142 RACEHORSES IN AUSTRALIA 



of Mudgee. Some ten miles before you reach this veritable lucerne oasis 

 Havilab appears in its picturesque frame of hills, and here some good 

 performers have been and are being bred. The property is now owned by 

 Hunter White, a member of one of the best-known pastoral families in 

 Australia, and a nephew of the late James White, a counter-type of the famous 

 Admiral Rous. Three, a very highly bred son of The Welkin, is the hope of 

 the Havilah Stud at the present time, and he is a splendid individual who looks 

 like getting good stock. Mr. Hunter White not only breeds on a large scale, 

 but is a staunch supporter of the N.S.W. Turf, and no colours are more popular 

 than the red jacket and white Maltese cross of their non-betting owner. 



On the other side of Mudgee Mr. D. U. Seaton has Eurunderee, where 

 his brilliant racehorse Wolaroi is embarking on his stud career. Wolaroi, by 

 Kenilworth, was bred and raced by his owner, and few more brilliant horses 

 have carried silk of recent years. Another good performer, in the Bright Steel 

 horse Westcourt, a Melbourne Cup hero, is at Eurunderee, and the stud has a 

 nice collection of English and colonial bred mares. 



Farther out from Eurunderee is the old-established stud Biraganbil, owned 

 for years by the Rouse family, and the present owners, Messrs. L. G. and H. C. 

 Rouse are keeping up the family's long connection with the Thoroughbred. 

 A beautifully bred son of Chaucer, in imported Allegory, holds sway at 

 Biraganbil, and, if judicious mating will mean success, the horse has got into 

 the right stud. It is almost needless to say that L. G. Rouse is identical with 

 the keeper of the Australian Stud Book, and there is no sounder judge of 

 pedigree in the Southern Hemisphere. He has done splendid work in his 

 official capacity, not only as regards the Stud Book, but also as a Racing 

 Steward, etc., and our Thoroughbred breeders are under a debt of gratitude 

 to him, and Mr. Archie Yuille, of Melbourne, for their efforts in recording 

 reliable breeding records whose value cannot be over-estimated. 



Dunlop, near Merriwa, is a stud of fairly recent origin, Mr. T. A. Stirton 

 having established his splendid horse Cetigne, by Grafton (imp.), there, as 

 well as the flying Biplane, by Comedy King (imp.), a dual Derby winner and 

 one of the fastest horses of his day. 



Another Western Stud, situated near Wellington, on the banks of 

 the Macquarie, some 80 miles from Mudgee, is that of Mr. Harry 

 Taylor, a successful breeder. A recent purchase is the New Zealand-bred 

 Humbug, a great, strapping son of Absurd, and a fine performer in the land 

 of the Moa. He also owns a fine son of The Welkin in Trillion, and some 

 very high-class mares. Mr. E. J. Watt, whose dark-blue jacket is familiar to 

 most racegoers in most parts of Australia, has the Boomey Stud near Molong, 

 an important station on the branch line from Orange to the Lachlan and not 

 far from Wellington. A horse of his own breeding in Pershore, a son of All 

 Black (imp.), is at Boomey, and he will not want for opportunity among the 

 mares he is being mated with. 



Near Cowra, a flourishing Western town, is Alfalfa, owned by the Payten 

 Bros., sons of the successful trainer, Tom Payten, who saddled so 

 many good winners for the Hon. James White. The colonial-bred Popinjay, 

 a brilliant son of Maltster, has done yeoman service for his youthful owners 

 since being given to them by the present Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Adrian 

 Knox, whose colours he carried with distinction. 



Here, too, in the rich Lachlan country, Mr. I. J. Sloan breeds a number 

 of good horses, and the latest addition to his stud in the English horse Cyllene 



