COMARA PRINCESS- FM
COMARA PRINCESS- FM was born on the 1st August, 1948 and purchased by Frank Hill, father of Theo Hill, at the Willawarrin Campdraft. Prior to purchasing her, Theo and his father had been watching her in action.
When the rider lost the beast, instead of pulling up he kept chasing the steer to the fence, when the beast and the horse spun back off the fence the rider fell off. Impressed by the mare, Frank sent well known horseman, Jack Smythe to see if she could be purchased. The owner Frank‘ Smacker’ Creeley, set the price at 75 pounds, so the cheque was written and COMARA PRINCESS- FM was now in the ownership of the Hill Family.
In 1959 Theo Hill won the Novice campdraft on her at Willawarrin. Theo had wonderful success with her in campdrafts on the North Coast of New South Wales, winning and being placed on numerous occasions. Unfortunately, no one ever kept an account of what she won. Not a big mare, not really much bigger than a pony, she had wonderful cattle sense. She was a great mare working on Comara Station, and always put in a one hundred percent effort.
COMARA PRINCESS- FM was by the TB Bulga Boy, who at that time was throwing a lot of good campdrafters on the North Coast. Through Bulga Boy, COMARA PRINCESS- FM went back to the great TB sire St Simon. A photo taken of St Simon in the late 1800s and ABDUL- IS with his trophy for the Warwick Gold Cup show an incredible body similarity. No one is sure of the breeding of the dam of COMARA PRINCESS- FM.
COMARA PRINCESS- FM went to stud in 1962 and produced a very talented colt that was registered as EAGLE. EAGLE was by BLACK RADIANT- FS, and he went on to not only campdraft successfully but to sire the winner of the Warwick Gold Cup, Fourex. Eagle was also a very good polo pony, with Theo playing international polo on him against Argentina.
As good a horse as EAGLE was, the next foal of COMARA PRINCESS- FM was to prove even more successful, a colt by ABBEY- FS, called ABDUL- IS. Theo Hill and Harry Ball, the owner of ABBEY- FS, were travelling friends to rodeos and often they had remarked on how much ABBEY- FS and COMARA PRINCESS- FM worked alike. They made a deal where Theo would lend Harry a Comara mare, COMARA BLONDIE, to get a foal and Harry would
COMARA PRINCESS- FM and Theo Hill
give Theo a free service by ABBEY- FS to COMARA PRINCESS- FM. Theo got his colt, ABDUL- IS, but unfortunately, Harry was killed in a road accident before he got his side of the bargain.
‘ ABDUL- IS was undoubtedly the greatest horse I ever rode,’ said Theo Hill. ABDUL- IS the winner of the Warwick Gold Cup went on to be one of our greatest sires.
COMARA PRINCESS- FM also had two geldings by Tomahawk: COMARA AMEGO and PETERS JOKER, and four mares by ABBEY- FS: COMARA VICKI, COMARA RAVEN, COMARA ABICARE and COMARA ABBRA. These mares also produced quality foals. COMARA ABBRA is the dam of WINDRA BET, who is the dam of successful sire KIRKBY STUD OMAHA.
The town of Willawarren figures prominently in the history of COMARA PRINCESS- FM, it was where she was purchased by the Hill Family, where she won her first draft for them and it was where ABBEY- FS, the sire she had so much success with was born. With over 8,100 descendants, she is the fourth most influential mare in the Australian Stock Horse Stud Book.
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