Last month we told the story of Peter Pan who started his racing at the end of the career of Phar Lap, drawing immediate comparisons to that legendary galloper. Another interesting connection comes with the great NZ galloper, Gloaming who died in May 1932, only a month after the death of Phar Lap. Gloaming by then was seventeen years old following a leisurely retirement at his owner, GD Greenwood’s property near Teviotdale in North Canterbury, NZ. He was buried on the property on what came to be known as “Gloaming’s Hill.” In another twist, both GD Greenwood and the trainer of Gloaming in Dick Mason were both to die the same year as their treasured champion.
For our story this month Gloaming is of particular interest because his second dam is a half-sister to Bill Of Portland. The mare, No Trumps was by Orvieto, a son of Bend Or, out of Electric Light. Gloaming was by top stallion, The Welkin out of the imported Light by Eager. Light was bred in the
