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, ] • | , | . , : i i . ; | i ] i | 1 i i i i I LEADING SIRES OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. It is interesting to note that the stallion Wodl Winder was an easy first in Austria-Hungary in the t91S racing season, twelve of his get having won twenty-seven races worth, roughly, about 13,500 pounds. His stock have only been running for three seasons in the land of his exile, for the St. Leger winner was only sold by Colonel Baird in 1900. Like Polymelus, the chief winning stallion iu this country. Wool Winder is a tail-male descendant of Bend Or. Polymelus goes back to the 1880 Derby winner via Cyllene and Bona Vista, whereas Wool Winder is a remove nearer to Bend Or. being by the battels sou Martagon. In addition to Wool Winder, there is another Martagon horse in the Austrian winning sire list in Sorrento, which stands eighth. Sorrento, like Wool Winder, Wuffy. Bal-sarroch and other sons of Martagon, was a good stayer, and won the Hungarian St. Leger. Second i.i Wool Winder among the winning sires out there is Fall., which, according to "Deutscher Sport." met with a mishap recently and was destroyed. Fall was by the imported English horse Matchbbox the chief rival of Ladas in the latters three-year-old season out of a daughter of The Palmer, and in the course of eleven seasons his stock won over 500 races of the aggregate value of about 117,000 pounds. Several other English-bred stallions besides Wool Winder are prominent in the winning list. Gascony, for instance, comes third with about 6,866 pounds to his credit. Although not a great race horse. Gascony won some good races here before he was sent abroad, and he is a beautifully-bred one. being by Kendal out of Gas. He was the first foal of his dam. which subsequently produced Valve, and a greater still in the Derby winner. Cicero. Sundridge crops up among the leaders in Austria, finishing seventh, and Rising Class and Slieve Gallion are tenth and eleventh. Rising ibi~s" i winners of eight races won among them just over 4.000 poaada, and this much-travelled son of Isinglass should come in for attention on the part of breeders next season in Ireland. Other English but Set in the first seventeen are Raeburn and Womb well. The formers comparatively low place fifteenth compared with the time when only a few seasons ago he beaded tile list, thanks to Ra-cal. his champion son. must be put down to increasing fears, for he will be twenty-six January 1. Womb-well, which, like Raeburn. is one of the Duke of Portlands breeding, stands seventeenth. — London Sportsman.
