140 RACEHORSES IN AUSTRALIA 



At Sledmere is Mr. Denison's old favourite Poseidon, a winner of over 

 £19,000, and although more or less of a stud failure, is being well 

 cared for in his declining years by his grateful owner. D. S. and H. 

 Hall are young breeders in the Scone district, who generally are repre- 

 sented at the Sydney sales by a good-class yearling or two, and, leaving 

 their place at Cressfield, we approach one of the largest and most important 

 studs on the Upper Hunter in Kiora, the property of Mr. Percy Miller. No 

 breeder of recent years has gone more whole-heartedly into the breeding 

 business — for business it is nowadays — than the owner of Magpie, Sarchedon 

 and Demosthenes, all very high-class English importations. The first-named 

 horse is by Dark Ronald, and in his last race in England was beaten by a neck 

 by his stable companion Gay Crusader in the English Derby. Demosthenes, 

 by Desmond, and a close relation to Sunstar, was brought from New Zealand, 

 where he had been a great stud success, at a very high figure; while Sarchedon, 

 the most recent addition to the stud, and incidentally one of the highest priced 

 horses who have come this way, is a grey son of The Tetrarch, and was the 

 most brilliants two-year-old of his year in England. There are certainly more 

 high-priced mares at Kiora than in any other New South Wales stud, and it 

 keeps growing in numbers from year to year. The property is part of the 

 very famous Segenhoe Estate, and the Hunter divides it from the original 

 Segenhoe Homestead block where Mr. William Brown bred many good ones. 

 Across the range from Segenhoe, in a very rich bend of the Hunter, is 

 Kingsfield, owned by Messrs. J. E. and C. H. Brien, and three stallions live 

 in luxurious ease here. Malt King, one of the most brilliant horses we have 

 had of recent years, and the fastest horse Maltster sired, has been at Kingsfield 

 since the inception of the stud, and he is kept company by Beragoon, an 

 Australian-bred son of Multiform, and the recently imported St. Frusquin horse 

 Rossendale. Beragoon was one of the finest two-year-olds produced here, and 

 was a racehorse of the highest class, winning both the A.J.G. and V.R.C. 

 Derbies, and is siring some useful winners. 



Rossendale comes from England with sire honours thick upon him, and 

 with the splendid chances Kingsfield will afford him he should do really well, 

 for he is a splendid type of horse whose racing merit was of the highest order. 

 The Kingsfield brood mares are second to none, the foundation stock being 

 young English mares bought at a very high cost from the well-known English 

 breeder J. B. Joel, and the additions made to the mares since have been 

 wisely chosen with a very high regard for quality and a disregard for cost. 

 Kingsfield is an ideal situation for a Thoroughbred Stud, the Hunter running 

 right through the property, which consists of rich flats extending by gradual 

 slopes up to limestone hills, which form an almost natural boundary fence to 

 the property, 



Retracing our steps again to Scone, we find above Sledmere, on the 

 Kingdon Ponds, the brilliant Panacre, by imported Linacre, at the head of 

 the Cliffdale Stud, formed last year by Mr. J. Campbell Wood, whose colours 

 Panacre carried with such success. On this very rich and sound piece of 

 country a select stud is being put together, and the young Panacres will 

 shortly be trying to emulate the deeds of their speedy sire. On north from 

 Cliffdale Sir Samuel Hordern's Petwyn Vale lies, a small, attractive holding 

 whose name has yet to be made. Let us hope the well-bred Englishman 

 Emblematic, a son of Tracery, and a fine stamp of stallion, will rise to fame 

 and breed some good winners for his sporting owner, whose success as a 

 breeder has been small in comparison with his efforts. He has the horse, the 

 mares and the countrj' — that great essential — and the remaining one, luck, let 

 tis hope, may be lurking behind one of the corner posts. Still further north, 



