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I i • REVIVAL OF NEWMINSTERS MALE LINE. Only a few years ago the line of Newminster was much on the decline and it almost looked as though the once great rival family to that of Stockwcll u was destined to peter out, much in the same way I as another famous line, that of Beadsman, had d done. Yet in the sixties, seventies and eighties no one would have dreamed that the male line of Newminster would ever cease to flourish. Iu the sixties and seventies, for example, he was represented .i at the stud by the Derby winner. Hermit, the St. Leger winner, Lord Clifden, and such other well-known r horses as Vesjiasian, Adventurer, Cathedral. Victorious. Cardinal York and Strathconan. Adventurer ,_ was the sire of the Two Thousand Guinea* and Derby winner. Pretender, and amongst others of the flying mares Apol- gy and Wheel of Fortune. • Lord Clifden gave us Janet tc tOaksi. Wenlock St. Leger. Winslow and. last but not least, rare old j Hampton. Hermit became the sire of many cquin stars, his fillies especially earning him much fame. : Shotover. heroine of the Derby and Two Thousand " of 1882. was by Hermit, as were also the Oaks win 1 ners, Thebais and Lonely, of which the former also 0 won the One Thousand, a classic taken by another Hermit mare in St. Marguerite. These are only ■v some of the big winners descended in tail malo 0 from Newminster. I do not pretend to give a a complete list of them here, my only idea being to °, show the eminence of the line in the latter part of ■ last century. With the advent of Bay Ronald the Hampton tor liiird Clifden I branch of the line of Newminstci may be said to have entered upon a new period o prosperity. Himself a winner of the City and Suburban. " Bay Ron.- Id at the stud sired Bayardo St. Leger. Ascot Gold Cup. etc. i and Dark Ronald •! Royal Hunt Cup and Princess of Wales Stakes, It and amongst others a good race horse and stallion n in France — in which country he died in 1907 — iu u the shape of Macdouald II. Bayardo has already V done well at the stud, but at the moment Dark k Ronald, which liegan as a stallion a year previously, . stands out with greater prominence. His stock have only been running for three seasons and during that period thev have won forty-four races inclusive of if :i dead heat i. of the total value of nearlv 21.001 sovereigns. Now that we have seen among Dark Ronalds get. amongst others, such winners as Vau-cluse t One Thousand Guineas. Son-in-Law Goodwood Cup. Cesarcwitch, etc.. Ambassador. My y Ronald ami Brown Ronald, one can only regret that ,l such a promising stallion should have been sold to ll the Germans in 1913. after only four seasons of " stud life here. Fortunately Dark Ronald was a a prepotent sire and his last crop of foals sired in in this country now yearlings i numbered thirty-two. — — "Vigilant" in London Sportsman.
