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. Australia Await Speedster Silence at Sydney By BOB THOMSON Australian Correspondent, Daily Racing Form MELBOURNE, Australia. The influx of New Zealand horses in Australia continues-and the latest booking for Sydney is the i :n: l. : i -; unman u spiiULei 01- lence, who will join Maurice McCartens team. Owned by Ihe Dunedin sportsman J. P. OBrien, Silence won the Challenge Stakes, seven furlongs, weight-for-age, at Ric-carton, Christchurch. Sired by imported Tim-anova, son of the Hyperion horse Casan- the Siegfried Son-in-Law mare All Quiet, dam of the New Zealand St. Leger winner, Western Front. OBrien recently refused 6,450 for the gelding who will visit Brisbane Queensland for the rich Doomben Ten Thousand and may remain in Australia. Dominion owner T. C. Lowry, whose father, the late T. H. Lowry, raced the grand mare Desert Gold, arrived in Sydney on the eve of Arabics first Australian triumph at Canterbury Park. Arabic, who is by the Hyperion horse Neptune, is likely to cut a wide swath in Aussie racing. The Maorilander gave a repeat performance in the Welter Handicap, one mile, at Randwick and turned on a blazing burst of speed to defeat Distant Star and Sobriquet. Arabics dam, Sudan, is by Bean Pere from Sahara, by Grand-court, from immortal Desert Gold, winner of 19 races in a row and 14 in one season. Desert Gold was by the imported Gallinule horse All Black, from the Aussie-bred mare Aurariuus. New Zealand critics are beating tomtoms for Kings Fair, one of the first of imported Fairs Fair progeny to grace the Dominion turf. This brilliant three-year-old had four straight wins in six starts. Kings Fair, a grand galloper whose sire, Fairs Fair, is bred on the same cross as Ray Bells Irish buy, The Pie King, has captivated New Zealand turf fans and is a near relation to Waterline, conqueror of Phar Lap at one mile at Flemington Vic. . His dam, Fair Play, is by Cricket Bat from Waterlines sister, Sailors Love. Kings Fair strode away from 14 rivals in the Gordonton Plate at Te Rapa in the style of a really great horse. Statistics prepared by the Blood Horse Breeders Association of Australia show imported Delville Wood Bois Roussel on top of the winning sires list, a position he held last season. Kia Ora Stud, at which Delville Wood stands, also has the distinction of owning the top sire of broodmares. Midstream, sire of Shannon II. and Bernbrook, has displaced Magpie of revered memory. Kia Ora holds an impregnable position as a result of 37 years of intensive and ruthless culling and the importation of sires and mares of royal breeding. The late Percy Miller pinned his faith to Magpie mares and his venture proved a great success. Magpie Dark Ronald sired the dams of Delta, Deep River and the mighty Hydrogen. Delville Wood has set a new Australian record for a sire. - Up to March 7 the progeny of the Bois Roussel horse had won 65,062 in stakes. Previous record of 61,-543 stood td the credit of Helios Hyperion. Other leading stallions are: Helios, High Peak Hyperion , St-Magnus Sanso-vino, Empyrean Hyperion, Dhoti Das-tur, Gaekwars Pride Fair Trial, and Midstream Blandford. Delville Wood must always command the respect of Aussie breeders. Sire of such grand horses as Hydrogen, Lord Forrest, Electro and Bird-wood, he is a direct descent in female line of Plucky Liege. Gold Schemes breakdown during the Sydney Cup was a heartbreak for his Dominion owner, Ned Fitzgerald, but his Juck should continue as an owner-breeder in the rich Ellerslie G. N. Steeplechase with his fine chaser, Personality, a gelded son of the Blandford horse, Bulandshar, of the same family as Gold Scheme, Golden Souvenir and Kindergarten, a trio that won over 12,500 for Fitzgerald. Kindergarten, a double crypt orchid, was regarded as a better horse than the "Red Terror" -Phar Lap. Gold Scheme, one of New Zealands top ranking stayers will never race again.. South Australias "wonder boy," Billy Pyers, the greatest bug rider the Adelaide turf fans have ever seen and who topped the S. A. jockeys list at 17, recently celebrated his twenty-first birthday and is a Continued on Page Forty-Seven Australian Report By BOB THOMSON - - Continued from Page Six cinch for his fourth premiership. Jack Thompson, four time top Sydney jockey, was 18 and in- the third year of his apprenticeship with Frank Dalton when he topped his home city list in 1940-41 season. Thompson rode for P. J. Prender-gasts Rossmore Lodge stable in Ireland several years ago and is still among Australias leading jockeys. Sons of the English Derby winner Blue Peter have been bought by Dominion and Aussie breeders but his stock in England are not too popular. Blue Train was on the threshold of a successful stud career when he died in Ireland. Not merely a good pedigree, but a genuinely fashionable pedigree, plus good looks, is required by every New Zealand buyer. Royal Applause, heroine of the Great North Foal Stakes at Auckland, currently ranked New Zealands filly of the year and winner of seven races from 12 starts, is a two-year-old brown filly by Hello Peter Blue Peter from the Inflation mare Light Opera, by Nigger Minstrel. Sweet Musics grandam Marty Martagon was imported in 1910 by J. D. Ormond. Martys sister, Market Girl, ran. third to Fifinella and Salamandra in the English Oaks. Market Girl became the dam of Coster Boy and Link Boy, a fairly successful sire in England. Romney Rise, South Australias latest juvenile find has won six of his last eight starts and took major honors In the Port Adelaide clubs Sires Produce Stakes. After being unplaced in his first four essays, Romney Rice won a maiden race at Gawler last October. Romney Rise is by Blue Moon Blue Peter, from Indrani Dhoti, from Nirriti, by the imported Spearmint horse Cyklon. Owned , by an Adelaide bookmaker, he was bred by W. S. Kidman at Fulham Park, Ful-ham, a suburb of Adelaide, and cost only 64 as a yearling. - -
