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| j HAPPY WARRIORS CAREER Fatal Mishap to Stallion Hard for Irish Bloodstock Industry. « Sired Nine Two-Year-OId Winners In 19*2 and Same Number In 19S3 — Seventeen 1924 Juveniles. 4 T.Y K. E. COUSSELL. LONDON, Eng., March Is!.— The sudden death of Happy Warrior was a MOW for Irish I breeders. Good and proved stallions in Iro-1 land nowadays are not over plentiful, "hey include The Tetraroh. which, though r-a.-- 1 tically sterile, is still largely used by Bnglfoh breeders. East year he sired ten foals -all fTllie.s from thirty-eight mares. As Um fie, of The Tetrarch is ,500 it means these leu, fillies were each worth 0,000, «RRiev«r they were as individuals. Other leading stallions now in Ireland are Bachelors Double, Prince Galahad. Flying Orb, Lomond, Junior, Tetratema -tad perhaps Hainault. Honey Bee and Argos. Not an extensive list when it is rerallei they are strongly patronized by English bcee tern. True. Santoi and Tredennis are still alive. The former is twenty-seven years old and , the latter a year younger. San;oi is ihe better preserved, showing his great aire in a lesser degree than Tredennis. Sai.toi still reveals his old fire, deviltry and Mpt/a action. He still has two attendants to avoij mishaps. AT B AI.I.YKISTKEX STUD. He is located at the Ballykisteen Stud Farm, about one-half mile from Limerick Junction station, which is 107 miles southwest of Dublin. Happy Warrior was also an inmate of F.allykisteen, where a month ago in company with A. C. Hostwick I saw him kf.king in excellent condition. Santoi. Flying Orb and Sonning are all at Hallykisteen. It appears that on Friday, March 14. Happy Warrior overbalanced and, falling heavily, broke his back. This is a grievous loss. ecning at the common ement of the stud s. a.ui. for his "book" had been full for many months. A good looking, symmetrical, brown horse. Happy Warrior stood a shade under sixteen hands high, with big bone and low to the ground. There was no white about him. He showed beautiful quality. He was somewhat lop-eared, a characteristic he Inherited from Sundridge. When in training he was a trifle Black about the loins, but at the stud ho appeared to have overcome that deficiency. In IMS I had the horse sold to go to Australia. The price was ,000. It was in the war time when values were depreciated. My friend declined to complete the business because Happ Warrior pmWmVtmtA lupe.ii.s As a two-year old Happy Warrior ran lour times. He finished second in his first race, beaten a short head in the llalnaker Stakes at M.oodwood. He t li--11 won the Glasgow Nursery at Doncaster. Hopeful Stakes. Newmarket, and tin- CheaterheM Nursery, Derby. carrying top weight in a field of nineteen. He made his first appearance as a three-year old in the St. .lames Palace Stakes of jii.." i0 at Ascot, it was known Happy Warrior had been successful in a remarkahle trial with Princess Dorrie and Plack Jester. As a ifsult he started a 1 to 2 favorite. Indeed the bookmakers declined to lay him. Handicapped by a slow lH ginning he was in trouble throughout and suffered defeat by a aock. It was so costly an experience that after the race J. P.. Joel, who bred and owned Happy Warrior, declared he would never again bet 011 any of his horses. The son of Sundridge ran once more that season ere in the December Sales the late Kennedy Jones paid 57.000 for him. At four years old Happy Warrior started in ten races. The best he could do was to finish second, beaten a short head in a field of sixteen, at Newmarket. The fact was Happy Warrior was never again the colt he v.as before the great Ascot trial. WENT TO STUD IN 1916. He was put to the stud in 1910 at a fee of 5. Located in Sussex, he did not attract the attention of Knglish breeders, so Kennedy Jones took him to Ireland in 1919 and stood him at Rallykisteen, his fee 1 eing raised to 0. As a result of his first Irish season, when mated with indifferently bred mares. Happy Warrior sired nine two-year-old winners in 1922. In 1920 therwete eight-eon Happy Warrior foals as compared with three in 1919. As a matter of fact fourteen of the eighteen foals of 1920 won races at two and three ytars old. In 192:1 Happy Warrior again had nine twu-year-olils to win for him. His total of foals was seventeen. In 1924 he can have seventeen juveniles to race for him. and there are nineteen yoarlirgs as a result of the 1922 stud season. Truth to tell. Happy Warrior left about 40 per cent of his mares batten, but as many came from obscure farms in Ireland it may not be altogether the fault of the horse. It is well known that Sundridge in his tarly days was such an indifferent foal getter that Mr. Joel practieally made him a private stallion for some seasons. To the end of 192.". the offspring of Happy Warrior had won fifty-two and a half r.tces and stakes valued at $.".s.005. In 1923 thd fiRiircs Wte twenty-seven races. Very few of his sons aind daughters were exported, so their winnings did not much increase these t t.ils. Happy Warrior was a Wf=ll-bred horse, foaled in 1911, and sired by Sundridge from Sweet Lassie dam of Sunfire, which won ."i.000. by Orme, from Our Lassie, winner of the Oaks and half-sister to Your Majesty, whieh won the St. I.eger, Eclipse. Stak* s and 02,500 in stakes. He was unable to compete in the Derby. After two stud seasons Mr. Joel sold Your Majesty to go to Argentina. The price paid was 22,500. Many Piitish arootleH without regret saw him leave his native land, for they regarded him as ".soft." Princess Dorrie disposed of that idea when in 1914 she won the One Thousand Guineas and the Oaks. Your Majesty has sited many big winners in Argentina, where he was at the head of the !;st of winning stallions in 1921. The fee of Happy Warrior for 1924 was 95. He was named after the hero of A. S. M. Hutchinsons successful romance before "If Winter tonies" had made that author world fi.nous.
