Innehållsförteckning för July 2022 från Turf Monthly

Battle Song was a son of Spion Kop who was among the last of his stakes winners. He was a quality galloper who won the Irish St Leger by eight lengths and the Irish Champion Stakes. His full brother Hill Song was also to win the St Leger. Battle Song was also to run second in the Irish Derby and 2000 Guineas. Bred by Major E Shirley, Battle Song was sold to Mr G Kain of South Canterbury for stud duties in NZ. Battle Song was out of a Hurry On mare called Cradle Song who in turn was out of Verve by Velocity. Verve was a half-sister to Vauclase by Dark Ronald who was the dam of Bongrace, one of Spion Kop’s most famous daughters as we have seen.…

Given the horse’s popularity in Australia, it was not surprising that local studs were to import some of his sons with mixed success. Double Remove had few starts as a 2yo, running second to Raeburn in the Column Produce Stakes at Newmarket. Double Remove stood at Kia Ora Stud in NSW and had a very bright start to his stud career, producing the very good filly All Love in his first crop. All Love was to become the champion 2yo of her year winning six stakes races in the AJC Gimcrack Stakes, Champagne Stakes, and Hobartville Stakes in Sydney, and the Maribyrnong Plate, Byron Moore Stakes and VRC Sires’ Produce in Melbourne. Double Remove has continued to play a role in Australian racing, and we can see a number of…

The daughters of Felstead have ensured that the stallion continues his influence into the modern thoroughbred. Felstead’s best progeny was the filly Rockfel who won the One Thousand Guineas, Epsom Oaks Stakes and Champion Stakes. Rockfel produced a son by Hyperion called Rockefella who, although not a prolific source of stakes winners, had a remarkable influence on Australian racing. Rockefella’s daughter, Angela Rucellia produced a French bred son called Andrea Mantegna by Ribot. He won seven of his nine starts in Italy including the Premio d'Estate, Premio Roma Vecchia, Premio UNIRE, Premio Boschetti, and Premio Saltri. The stallion was retired to stud in Italy in 1966 but was later sent to the UK in 1974. His daughter Ada Hunter was to change the nature of Australian racing in the 1970’s…

Major Giles Loder inherited Eyrefield Lodge Stud upon the death of his uncle, Major Eustace Loder in 1914. The Loder family incidentally had made its fortune through great grandfather, Giles Loder who found his empire in Russia. Reportedly he was worth £3,000,000, a huge sum in the 1800’s. Giles’ only son, Robert, left eight sons including Eustace who left his thoroughbred empire to Giles. Among Eustace’s greatest thoroughbreds as we have discussed were Spearmint, Pretty Polly and another wonderful mare in Hammerkop. Hammerkop from 1902 to 1909, starting 51 times. She won the July Stakes at Newmarket, two Alexandra Plates at Ascot, the Yorkshire Oaks, the Great Yorkshire Handicap, and the Cesarewitch. She also ran second in the Epsom Oaks and her winnings totalled £10,793. When mated with Spearmint, she…

The most notable son of Felstead to be brought to Australia was Abbots Fell. Not only was Abbots Fell a well performed racehorse, but he was imported on lease by flamboyant Sydney identity Jim Bendrodt who established Princes Park Stud which was later to become the property of legendary Australian trainer, Bart Cummings. Abbots Fell was one of the most expensive horses brought to Australia at the time, having been purchased for 32,500 guineas in England for stud duties at the end of his racing career. In England he was fully booked for four seasons and Bendrodt even sent two mares to him before sealing the deal. Abbots Fell was a versatile runner, having won at distances from four furlongs to a mile and a half although never quite winning…

To many, Kingston Town is unrivalled. His three wins in the Cox Plate are underlined by legendary race caller Bill Collins’ infamous comment where he said that “Kingston Town can’t win” only to see the Champion prevail. The three victories were certainly the thing that legends are made of, and Kingston Town is a true legend of the sport. He is also one of the inaugural inductees into the Hall of Fame, and the first Australian racehorse to earn a million dollars in stakes. The story of Kingston Town starts on a golf course, leads us to the personal hearth of perhaps the world’s greatest thoroughbred breeder in Federico Tesio in Italy, and eventually to all the major racetracks of Australia. Norman von Nida was a legend on the golf…

Bongrace was owned by Lord Rosebery. She won the Newmarket Jockey Club Cup in 1926 beating the older stallion, Glomming by a neck in a field of five. She was to win a total of eight races in her career. At stud, her best runner was Ribbon by Fairway who won the 1942 Middle Park Stakes. She was the champion juvenile filly and as a 3yo ran second in the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks, and St Leger Stakes. Her daughter Laurel by Hyperion produced Lark by Chanteur who won the Group 3 Cheshire Oaks at Chester and Cornwallis Stakes at Ascot. Lark’s full sister Laverock though was to be the one to continue the legacy of this line ultimately being responsible for Hurricane Run by Montjeu. The German bred Hurricane Run…

Felstead was perhaps the best son of Spion Kop. Owned by Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen of Sunningdale Stud at Berkshire, Felstead was also to win the Epsom Derby like his sire. He was a bay horse standing 16.2 hands with a white blaze and white socks on his hind legs. Cunliffe-Owen purchased the mare Felkington by Lemberg at the Newmarket sales in July 1924 for 2,100 guineas in foal to Spion Kop, with Felstead the resultant foal. Felkington had been a good race mare and was to become an outstanding broodmare. Apart from Felstead, she was to also produce six other winners including Finis who won the 1941 Gold Cup at Ascot. She saw her damsire as William The Third, but more interestingly, had the great Carbine as her grand damsire.…

This article was published: in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, 1993 online in 2006 James Charles Bendrodt (1891-1973), roller-skater and restaurateur, was born on 26 June 1891 at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, son of James Peter Bendrodt, a Danish sea-captain, and his wife Emily Caroline Delphina, née Swanson. Having attended school at Vancouver, Jimmy worked his passage to Sydney as a stoker, arriving by 1910 with only £5. Dark, lithe and muscular, he claimed to have been a lumberjack and to hold Canadian roller-skating titles. With his partner George Irving, Bendrodt prospered as a trick-skater in Sydney and on country tours. Appointed manager of the new Imperial Roller Rink, Hyde Park, he soon secured the lease and fostered an exclusive and decorous image that was to characterize all…