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RIGHTLY BLOWING IRELANDS HORN HORNOur Our home affairs have paled into insignificance compared with the happenings at Epsoui The Derby was without doubt the most sensational of the se ¬ ries but amidst all the circumstances there clearly stands forth the fact that Ireland played more than her usual conspicuous part in the classic Surely all our hiberiiiau triumphs crystallized in the great achievement that Iwth lirst and second as the horses passed the i ost were bred here All our Important handicap wins In England were as noth ¬ ing contrasted with the tremendous feat of two Irishmen disputing the issue for the worlds great ¬ est Hat race and winning the honors from the best threeyearolds in England and France Such a siore as this was bound 1o materialize for he would be a very blind and a very churlish individual who would have to confess that the wins of Irish bred horses in England iu recent years have IKHMI not only numerous but imiwrtaut Something sen ¬ sational I mean in the winning line was IKWIU to be done by Irish uoi es during laiJ and the style in which they captured nearly all the big handi ¬ caps early in the season prepared us for it It will be worth while to take stock that Bcrrllldoii bred by Mr J C Sullivan in Comity Meath won the Lincolnshire Handicap that Scots Saint by St Aidau out of Jeans Folly took the Liverpool Cup that the Limerickbred Aniiecy annexed the Great Metropolitan that the Couuty Westmeathbred Drin inore put to the credit of Mr George Edwardes the City and Suburban that the County Kildarcbrcd The Giiller provided the veteran John Osborne with his winner of the Chester Cup that the Countv Kil darebred Hornets Beauty is champion sprinter and won the Stewards Handicap at Kempton in smashing style that the Tully County Kildarebred Great Sport third in the Derbv credited Col Hall Walker with the Whitsuntide Plate at Hurst Park and that Absolute another product of Tully cap ¬ tured the Kemptou Jubilee JubileeWhat What a formidable array the preceding enumer ¬ ation makes I forgot to add that Covertcoat won an Irish triumph In the Grand National but that was only to be expected But all these important wins by Irish horses were merely the prologue to the Epsom feat of Cragaiiour and Aboyeur From a national K int of view it was entirely a matter of indifference to us which of them was declared the winner whether the judges verdict was not disturbed or as it was that it was disturbed and quite properly for Cragaiiour would have seetiifd to have caused a lot of trouble in the last quarter of n mile making Aboyeiir the winner I do not think there has ever been the like of it before that the same sire begat lirst and second horses It had been urged for long enough against Desmonl that he was Incapable of siring a classic winner but that theory has been flattened out so to say Desmond has made cm all sit up and take notice of his claims His stud record is quite remarkable and he made his own way He did not came from the racecourse with the honors of a brilliant ca ¬ reer thick upon him Lord Dunravon started him at a fee of 25 sovs and there was some talk early In the season that in due course the 250 sovs at which the son of St Simon now stands will eventu ¬ ally be increased to 100 sovs As sires fees go nowadays the services of the Fort Inion champion aro monkeySome worth the monkey Some halfdozen years or so ago an offer of 40000 sovereigns was made Ixrnl Dunraven for Desmond by the Germans 1 think but his lord ship would not entertain it The Germans nur therefore be given the credit of being very far seeing and from a market point of view had they obtained Desmond for that big sum they would have Invested their money wisely Following atop of the scoro by his sous iu the Derby Desmond had the 5000 guineas colt Storuoway winning the Great Surrey Foal Stakes for him so that one way or another the Fort Union champion had a great week weekAboyeur Aboyeur in winning at 100 to 1 followed the example of Jcddah but the case of the two horses was not on all fours for Jcddah wou comfortably while Aboyeur of course received the prize only on the disqualification from tlrst place of Craganour As well as bciug Irishbred iu every sense of ihe word AlK yetir was Irish trained for Tom Lewis who has charge of the Xetheravou stable Is a native of Co Down in the province of Ulster and he trained for long enough at the Curragh before removing to England At the Curragh he was righthand man to Mr T Gisborne Gordon when that gentleman resided at Brownstown before moving to his present place at Knocknagarm Lewis has been mentioned as having won the Cambridgeshire twice with Christ ¬ mas Daisy so he did but most writers have over ¬ looked the fact that when he led back the son of Vitez after the colts second suecess that was Lewiss third score in the big handicap That race he won for the lirst time as far back as 1S01 with Comedy who was owned by Mr W Fulton FultonIt It has received due publicity that Aboyeur was bred by Mr T K Laidlaw who has several horses in training at the Currngh with Michael Dawsou in Co Dublin and that Mr James Daly bought the colt from him Mr Peard in turn secured the future Derby winner from the Master of the Harts town Stud Mr Peard purchasing the son of Des ¬ mond on behalf of Mr Cunliffe CunliffeThere There is not a sounder judge of a racer or chaser than Mr Peard Twice only I believe has he been requested to purchase a likely classic winner for his friends and on each occasion the horses he chose fulfilled the requirements of those on whose behalf the purchase was made When Mr Pilkington was anxious to become the owner of a classic winner he consulted Mr Peard on the matter and told the latter gentleman to procure for him the best yearling in Ireland Where there is always a big selection of highclass youngsters that was something of a tall order but eventu ¬ ally Mr Peard found at Tully Co Kildare a colt bv Persimmon out of Lady Lightfoot by Isin ¬ glass her dam Glare dam of Flair Lesbia Vivid Prince Steel etc by Ayrshire That breeding looked all right and personally the yearling seemed to fill the bill The purchase was made for 2000 sovereigns or guineas I forget which and the yearling by Persimmon passed into the owner ¬ ship of Mr T Pilkington PilkingtonThe The youngster was afterwards given the name of Prince Palatine and has won the St Legor as well as nine other races Mr Peards second at ¬ tempt at buying a classic horse was Aboyeur Irish bred horses were in smashing form on the third day of Epsom when Short Grass Storuoway Prince Palatine and Drinmore all won races Dublin Letter to London Sportsman
