Maltster went to stud in 1903 for a fee of only fifteen guineas. He had arrived late in the season and got few mares, most of which were owned by the Thompson family. Like many champion stallions, Maltster was an immediate success through a daughter of the Lochiel mare, Loch Laya. The result was a filly called Maltine who was a star 2yo. We will let the Northern Miner of Charters Towers take up the story of her.
Northern Miner (Charters Towers, Qld.: 1874 - 1954), Thursday 25 August 1910, page 5
MALTINE
Maltine Is the best mare seen out since Wakeful and Gladsome and is certainly the best of the Maltster mares up to the present. A handsome chestnut, Maltine Is a low set, symmetrical mare, who has demonstrated her ability to gallop over and over again. She has been a fie performer in handicaps but has never yet taken an open wfa event. As a two-year she was third In the Breeders' Plate, 6 furlongs, won the Gimcrack Stakes, won the Maribyrnong Plate 6 furlongs and the Second Nursery Handicap, being unplaced twice. She opened her 3-year-old record by running third in the Oaks Stakes to Lady Rylstone and Lady Diffidence, and secured another third In the Rous Handicap, and was unplaced seven times, one of the unplaced races being the Sydney Cup with 7st
