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CESARI0N POPULAR IN AUSTRALIA. The success of that fine colt Mehruda on Saturday at Canterbury Park draws attention to a really womierful horse m his sire, the American-bred stallion Cesarion, to which I have often referred to previously. Cesarion, which was bought privately by his present owner, John Hart Of 1. ail» it West Maitl-ind. has proved a profitable purchase. There has always been keen competition for the yearlings sent into the ring by him. and his most recent winner Mehruda. realized 540 guineas last •aster, at which price he is now a cheap colt. It is really a case of the "entertaining of an Bagel unawares- with Australian breeders, and Cesarion. though far-seeing owners in .1. 11. Barnes. Muirhead l.ros.. J. R. Mackay, and others have patronized the horse, w hose- record as a sire of two-year-old winners is far in front of that of any other sire in Australia at the present time. This seems rather a bald statement to make, but it is one borne- out by bets, ami the- number of early ra -es won in America by the stock of Cesarion la almost phenomenal. I .,in ghld to say that by the- victory of Mehruda my stock of hats is, or will be in the near future, increased by one. as I took this colt to be the first winner of a two-year-old rate against another Cesarion selected by a prominent New Zealand and Australian racing man. His se .eetion was the oh »t-nut colt Great Caesar, which has not yet Started. Mr. Hart can look forward to getting good competition tor any good looking .-sarions he will market this pear, and among his band is a line sister to the Canterbury winner Mehruda. — "Headiugley" in Sydney Referee of Jan. 10.
