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] * + •*• r ENGLISH EXPERT PREDICTS STUD SUCCESS FOR H0NEYW00D, RECENTLY PURCHASED IN ENGLAND FOR GEORGE D W. WINGFIELD OF NEVADA — _ * Jj ■ I, ii iu Ii t li a a I i; I 1 I r i 1 I j 1 I. j • « J [ • : ; • I I ; I I It has already been published that M. P. Guil- t liains. representing George W. Wingfleld. Nevada ] multi-millionaire, has purchased in England, Honey- wood, h four vear-old son of Polymelus and Honey Bird, for stud service in this country. Of the | horse and the transactions Audax writes as follows , Horse and Hound: I "As the Cambridgeshire winner. Honey wood, a 1 horse full of quality, has been purchased tor export 1 to the Cnited States for use as a stallion, it may tie of interest to many of our readers if I give 1 brief account of his chief racing iierformanees, to- j gether with a few notes on his breeding. Bred by t Mr. Sol Joel at his splendid Maiden Krlcgh Stud, j near Reading, and foaled 011 May 4. lull. Honey- , wood was sent with Mr. Joels other yearlings to ! be placed under Charles Pecks charge at Sefton j UaijBE, Newmarket. The colt began his running j career, when backward, at the Newmarket Craven . meeting .if IMS, lieing beaten three-quarters of a length by Pictorial for the Fitiwilliam Stakes with ; Carancho a lair third in a huge field. At the , Kpsom Summer meeting Honeywood started favorite for the Caterham Plate, which he won easily by two lengths from Kings Scholar, with ten others iu the rear: but at Newbury he made one of those ; Ixmgtown beat for the Berkshire Foal Stakes. At j Ascot was a close up third to Land of Song and a Marquise for the Windsor Castle Stakes, among , the remaining twenty runners being Torchlight. which was favorite, and it may here be as well to mention thai I-ind of Song the following season won the Irish Derby, after which he was sent to . Australia and turned out a really good horse, se-euring several rich events in his adopted country shortly after arriving. Honeywood next finished Fecond to Ambassador in the time-honored July Stakes at Newmarket, and was in a similar posi-tion to the sjieedv Parhelion fcr the Lavant Stakes 1 at Goodwood: hat later he won the Nottinghamshire Breeders Foal Plate, conceding twelve pounds and a half-length bea tins to Poets License. After the son of Polvmelus had finshed once more behind ongtawn. in the Manchester Autumn Breeders Foal plate, he proved too rood for First Spe.ir, Sunny lake and Dolly Vardea in the Buckenhain Stakes at Newmarket, and the following day won the l.oseawen Stakes from Ted Smith, the favorite. Brakspeare being third. Iu the Leicester County Foal Stakes 1 o naturally found the task of conceding sixteen pounds to Torchight beyond his powers, and be was also behind the same smart filly in the Free Handicap at Newmarket. •Hoik vwood did not agn.n appear in public until the following April, when, although burdened with i:t0 pounds, he was made favorite for the Hastings Plate at Newmarket, wherein he ran third to Seipio, 115 pounds, and The Gaul. 122 pounds, after which he took part in the Stewards Handicap at Epsom, won bv Sir Kdgar. and the Hurst Park Yearling Plate, which Evansdale secured. In spite of these three failures, Honeywood was greatly fancied for tie Roval Hunt Cup, in which he was a good third to Lie-a Bed and Braxted. and the colt was no doubt feeling the effects of his exertions in this race when two days later he was unplaced to Mount William for the" Wokingham Stakes. Mr. Joels colt was next seen out for the important mile and a quarter F.clipse stakes, wonli s.7:"i sovereigns, in which he anted !H*» sovereigns by running a good second at level weights — 12Ti pound-— to Hapsburg. another colt of his own age which had finished second in a field of thirty to the Preach horse, Durbar II.. in the Derbv a few weeks previously. Three lengths lK-hind lionevwood came the Two Thousand Guin- t ] | , I 1 1 1 j t j , ! j j . ; , ; j , . 1 eas winner and favorite, Keunymore, tluee-year-old. — 12S pounds, and among the ten remaining runners were the four-year-olds Cantilever and Louvois, each carrying 140. and respective winners of the Cambridgeshire and Two Thousand Guineas of 1913, while Cantilever bad also gained further fame by beating Tracery in the Jockey Club Stakes. For the mile and a quarter Duke of York Stakes at Kemp-ion Honeywood ran behind the four-year-old Nas- hi sail, which was only giving him live pounds, and, a: at having secured the Non-Stayers Plate at Liugfleld, Jj led Mr. S. Joels colt, carrying 100 pounds, got the bet- C ter of a splendid struggle for the Cambridgeshire _ Stakes, winning by a head from Ambassador, three- ! year-old, 103 pounds, which beat Diadumenos, four- •■ year-old, 101» pounds, by the same narrow margin for r si eond place. Among the unplaced ones in this ,! event were such good horses as the St. Leger win- g ucr Black Jester, the City and Suburban victor y Maiden Krlcgh. Nassau and Santair. Honeywood f was ridden by Donoghue, and started a well-fancied candidate at 100 to 7. Although the colt has been j1 out several times this year, he was never really fancied uutii he took part in the Cambridgeshire R Hunt Plate at Newmarket in July, wherein he man- . aged to finish fifth to Young Pegasus after being . kicked at the post and getting away badlv. We J. will now look through an extended pedigree of the horse, which reads as follows: Cyllene j Bona Vista ■ J j Polymelus i Arcadia J 5 • Maid Marian.. J Hampton | _ ; Quiver l I llonev Bird J ™S™ 1 werofDorse [ I Warble klark I Cotnrmx C "A charming horse to look at, and beautifully t balanced, I predict a successful stud career for this _ bay son of Polymelus by Cyllene. which begot the « of Derby winners Cicero, Lemberg. Miuoru and Taga-lie, sire of the St. Leger winner Black Jester, r Pomniern the champion three-year-old of this season and winner of the Two Thousand Guineas. New. i Derby and September Stakes, and many other good c racers, which stood at the top of the loading stallions for last year and will undoubtedly be in a r similar position at the close of the season. Honey- j wood is the last offspring of his dam Honey Bird, which died the year he was foaled. She was a half- j sister to that fine stayer, the 1904 Cesarewitch winner Wargrave, as well as to Maid of the Mint, dam of the 1006 Derby victor Spearmint, one of the , liest horses to rnn in England during this century; . while all followers of racing in the eighties re- ■ member what a brilliant performer was Friars Balaaam, the sire of Honey Bird. Mother Siegel tdani j of the Derby winner Minoru and many other sue- cessful matrons. The Figure System I have no faith . in. but for the benefit of those interested therein I may menton that Polymelus comes from the No. 3 * family and Honey Bird from No. 1 family. I under- , stand that Mr. It, P. Guilliams purchased Honey- . wocd on behalf of Mr. George W. Wingti?Id, proprietor of the Nevada Stock Farm. Reno, Nov. . It was Mr. Joels wish that the colt should remain in this country to take part in the Cambridgeshire. , for which he offered a contingency on the purchase : price, but Mr. Guilliams could not accede to this. as he was anxious to get the horse to his new home . as early as possible."
