Makarpura was by Big Game out of the Gold Bridge mare, Cap D’Or. He was imported to Australia for stud duties as a 4yo, and had been a good sprinter in England winning the New Stakes as a 2yo in 1948. His dam Cap D’or had herself been a good racehorse being unbeaten as a 3yo. Makapura had been a 14,000 guinea purchase as a yearling by the Gaekwar of Baroda. Baroda was a dynasty of the Hindu Maratha Confederacy and its later state of Baroda in western India from the early 18th century until 1947. Makarpura sired a total of fifteen stakes winners including dual Warrnambool Cup winner, Puramaka and dual WA Railway Stakes winner, Tudor Mak. His half brother, Bold Buccaneer also came to Australia for stud duties where he had some success siring six stakes winners including Rosehill Guineas and Rawson Stakes victor Bold Pilot, AJC Breeders’ Plate winner Front Cover, and 1957 QTC Hopeful Stakes winner Tobermory Bay. Another sibling, the Champion 2yo English filly, Fair Dinah was to become a prolific broodmare, whose family still continues in many countries today.
Another of Makarpura’s stakes winners was the 1960 QTC McDougall Stakes winner, Miss Copley who was to go on to be
