Although well bred, Night Raid was only moderately successful on the racecourse, not winning any of his six starts in England, but he did finish third in a Nursery Selling Plate. In Australia he had twenty-nine starts for one win and a dead heat.[2]
Stud recordedit
Night Raid served one season at stud in Australia during 1923 and then resumed racing. He was retired to stud in New Zealand in 1924. His legacy as a sire is outstanding. Night Raid sired two great racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch, victors in the successive Group One, Melbourne Cup in 1929 and 1930.
In all Night Raid sired 13 stakeswinners that had 75 stakeswins, including:
night, raid, other, uses, disambiguation, foaled, 1918, england, leading, sire, australia, thoroughbred, racehorses, sired, leading, racehorses, phar, nightmarch, 1932, sireradiumgrandsirebend, ordamsentimentdamsirespearmintsexstallionfoaled1918countrygreat, b. For other uses see Night Raid disambiguation Night Raid foaled 1918 in England was a Leading sire in Australia of Thoroughbred racehorses He sired two leading racehorses Phar Lap and Nightmarch Night RaidNight Raid in 1932 SireRadiumGrandsireBend OrDamSentimentDamsireSpearmintSexStallionFoaled1918CountryGreat BritainColourBayBreederMajor F C SternOwner 1 Archie Douglas Pennant 2 J McGuigan 3 Peter Keith 4 A P Wade 5 A F Roberts at stud Trainer 1 Captain Tom Hogg 2 J McGuigan 3 Peter Keith 4 George Jones for A P WadeRecord25 2 0 1Awards1929 1931 Leading sire in AustraliaLast updated on 18 November 2010 Contents 1 Background 2 Racing career 3 Stud record 4 See also 5 ReferencesBackground editHe was sired by the Doncaster Cup and Goodwood Cup winner Radium and his dam Sentiment was by The Derby winner and good sire Spearmint Radium was the sire of several stakes winners including Clarissimus who won 2 000 Guineas Stakes Sentiment s only stakes winner was Night Raid He was line bred to Galopin in the 4th and 5th generation 4m x 5f 1 Racing career editAlthough well bred Night Raid was only moderately successful on the racecourse not winning any of his six starts in England but he did finish third in a Nursery Selling Plate In Australia he had twenty nine starts for one win and a dead heat 2 Stud record editNight Raid served one season at stud in Australia during 1923 and then resumed racing He was retired to stud in New Zealand in 1924 His legacy as a sire is outstanding Night Raid sired two great racehorses namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch victors in the successive Group One Melbourne Cup in 1929 and 1930 In all Night Raid sired 13 stakeswinners that had 75 stakeswins including Blixten won RRC Rosehill Guineas etc Nightbeam won The Metropolitan ATC etc Nightly winner of seven Principal Races in Australia and New Zealand including CJC New Zealand Derby MVRC Moonee Valley Cup CJC Canterbury Cup Nightmarch RRC Rawson Stakes New Zealand Cup Melbourne Cup WS Cox Plate New Zealand Derby and AJC Epsom Handicap Phar Lap Australian Derby VRC Melbourne Cup Victoria Derby WS Cox Plate twice and 1932 Agua Caliente Handicap plus Aesulus Lady Graceful Pillow Fight Peter Jackson and The Cardinal all of which were good horses in their own right 2 3 See also editList of racehorses Thoroughbred racing in New Zealand Thoroughbred racing in AustraliaReferences edit Morris Simon Tesio Power 2000 Stallions of the World Syntax Software a b Pring Peter Analysis of Champion Racehorses The Thoroughbred Press Sydney 1977 ISBN 0 908133 00 6 ASB Night Raid GB Retrieved on 2009 6 9 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Night Raid amp oldid 1178985026, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
