Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954), Friday 29 April 1898, page 29


ARAB STALLIONS FOR THE NOR'

,WEST.

Mr. 8. P. Mackay, one of the firm of Mackay Bros., owners of Mundabullangana station in the Nor'-West, and breeders of

thoroughbred stock, is in Perth, en route home after a visit to the Eastern colonies. While in Victoria Mr. Mackay attended the Newmarket yearling sales and, as was reported by telegraph and previously re-ferred to in these columns, purchased a bay yearling colt, foaled l16th September,

1896; by Bill of Portland from The Fortune Teller, for 230 guineas.. This youngster Mr. Mackay has christened Gipsy Bill. He also bought a yearling bay filly, foaled in 1896, by Trenton-Courteous, by Chester from Superba (full sister to Richmond) for 50 guineas privately, after she had

been passed in at the sale for 45 guineas. Mr. Mackay did not confine his purchases to young thoroughbred racing stock, for he availed himself of an opportunity to secure

two young Arab stallions bred by Mr.

Justice Boucaut at Mount Barker, South Australia. These two horses were the progeny of the pure Arab sire Rayfik, and two pure Àrab mares Rose of Denmark and Darhma, obtained from the celebrated Crabbet stud in England. One of the pair secured by Mr. Mackay is a bright dappled bay by Rayfik-Rose of Denmark, and the other a right bay, by Rayfik-Darhma. One of the pair is a yearling, and the other a three-year-old,. Saladin being the name bestowed upon the latter. Mr. Boucaut's Arab stud is the place wherefrom Mr. E. P. Darlot recently secured a young Arab stallion to use for breeding, purposes

on his stations in the Nor-West. It is Mr. Mackay's ' intention to use his Arabs for stud purposes, crossing them with thrèe-quarter -bred mares, of which he has a number on Mundabullangana .and o 'other stations, mares by Two of Hearts, Sunny Days, and Cynic out of half-bred mares. It is expected that this crossing will produce excellent animals, suitable for

Indian remounts.

The Bill of Portland colt, Gipsy Bill, has been left in the hands o£ Tom Ketty at Morphettville, S.A., to be trained, and after his racing career he will be sent for stud duty to Mundabullangana. The Trenton Courteous filly has, so Mr. Mackay has been informed by telegram, safely arrived on hi 'station in company with the young Arab stallions. They were shipped to the Nor'-West on the s.s. Karrakatta. Both

the Bill of Portland colt and the Trenton filly are eligible for the V.R.C. Sires Pro-duce Stakes of 1899.