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Ireland Our Babu Bred In County Meath By TIM VIGORS Dublin Correspondent, Daily Racing Form DUBLIN, Ireland— Although none of the three Irish-trained runners in the English Two Thousand Guineas finished in the first three the honor of the Ould Sod was redeemed to some extent by the fact that the winner, Our Babu, was bred and raised here. As anticipated, the stiff Newmarket mile proved too much for speedy 3allymartial , who was up with the leaders for six furlongs, but found the final rise to the winning post too much for him. As this shapely co is by Court Martial out of the Bally ogan mare, his failure to get the trip was not surprising. Stable companion, Flying Story, ran a much more convincing race than he had at The Curragh a week previously and finished close to the placed horses. Joe McGraths other runner, Windsor Sun, a half brother to the Derby winner Arctic Prince, who is nominated for the American Derby, was carried off his feet in the early stages, but finished in the manner of a horse who will run well in top class company over a longer distance. Our Babu, a beautifully proportioned individual, whose appearance suggested that he was ready to run for his life, was bred in County Meath by Sir Oliver Lambert. He is by My Babu, who sired the winners of both two-year-old races at Newmarket the previous day, out of Glen Line, a 13-year-old Blue Peter mare, whose best previous runner was King of the Tudors who won the mile and a quarter Eclipse Stakes from the Two Thousand Guineas winner Darius last year. King of the Tudors is a son of Tudor Minstrel, and it is therefore not surprising that he failed to get the mile and u half at Laurel last November. Although Our Babu was bred and raised in County Meath, it cannot be claimed that his pedigree is entirely Irish. True, his dam comes from an old Irish family which traces to Sun-bridge, the dam of Irish classic winners Soldumeno, Sol Speranza, and Resplendent. The last named won the Irish One Thousand Guineas and Irish Oaks, and bred the English Derby winner, Windsor Lad. Glen Lines sire, Blue Peter, is essentially an English horse, and Our Babus own father, My Babu, is a son of the great French stallion, Djebel. Our Babus pedigree is another fine example of the success which can be achieved by mating the best bloodlines regardless of nationality. Readers of this column cannot accuse this correspondent of over-boosting the value of Irish bloodline by themselves. The point we have made from time to time is that Irelands greatest contribution to the bloodstock world is her soil and climate. We sincerely believe, and the victory of Our Babu at Newmarket last week is yet another example of the soundness of our creed, that there is no better place in the world to breed and rear a race horse than the green pastures of Ireland. If these race horses are to do justice to the conditions under which i hey have been reared, it is essential that their pedigrees should contain the best bloodlines Irish breeders obtain. The defeat of the Irish-trained contestants in the Two Thousand Guineas was compensated by an outstanding performance by another Irish-trained colt in the following race, the Chippenham Stakes. Zarathustra, a slashing four-year-old son of Persian Gulf, who carried off the Irish Derby and St. Leger last year, had no difficulty disposing of the useful English horses, Repidoptic, Herculaneum, Rawson in the style of a high class colt. Zarathustra s next race will be the mile and a half Coronation Cup, which is run the day after the English Derby. Zarathustra, who but for a mishap last fall, would have represented Ireland at Laurel, will meet top class opposition at Epsom, and it will be a great boost for Irish form should he again be victorious. Blarney: Zarathustras three-year-old brother, Paddy Shah, won the principal race of the day in impressive style at Phoenix Park last Saturday Lord Don-oughmore, who is a close relation of the Phipps family, had the pleasure of seeing bis two-year-old filly Cold Morning win the first two-year-old race of the day at Phoenix Park. . .This was the first time Lord Donoughmores colors had been carried in Ireland . . . Cold Morning is an Continued on Page Forty -Three Report From Ireland By TIM A. VIGORS Continued from Page Eight aptly -named filly, being by Arctic Star out of the Sol Oriens mare Early Sunrise. ..When Maryland breeder, Larry S. MacPhail, attended the Dublin yearling sales last year he purchased an all-quality daughter of My Babu for 8,000. On opening day of the last Newmarket meeting this filly, now trained by H. Thompson Jones, carried Mrs. Mac-Phails colors to an impressive victory in the first spring stakes. This filly will win again. Coming from the same family as Arctic Prince and Solar Slipper, she should prove a valuable addition to the Glenangus Farms broodmare band. E. Barry Ryan should be pleased with the results of the English Two Thousand and One Thousand Guineas. . .At the Newmarket October sales last year he purchased a yearling filly by My Babu out of Woodfire, whom he now has in training in America. Apart from the fact that My Babu was the sire of the English Two Thousand Guineas winner, Ryans filly is closely related on her dams side to Lord Roseberys Aberlady, who ran a magnificent race to finish second in the English One Thousand Guineas. Barry and Martha Ryan will not shed any tears on the score that Our Babu is out of a Blue Peter mare, for one of the prides of Normandy Farm, is the five-year-old Skye, a daughter of Blue Peter that they purchased from Lord Rose-bery at the end of her illustrious racing career . . . Defeat of 1954 English Two Thousand Guineas winner Darius at level weights by Narrator at Newmarket last week, confirms the class of Joe Tomlinsons Marshal Ney, who gave a seven pounds and two lengths beating to Narrator at one mile at Newmarket.
