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NEW LAURELS FOR S0LARI0 Sire of Mid-day Sun and Exhibitionist, Winners of Epsom Derby and Oaks. Solario, the horse which gained world-wide distinction a few years ago, when a syndicate of British sportsmen headed by Lord Glanely purchased the young stallion for the record price of 35,000 at public auction at the dispersal sale of the late Sir John Rutherfords stable and breeding stud, is again a headliner in the sporting news of the day. This time Solaris makes turf history as being the tenth stallion to sire the winners of both the Derby and Oaks Stakes in the same year. Solario has gained this singular distinction as daddy of the Derby hero Mid-day Sun and of the Oaks heroine Exhibitionist, the last named previously the winner of the other filly classic, the One Thousand Guineas. In the long history of the Derby and Oaks Stakes covering a period of one hundred and fifty-eight years, nine . other renewals of this classic double were won the same year by horses claiming the same sire. Four of these nine renewals were won by fillies. Eleanor, daughter of Whiskey, 1801; Blink Bonny, daughter of Melbourne, 1857; Signor-inetta, daughter of Chaleureux, 1908, and Fifinella, daughter of Polymelus, heroine of the war-time substitute Derby and Oaks, 1916. SIRES OF OTHER WINNES. Other Derby and Oaks winners the same year, the same sire were the 1815 victors, Whisker and Minuet, begotten by Waxy; the 1824 winners, Cedric and Cobweb, sired by Phantom; the 1852 winners, Daniel ORourke and Songstress, claiming Irish Birdcatcher as their sire; the 1887 victors, Merry Hampton and Reve dOr, begotten by Hampton, and the 1900 Epsom classics winners, Diamond Jubilee, and La. Roche, sired by mighty St. Simon. Solario, a great race horse, won the St. Leger Stakes, Ascot Gold Cup, Coronation Gup, Prince of Wales Stakes, earning 04,675 in first money. Solario was bred by the late Lord Dun-raven at his Fort Union Stud, County Limerick, Ireland, and when a yearling was sold for 7,000 to Sir John Rutherford at the 1923 Doncaster Sales. Solario claims the 1918 war-time triple crown hero, Gainsborough, son of the St. Leger hero, Bayardo, as his sire. He is out of Sun Worship, a daughter of the great sprinter Sundridge, sire of the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby victor, Sunstar. REFUSED 350,000 FOR HORSE. During Solarios racing career Sir John Rutherford refused a bid of 50,000 for his horse tendered by Jack Barnato Joel, who when making the offer, was unaware that Sir John Rutherford had stated that no bid would induce him to part with the son of Gainsborough. The Aga Kahn, having heard of Sir Johns decision, asked him as a matter of mere interest, if 00,000 would not tempt him to sell. "No," replied Sir John, "not for all the money in the world." Sir John Rutherford died a few years later and his will, intimating that all his bloodstock be sold, caused Solario to come under the auctioneers hammer. His purchase was by a syndicate of English breeders determined not to let the Irish-bred horse leave the country. At the end of last year, the stock of Solario, whose stud fee is ,500, had won about 35,000 in first monies in Great Britain and Ireland. He was then second in the winning sires list to Fairway. This year to date, the offspring of Solario have won more than 61,000. His best winners are the Derby hero, Mid-day Sun, the One Thousand Guineas and Oaks heroine, Exhibitionist; Solar Bear, winner of the Queens Prize, and Silversol, winner of the Yorkshire Cup.
