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ONE OF AUSTRALIAS GREAT BREEDERS. We are slew in the old country and a nian may c-.me "boase" from the antipodes, tbOUgl he has never been "home" before, and find the- ohl people-carrying cm just as if nothing had happened, and his arrival was but a matter e.f ordinary course. Nevertheless, he will also Iind that gradiully it becomes known that he has arrived, and not so very long afterwards people are sorry they did not know ab-itit it oarlii-r. This is partly due to our insular stupidity, but more so to the fact that people who radiate out to the cire-umference of an empire find themselves more immediately recog-nize-d than those that cluster to the "hub" of it. Anyhow. I do not think many people in this country as yet know that Mr. Edward Reginald White, of the big Mc-rton Estate, New South Wales, has been in England for some months and has never been here before. Goodness knows what he has not done for bloodstock bleeding out there-, where Flavits, Ke-nilworth anil En Garde are at present his successful stallions. The Morton Estate comprises about 9.000 ac-re-s on the Hunter river near Muswellbrook. but besides that Mr. White has enormous properties devoted to dairy farming on the share system. It would in-difficult to sum up all that he has done for the good of the- colony. The butter factory opened by him at Benham is now a great success. He is president of the Upper Hunter Agricultural Society, and many year-, before this war formed a scjuadron of Light Horse at Muswellbrook, of which he was captain — and perhaps still is — but he- now has a son out in Flanders at the- front, and I dont know how the Muswellbrook military organization has pro-ceeded. All this, however, is simply t.i introduce Mr. White- to my re-ade-rs. and. as he is to stay in England two or three months, I hope many of them will meet him. Bat I must say tit once that, he hasnt the slightest idea that I am writing this. for lie is ill in bed with lumbago or something of the sort, and I am taking details out of arcana iu my own office. Mr. White was born in 1S09. so that he has no business to have lumbago en- any other ailment yet awhile, and probably weeiild never have had it bat for having dared for the first time the English climate. He is. however, one of those men to Whom troubles are trifles — at least. I fancy so — and I may now pass on te say that Mr. White commenced his Morton Stud in" 1.S97 with mares bought from Mr. Frank Reynolds, who was so greatly associated with Brace Lews in the foundation of the "Figure- Guide." which, as I have always said, is invaluable from the A. B. C. point of view, but is no mote conclusive in itself than is the A. P.. C. railway guide to anyone who wished to make a cross-country journey. It was in 1897 that Mr. White bought Dalnieny. by Foxhall out of Bagdad, by Cameliard out of Louise, by Marsvas out of Seclusion, from Lord Reesobcry. anil this sire - thanks, no doubt, to his dam — attained to considerable success; but. after sc-vcral other purchases, gen d ol.l Flavus. which me»st of us remember in England, has come flllt on top. He is by Hampton Aloara, by Albert Victor. En Garde, which is also at Mr. Whites stud, is the in. .st extraordinarily bred horse- in the world, for 1- is by St. Simon out of tie- only Colonial man that ever was mate-el with St. Simon, and she. mark you. was Engagement, sister to martini Henri, by Musket out of Sylvia, by Fisherman. If I were breeding in Australia I should stick like a leech to every filly by En Garde of reasonable shapes, for here is the best of the old sandwiched up with the new. The greatest S.: ■ ss among Mr. Whites recent importations is Kenll worth, by Child wick out of Kizil Kourgan, whose two year olda are among the best in Australia. By the latest mail conies tie 11. -ws that a Kenilworth. carrying a ten pound penalty, only just misseci the December stakes by a half length after being bully interfered with a hundred yards from homo. This colt is consiib-rec! tie- best two-year-Old ni Australia. Kenilworth himself was originally so named in France, where he won first-class long distance races. For Mini-reaseeii his name- was changed t" Bonne- Chaii-e, anil under that name he lau iu England iu 1910. Mr. White, however, preferred the old name. Kenilworth. and resumed it when he bought the horse four ye-ars ago. The stock of Flavus was well to the fore at the Tattersalls Randwick mee-ting last December, as they ween three races, including the Cup. Last se-ason there were thirty-five winners by Flavus, which accounted for 10S races, worth s.n7." sovereigns in stakes. En Garde had sixteen winners of thirty-seven races. Keailwortha OeMest stock are only thre-e ye-ars old at present, but he looks like- holding a high place among winning stallions for the current season. These matters are merely introductory, of course, and my reason for mentioning them is my wish that all good fl tends should get to know Mr. White before he goe-s ba -k to Australia. Remember, he has never been to England before; but it is his "home." — "The Special Commissioner" in London Sportsman.
