Breeding
He was a robust bay gelding standing 15 hands 3 inches high with a good length of rein. Gloaming was sired by the good imported racehorse and sire, The Welkin (GB) out of the unplaced mare, Light (GB), by the good sire, Eager. His paternal grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion, Flying Fox. Gloaming was a brother to seven other named horses, all by The Welkin, including Gloaming's Sister (won AJC Kirkham Stakes), but none were nearly so successful as him. Light was inbred in the third generation (3x3) to Sterling.
Gloaming was sold as a yearling in 1916 for 230 guineas to Mr H. Chisholm acting on behalf of George D. Greenwood, of Teviotdale in the North Island, New Zealand. Following the sale he made his first of 15 crossings of the Tasman Sea.
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