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SWIFT IRISH ELEGANCE AND HIS DAM Great Horse Not in the Stud Book Because of a Stain in the Maternal Pedigree The finest performance I have witnessed in any handicap since Minting won the Jubilee was that of Irish Elegance which by the way has had little to do with Ireland despite his name although many people seem to think otherwise In the Royal Hunt Cup on Wednesday Bred by Mr A Frogley and foaled on March 7 1915 this magnificent look ¬ ing chestnut by Sir Archibald now in Italy dam Sweet Clorane by Clorane is through the latter good horse debarred from entry in the Stud Book like two other excellent representatives of the May boy family Prospector and Shogun Last year after carrying his breeders colors at the Craven meeting when he was actually unplaced to such a colt as Beaufort the latter only receiving four pounds from him Irish Elegance was disposed of j privately to Mr Thorburn for I believe 10000 The first time the colt ran for his new owner he i received thirtyeight pounds from Diadem and fin ¬ i ished two lengths and a half behind her but then easily won a threeyearold handicap of seven i eighths at Newmarket by four lengths from Jutland to which he was giving six pounds After this Mr Thorburn sold Irish Elegance for I have always understood 50000 to wealthy Mr James White who now owns without much doubt over any course up to an easy mile or slightly less the best horse in the world worldESTABLISHES ESTABLISHES A WEIGHT RECORD RECORDBy By securing the Royal Hunt Cuj under 137 pounds Irish Elegance easily beat the previous best record for the race this being that of the sixyear old Collingwood which carrying 133 pounds beat twenty others i849 Next to these comesvthe then a fiveyearold in 1881 and which old stagers will remember stopped to kick during the race at the junction of the courses in spite of which that greatest of jockeys Fred Archer managed to get him going again in time to secure the spoils Two other notable efforts in this race were those of Victor Wild in 1895 and 1897 as in the firstnamed year he was only beaten a head under 133 pounds by Clorane in receipt of 9 pounds and failed by threequarters of a length when carrying 138 pounds to Knight of the Thistle the latters weight being 103 pounds two years later It is rather inter ¬ esting to note that Irish Elegance when so nar ¬ rowly beaten in the Cambridgeshire last year was only just a head of Arian conceding him 38 pounds and on Wednesday at 20 pounds he beat him by a ready length and a half So after all neither of these colts has changed much as regards individual form although both have greatly improved with HALFBRED MARE SWEET CLORANE CLORANEI I have on previous occasions referred to the pro ¬ duce of the halfbred mare Sweet Clorane and after the great performance of her son this week it may be interesting to again revert to the sub ¬ ject Sweet Clorane was bred in 1900 by J H Lawrence who sold her to A Frogley in September 1909 for only sixteen guineas The hitter gentle ¬ man then secured a wonderful bargain for all her produce to run since he acquired her have been winners After proving barren to Chaucer she in 1911 dropped Arthur B which Mr Frogley sold privately to Ernest Dresden For him the son of Athl won three races worth 6J830 as a twoyear old and after Mr Dresdens death the colt was sold for 1550 guineas to go to India where he won the King Emperors Cup and ran second to Bachelors Wedding for the Viceroys Cup Sweet Cloranes next foal was a filly by Silver Streak which was sold as a yearling to A Sadler Jr for eighty guineas and having run twice unplaced as Claire de Lune in this country ishe was sold to go to South Africa where she proved a winner The next two foals bred from her by Mr Frogley were C P which has already scored twice this season and Irish Elegance Mr de Pledge the owner of By Jingo has jnow a threeyearold chest ¬ nut sister to Irish Elegance which is called Irish Beauty and hasyet to run while it is worth noting that R Thorburn is sending up Peace Declared a yearling bay or brown halfbrother by Stornoway to Mr Whites crack oh the Thursday morning of the First July sales Audax in Horse and Hound
