Nature Strip again showed the quality of Australia’s sprinting stock by dominating a quality field in the King’s Stand at Ascot. It cannot help but take readers, who are old en ...

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 grandfat ...

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 eigh ...

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 ...

Research was a glamour filly of the 1980’s who was trained by Clarrie Connors. By Imperial Prince out of Outing by Boucher, the filly traces back to the stakes winning daughter o ...

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 b ...

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, runni ...

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 ...

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 o ...