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AUSTRALIAS LATEST ACQUISITION. Foreign demand for high-class English horses has . of late years been wonderfully keen, and extravagant outlays have been made in their purchase, chiellv by buyers from the Argentine. On the other band." the desire to acquire thoroughbred bloodstock for Australia has to a considerable extent diminished, but .111 important deal took place when Mr. Green recently purchased White Star from .Mr. J. B. Joel and, despite his dis:ipointiug racing career, lie may turn out .1 splendid bargain as a sire. He Is. as isprettv well known, an own brother to Sunstar, bv Sundridge out of Doris, aud resembles him not a little, though perhaps not built 011 quite such big lines. In height he stands fully an inch less than his brilliant relative, but this deficiency is counterbalanced by extra depth and heart room. In color he is dark brown with not a speck of white about him and. like most of Ids sires progeny, be is furnished with immense bone and the best of legs and feet. In ioint of general appearance it would be ditlicult to fault him. .His intelligent-looking head is supported bv a good neck s.t Into perfect shoulders, with back and quarters as strong as a little dray horse in short, the beau ideal of a stallion of superb quality. He was certainly one of the best of his age as a two-year-old, but on several occasions was very severely run, while In the early spring of his second season he was tried ?o that his classic engagements were anticipated with the utmost confidence and complacency. I low he failed is a matter of history and requires no detailed comment here and, bearing in mind the character of his brother for Indomitable pluck and his own bull-dog pluck, which stood him 111 such good stead in his juvenile days, the only way to account for his failures in public seems to be that his hard races had not been forgotten and had engendered lu him a dislike for the game. In face of his high trials in private It can hardly be set down to actual deterioration. Mr. Joel is so well supplied with Sundridge blood, having a brilliant successor to that famous horse in Sunstar. that it Is not surprising 1 he should have parted with White Star, while isV regards his sire there were valid reasons for letting W him go to France, for he had been by no means cor- tain with his mares and. moreover, .when purchased by M. Cherl Halbronn the supreme merit of his son Simstar. had not betrayed itself. "Vigilant" in London Sportsman.
