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BOBADIL AT STUD

Bobadil at Stud

Sport (Adelaide, SA: 1911 - 1948), Friday 22 January 1926, page 15

The Stud Record of Bobadil

When great Australian sires are being discussed it is seldom that the name of Bobadil is mentioned. Yattendon, Chester, Grand Flaneur Trenton, Goldsbrough, Fisherman, Bill of Portland, Carbine, Maltster. Wallace, Lochiel, The Welkin, Comedy King, and many others are remembered, but Bobadil is forgotten. Yet he was a really great sire. He is overlooked, because he did not sire horses that appeal to the imagination as Gloaming, Abercorn, Grand Flaneur and a few other notables did at the zenith of their careers. He sired a few wonderful stayers, but the

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