Advance was a thoroughbred race horse who won 19 races in New Zealand and Australia.
He was a front-running colt who won over distances up to 1-1/2 miles. Known as "The Black Demon", he was a superior weight-carrier, in his 19 wins he carried more than 9 stobe in 13 of themâÂÂand some rank him as a better horse than Carbine.
He was foaled in 1896, at Parawanui in the Rangitikei district of the North Island by Donald Fraser, he was leased to J.W. Abbott and J.D. Duncan, who raced under the name "Douglas Gordon and J. Monk," and trained by Joe Prosser and ridden by Charlie Jenkins. He won his only two races as a juvenile, and at age three won ten races, seven of them in a row
His dam, Laurel, a chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail, won twenty races for Fraser in a long career, interrupted when she was nine to produce her first foal, and then put back into racing. Her daughter Lorelei (1891, by Cruiser) won the Manawatu Cup (12 furlongs), and other races. Laurel was in-bred to Riddlesworth (1837, by Emilius - Bee-in-a-Bonnet, imported 1843; also sire of Sybil, Family C - 20 ) whose blood was favored by Fraser).
Advance had a number of New Zealand wins:
After this Advance and the owners went to Australia, where they picked up two seconds and a third, and won:
He had a bout of influenza which affected his breathing and he was sidelined at age five but in 1903 he came back to win the:
He was also second in the Wanganui Cup.
Retired to Fraser's stud he sired nothing like himself; his best was the sprinting filly Equitas (Family C - 20), winner of the CJC Stewards' Handicap and other good races, and later dam of the 1919 Wellington Cup and 1920 New Zealand Cup winner Oratress.