January 2022

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Editor’s Letter
A New Year beckons and who knows what it will bring. January is Magic Millions time, and unless COVID throws up another curve, this year’s event should be outstanding as buyers have the opportunity of heading to the Gold Coast. Recently I had the opp
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Wallace The Champion Racehorse
Wallace is rightly renowned as one of the greatest sires that Australia has ever seen. But this chestnut son of Carbine, and in fact the very first foal ever produced by that stallion, was a top quality racehorse. Trained by Hugh Munro, the father of
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Mr. C. L. Macdonald. Tragic Death.
Much regret was expressed at Caulfield races on Saturday when it was learned that Mr Colin Leslie Macdonald was dying. Early that morning he had been found lying unconscious in a room in his flat at Cliveden Mansions, East Melbourne. Near him was a r
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My First Cup
George Meddick, the jockey who rode Kingsburgh to victory, said that he weighed 5 st 1 lb (32kg). It is not heavy weight but looking at him one was forced to the conclusion that he is surely the smallest boy who ever raced home in front of the field
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Midget McLachlan’s Life Story - No. 8
Billy McLachlan will ever remember his association with the great New Zealand mare Desert Gold, bred, owned and raced by Mr TH Lowry, as fine a sportsman as ever lived. In all, McLachlan rode Desert Gold in six of her races here. He won the St George
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Desert Gold — Record of a Great
DESERT GOLD, one of the most brilliant and spectacular mares ever to grace the Australasian Turf, died in New Zealand last week. She was a venerable old lady at the time of her death, as she was foaled in 1912, so was rising 30 years when she died. I
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Wallace The Champion Sire
Wallace was to go on to become one of the most important sires of his day, although rather oddly he won the Australian Sires’ Title only once, in the 1915-16 season. This success came largely on the back of the performances of Patrobas, a stallion th
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John Mcdonald
While Colin Leslie Macdonald was a legend in racing, it was another McDonald with a different spelling that enters the story of Wallace at this point. It is also a story of the foundations of NSW as we can trace it back to a time when Major Thomas Mi
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Aurous
The success of Aurous did not stop at Desert Gold. Another daughter of the mare in Aureity by Grafton produced another quality galloper in Tangalooma. By Linacre, that stallion won six stakes races in Victoria in the Herbert Power, Williamstown Cup,
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Lady Wallace An Outstanding Mare
Lady Mostyn was sent to the stallion Wallace in the 1901 season. The subsequent foal was a filly that was retained by McDonald and named Lady Wallace who was a remarkable racehorse. She had her first race in November of her 2yo season, finishing four
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Mountain King Gone In The Wind
At the same St Albans sale that Les Macdonald had purchases Kinglike and Wakeful, John McDonald purchased a mare called Bonnie Rosette with her second Wallace foal at foot and having been served by the same stallion again. John McDonald was forced to
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Trafalgar Another Great Son
Trafalgar was out of the Splendor mare, Grand Canary. The imported British horse, Splendor by Speculum had proven a very good sire. Splendor was bred in England by Mr Crowther Harrison, and as a yearling was sold to Mr GG Stead of NZ, who was in Engl
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Eurythmic Beat Carbine’s Stakes Record
Eurythmic is the horse that finally took Carbine’s crown of Australasia’s highest ever stakes winner. It is fitting that we mention him here when looking at the influence of Carbine’s greatest Australian son in Wallace. Eurythmic was a son of Eudorus
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Wallace More Successful Daughters
We have already touched on some of the great daughters of Wallace at stud. Even then we have missed some absolute champions that trace back to a daughter of the legendary stallion. Braw Lassie by Wallace was responsible for a horse called Bengalla La
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1987 Sydney Cup myocard Vs Major Drive
The 1987 Sydney Cup might not have seemed the most outstanding event. Nevertheless, it was destined to go down in racing folklore, largely because of the characters involved. It is fair to say that by 1987 the once proud tradition of the Sydney Cup w

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