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GRAND PARADE DESTROYED . 4 1919 Epsom Derby Winner Breaks Leg in His Stall. Derby Victory Confounded His Stable Con-nections--Had Extremely Successful -Stud Career Sired Winners. From England comes news of the death of Lord Glanelys Derby winner "Grand Parade.. The Irish-bred son of. the Derby hero Orby was discovered in his box at the Exning Stud, Newmarket with broken leg and he was destroyed. During his brief racing career, Grand Parade won seven of his eight races, including the sensational 1919 Derby, earning 4,910. In his first season the black son of Orby won f iVe of his six juvenile engagements, including the Fitzwilliam and Solty-koff Stakes at Newmarket, wlJile in Ireland he accounted for the Curragh Biennial Stakes, the Anglesey and National Produce Stakes, his one turf defeat being suffered in the Moulton Stakes at Newmarket, in which he finished third to Glanmerin also a son of Orby, and Knight of the Air. In his second season Grand Parade made his debut in the Derby, as second string .to his stablemate Dominion, also owned by Lord Glanely. Starting at 33 to 1, he led home Buchan, Paper Money and eleven others, including the Two Thousand Guineas winner The Panther, and Dominion, which horse subsequently finished second toKeysoe in the St Leger. Grand Parades Derby victory confounded his stable and those closely associated with him, for in his home gallops he was considered the inferior of Dominion, which horse had raced third to The Panther and Buchan in the Guineas. Arthur Smith, who rode as first jockey to Lord Glenely that season, elected to ride Dominion in preference to Grand Parade, on which Fred Tem-pleman had the mount. Grand Parades only other race was in the one mile St. James Palace Stakes at Ascot. He was opposed only by his relative, Glanmerin, and he beat this solitary opponent cleverly by a length. This concluded Grand Parades turf career. He was retired to the stud at a fee of ,100, which was his price until-the time of his death. This was in 1919, and his first cropof two-year-olds carried silks in 1923. Six of them, including Diophon, won twelve races and prizes worth 8,895. In the following year Diophon scored in the Two Thousand Guineas and, with eight other offsprings of Grand Parade, stakes and purses to the value of 9,070 were placed to the credit of the son of Orby. In 1925 Grand Parades star as a sire was still in the ascendant, his chief winner being Review Order. His progeny accounted for nineteen races and 7,755 in prizes. GRAND PARADES PEDIGREE. Grand Parades stock has proved highly successful on the turf, and at the close of last year he had sired the winners of 252 races and 38715 in prizes. Bred at the Glencarin Stud, County Dublin, by the late Richard Croker, Grand Parade, foaled in 1916, was a black son of the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby winner Orby, from Grand. Geraldine a mare that never won a race, but also bred the winners Ybro, Geraldina, Bookie, etc., by Desmond, from Grand Marnier a non-winner, by Friars Balsam, from an unnamed daughter of Galopin, from Mother Superior an unsuccessful mare on the race track, both by Sterling, from Chanoiesse, a daughter of Newminister, that won over 0,000 in prizes and was a sister to Hermit, which horse won the Derby for Viscount Chaplin in 1867. Grand Geraldine, dam of Grand Parade, was bred in Ireland by the veterinarian M. J. Cleary, who sold the daughter of Desmond as a yearling to his close friend, trainer Senator J. J. Parkinson, who at that time was training the late Richard Crokers horses. Grand Geraldine, " a grand type of mare, proving no use on he track, was sold at the close of her three-year-old days by trainer Parkinson to Richard Croker for ,000. Bred to Orby in her first season, she produced Ybro, a winner of one race. In her second season Grand Geraldine visited the court of Dinneford and produced the smart filly Geraldina. Next, she was mated with Book to produce Bookie, a winner. Then, sent back to Orby, came Grand Parade, which was sold as. a foal for ,350 to C. F Creed, acting for Lord Glanely, at one of the late Richard Crokers weeding-out sales in the fall of 1916.
