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DO ROARER SIRES PRODUCE ROARERS Discussion of tlio Question of Heredity by an English Authority Thii question of whether roaring is hereditary has long been productive of discussion and while some authorities hold that it Is others scout the idea Possibly it may not be exactly hereditary but it is reasonable to suppose that tlie progeny of stallions or mares so affected are more predisposed to it than those descended from parents entirely free of such infiriiiity In Australia soine roaring sires have race horses that could get any distance but others of their descendants have whistled badly to say the least of if Bright Steel was credited with being a whistler when he left Eng ¬ land but probably the Australian climate benefited him Anyhow those who scoff at the hereditary idea can point oiit that his mating with Trinkett fa mare tubed for roaring early in her career gave tlio Australian turf a Melbourne Cup winner in Westcniirt and that others of Bright Steels sons have done fairly over a distance distanceSeveral Several roarers sent from England have been stud successes in Australia arid have been represented by winners at long distances Chatting about this W Allison tlie Special Commissioner writes as follows in the London Sportsman SportsmanThere There never was a worse roarer than Bill of Portland nor was there any more successful stallion He sired a Champion Stakes winner Bobadil and a Melbourne Cup winner Merriweo and his sons Maltster and Bobadil are two of the best stallions in Australia at the present time Grafton was an ¬ other shocking roarer sent out from England and he too scored enormously as barring his wind he well might do being a halfbrother by Galoniu to Polynielns Peru liy Grafton won the Champion Stakes three miles In 190S Tartan a grandson of Prince Charlie won this race in 1905 I mention these cases not because they surprise me in the least but because so many people imagine most illogically that roarers cannot sire stayers stayersADVISES ADVISES PURCHASE OF BILL OF PORTLAND PORTLANDI I reniomber advising W K Wilson to buy an unsound class horse iJill of Portland for 1000 guineas rather than a sound mediocrity for the same uin and he took that advice with good results but on the other hand my dislike to mediocrities or bad horses may have been carried too far for time was when I was asked by cabla to advise whether Sim ¬ mer by St Simon Dutch Oven was worth buying for Australia I had seen Simmer at Kingsciere when he was in training and know that he was too bad tobe ever started in a race Moreover ho was no beauty so I advised against that purchase Nevertheless some one else sent him out and even he sired good winners including two of the Cham ¬ pion Stakes viz Dividend In 1905 and again in 1907 Bobadil son of Bill of Portland got the Champion Stakes winner Pendil of 1909 1909From From these and many other proofs at the An ¬ tipodes we may assume that roaring from an hereditary point of view in negligible and I ques ¬ tion very much whether it is not equally so in England It would be hard to find a more tre ¬ mendous roaring combination in any pedigree than in that of Ajax and Adam the famous brothers which combined Ormonde Prince Charlie Chatta ¬ nooga a terrible roarer and Aranearia the roaring last daughter of the roaring Pocahontas But Ajax and Adam were both of them sound as a bell
