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HURRY. ON A TRULY REMARKABLE COLT. This years substitute for the Doncaster St. Leger the September Stakes was run at Newmarket, September 13, and was won in a canter by Hurry On, with the Two Thousand Guineas winner," Clarisshnus, second. There is no better judge of a race horse in England than William Allison, and this is what lie said about Hurry On in London Sportsman after the race: "The question arises if we have ever seen such a big, powerful, not to say massive, horse as Hurry On win the St. Leger since Stockwolls day, and it is especially satisfactory that witli his great size and power he should combine immense bone and iterfeet action. What height he stands I do not exactly know, but it must be little if at all under 10.3, and yet his dam was cer-tainy under fifteen hands, but just the sort to breed one any size. She is unforunately dead. It seems to me that Hurry On will take rank with the best of classic winners, for there is no doubt that W. Waugh thought that Clarisshnus could not be- beaten today, and Atheling cantered down looking all over like a winner; but they never really extended Hurry On, which won with consummate ease as soon as lie was asked to do so. The time of the race was 2:59, and the winner could have made it several second faster bad lie been ridden out. It is the first time for a good many years that a tail-male descendant of Melbourne has come so strikingly to the front, and it is a fortunate event for the further successful breeding of our bloodstock, as Hurry On will beyond question make a magnificent stallion, and possibly inaugurate a new era, just as did Galopiu and St. Simon in succession of Stockwell. I was asked today how it can have happened that Hurry On is such a big colt, and I think he gets Iiis size mainly from his paternal grandam, Lady Villikins, which was a big, powerful mare, built to some extent on the same lines. Then, too, he has probably derived some of bis size and bulk from Springfield, his maternal great-grand-sire, which got a really elephantine horse in Watercress. It is notable that Marcos dam was a small mare, as was the. actual dam of Hurry On, which I have known from his earliest days, for lie was foaled at Cobham, where Mr. Murland sent the dam on a visit to Flotsam. It is in accordance with Flotsams bad luck that the marc should have died later on. Canyon today went down rather short, but I think she was well enough, but the One Thousand Guineas form has been persistently overrated. Flaming Fire ran quite a good race and came near to finishing in front of Atheling, but I suppose it must be admitted that he is not a top-sawyer. However, as far as can be judged at present. Hurry On is a regular Ormonde, and Fred Darling deserves more than ordinary commendation for having brought such a colt to the front for a mile and three-quarters race at the zenith of condition. He showed not the slightest sign of distress after his race, and now that his points are set and hardened there is no reason why he should not train on into a cup horse next year. It has, I know, been Mr. Buchanans ambition for many years to have a horse good enough to become a really top-class stallion, and he has now got one. Mr. Jduirland, the breeder of Hurry On, should also come in for his share of public congratulations, and it is not so long since lie was in the limelight as the breeder of Sunbright. It is given to few to be so fortunate with a small stud of about a half dozen mares. Atheling probably" does not get the course; but-Clarissimus. ran his race out honestly, and he has evidently forgotten the dressing lie received the last time he was out. Canyon was badly beaten into last place, but she has done enough for fame and will make a charming broodmare.
