he horse though that we wanted to look at in this piece was one called Kilboy who we have mentioned briefly in the past when talking of Robinson Crusoe and the career of Hurtle Fisher. While Kilboy sees his third dam as a Robinson Crusoe mare called Campania, she was in turn a granddaughter of the Yattendon mare, Silver Bell. Kilboy was an outstanding horse but was retired young with leg injuries and was a moderate stallion at best. Accordingly, he has been somewhat neglected in racing history which makes it even more important that we spend some time looking at his career. A mare called Cyre by Cyrenian, a son of St Simon, and who traced to Silver Bell was one of the mares at Ellerslie Stud when it was purchased by breeder, Mr JB Reid in 1912. Reid had purchased the stallion, Kilbroney who himself was an early if somewhat highly strung type. He won the National Produce Stakes at The Curragh as a 2yo and ran second to Aviator in the Irish Derby as a 3yo. Aviator was later to go to stud at Russley Stud near Scone without success. Kilbroney trained on as an older horse, winning the Great Metropolitan Handicap at Epsom and the Goodwood Cup, before being beaten a neck by the top galloper, Lemberg, in the Doncaster Cup. The success of
