Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.: 1864 - 1946), Saturday 4 March 1939, page 12
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STUD AND RACING CAREER OF BOBADIL
Famous Sires-Bobadil
BOBADIL was bred at the St. Albans Stud in 1895 by Mr. W. R. Wilson.
Had Mr. Wilson lived a few years longer and Bobadil remained at St. Albans as a sire, probably he would have been one of the most successful sires Australia has known. He was a great sire, who was to a large extent wasted. He was always on the move, and at no period of his career did he manage to get into a really first class stud and settle down. Nevertheless, he managed to sire the winners of nearly £200,000 in stakes, and his progeny won more than 1,300 races.
Bobadil closed a brilliant racing career as a four-year-old, and was at St. Albans when Mr. W. R. Wilson died in May, 1900. Bobadil probably
