the little party told off to test the merits of Ormonde. The trial, over six furlongs, took place on October 7. and Kendal, carryiug 119 pounds, beat Ormonde, with 120 pounds in the saddle, by a length. John Porter, in his book "Kingsclere." describes this gallop as a "rudimentary rough-up." This was the first occasion on which Ormonde had been stripped, "and he was not very fit." Anyhow, it was because of his failure to get the belter of Kendal that Ormonde was tho following week started for the Post Sweepstakes instead of the Middle Park Plate. The late Mr. Joseph Osborne, in his handbook, states that before he ran at Goodwood. Kendal had been twice tried, and proved to be better than Ormonde, but he was evidently mistaken both as to the date and the number of the alleged trials. Anyway, John Porter makes no mention of a second trial, and he would surely have done so if it had taken place. Whether or no, nobody would, of course, venture to place Kendal on so high a pedestal as that Ormonde occupied. But without doing so we can allow that he was a high-class individual. After his breakdown the late Mr. John Gubbins paid the late Duke of Westminster a high price for him. and for several years the son of Bend Or and Windermere was quartered at the Knockany Stud, County Limerick. It was while there that he sired his most famous son. Galteo More, winner of tho "triple crown." Subsequently. Kendal was acquired by Mr. .Tames E. Piatt, and for a few seasons stood at the Bruntwood Stud In Cheshire. His fee was raised in 1S99 to ,500. In 1901 Mr. Piatt sold the horse to the proprietors of the Ojo de Agua Stud in the Argentine, whither Cyllene and Polar Star went only recently, and where Pietermaritzburg died at tne beginning of the present year. The South Americans gave 540.000 for Kendal, and as he was eighteen years old at the time they were In many quarters held to have made a dear bargaio. As a matter of fact they made a fine profit out of the deal. Kendals yearlings made big prices when offered for sale in Buenos Ayres. He wound up last season second in the list of winning sires In the Argentine, and this year he is at the head of the list, or was a few weeks ago. It may be recalled that in 1S97 he was at the head of the list of stallions in England wltn a total of 44,250. Mr. Gubbins sold Galtee More to the Russian government for 00,000. and two or three years ago the horse was transferred to the Germans for a consideration of 1908.sh0,000. In Green-lawn, which stands at the Hermitage Stud, near Arundel, Kendal has. however, a worthy sou to represent him in his native land.
