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KILBR0NEY A GREAT NEW ZEALAND SIRE. Kilbroney, which most of us will remember winning the Goodwood Cup in 1911 and running a good race with Lemberg for the Doncaster Cup, has been doing great things as a stallion in New Zealand. At the Wellington Racing Clubs meeting on April 19 last his son, Kilboy, won tho New Zealand St. Leger Stakes, and his two-year-old son, Kilfinn, won the North Island Challenge Stakes. This was followed up by yet another Kilbroney, the three-year-old gelding, Kilkce, which won the Tinahon Handicap in a big field. On April 21, tho second day of the meeting, Kilboy scored a second time by taking the Trentham Gold Cup of 1,000 sovereigns, two miles: and on the same dav. at the South Canterbury Jockey Clubs meeting, "Kilboyne, a three-year-old gelding by Kilbroney, won the Scadown Welter Handicap. Mr. J. B. Keid secured a treasure indeed when ho bought Kilbroney from Lord St. Davids, and the little horse seems to be destined to establish a special line of Ormonde and Orme at the Antipodes. His sire, The Wag; was by Orme Plaisanterie, and consequently was a brother to Topiary dam of Tracery. His dam,. Innismakil, is by Laveno Mamyo. by My Lud son of King Lud The Sabine, by Xenophon. It is a somewhat outbred pedigree, though Kilbroney himself is of No. 2 family. It would seem to be plain enough that Orme and Plaisanterie came together with results that should come prominently into turf history, and in Kilbroneys case the No. 19 blood of Plaisanterie and Monarquo was met by the same figure on the dams side through King Lud. This all makes for stoutness. Kilbroney is only ten years old now. It cannot bo said that he ever looked like making a successful stallion any more than did Hampton in his early days, but no man ever lived who could anticipate such contingencies with any approach to certainty. It would be worth bearing in mind that The Wag is half-brother to Childwick, but tho Orme touch made ids success, as it did that of his sister. Topiary. There are no Rock Sand mares in the 1915 volume of the New Zealand Stud Book and only one Melton, but either of these lines would suit Kilbroney well. Loudon Sportsman.
