Desert Gold — Record of a Great

ESERT GOLD, one of the most brilliant and spectacular mares ever to grace the Australasian Turf, died in New Zealand last week. She was a venerable old lady at the time of her death, as she was foaled in 1912, so was rising 30 years when she died. It is not often mares live as long as Desert Gold did, but Circle, the last daughter of Carbine at the stud in Australia, who bred the Newmarket winner Blague, was about