LEADING SIRE.

Auckland Star, 2 September 1933, Page 17

LEADING SIRE.

SUCCESS IN CLASSICS. NOTES ON RECENT FORM. Wrack, who heads the sires' list this season, is of the .younger generation as aires go, and his rise has been phenomenal. His oldest progeny are seven years, and he has set- -a new record by topping the list in such a short space of time. . Wrack took a record of 2.1%, covering the last half in 58/4s, and was known as the "iron horse," so well did he wear on the race track. He is of a particularly attractive individuality (says "Ribbonwood"), and has a well-balanced pedigree. He was got by Peter the Great, and his dam was Colorado Belle (2.7 1-5), a daughter of Colorado E. (2.4%). Wrack has sired a greater percentage of classic winners than any other sire in the history of trotting ill the Dominion. ■ Wrackler won both Derbies in 1028. Arethusa won the Sapling Stakes and Xew Zealand Derby in 1930, Ciro won the New Zealand Derby, and Tempest the Great Northern Derby in 1931 and Indianapolis won the Great Northern Derby last year. White Satin won the Sires' Produce Stakes, for three-year-old trotters, at Forbury. • In addition, Wrackler has proved a champion dnal gaiter. He went on to win the New Zealand Cup, and two years later he won the: Dominion Handicap, the highest honour for a trotter. If he never leaves another winner, Wrack has gained everlasting fame by siring Wrackler, and there is no saying to what heights Indianapolis may yet attain. REMAINED AT EPSOM. The Al- Mack gelding Stormy Mack did not return to Tamahere after the Auckland meeting and remained at Epsom, where he -will probably- be trained in future. His second place in the 2.56 class on Saturday will send him back to 2.54, which-seems- a solid penalty- for earning less than £20. THE SAME AGAIN.

The prediction made that the stake and conditions governing the New Zealand Cup this seaso.n would be similar to those of last year: has been borne out. The committee ofythe Metropolitan Trotting Club has decided the stake will again be £1500 and the jrace open to horses assessed at 4J2Q or better, SOMETHING WRONG. The pocvr efforts recorded by Kewpie's Guy on Saturday makes it very evident that all is" not'riglit with the chestnut mare. F; -Smith presented her in good condition, , : but. in neither of the two races ehe contested'did she show even a eemblanee" of -her real ability. She must fee proving a puzzle to her trainer, who did so well with her in the autumn of last eeason when he first got her. In the ■winter she lost' her form and has not struck it again. . KNOWS NO WRONG. Dan Direct, a pacer who knows nothing wrong, is in light work and is looking ■well after his spell v " :In- action he is one of the finest pacerViri the land, but, while he has plenty of speed, he is not good at two miles. A couple of youngsters by the imported horse have been handled and have repeiyed'their first lessons. They handle themselves, well and look like worthili^SepfesentinK . their sire later on •when tjte jtime comeff i or them to race. eijiyiAßßON' IN WORK. The speedy pacer Gimarron is doing light exercise at Epsom, and hie .trainer, I. Morrison., will.. soon be sending the gelding .;along. Cimarron was undoubtedly the besjJL-yourig pacer racing in Auckland last season,-and there was a lot of .merit in his wound tip the eeagbn.with..' He is possessed _of a brilliant i;burst.., of .speed, -.and, being Still on -a- good mart, there "is a merry time in sfrprejior. those whose'job it will be to give Kim-a start. ■ : A LIKELY NOVICE. Though Great Chum did not make much <rf a showing in the Mount Eden Handicap on Saturday Inst, the three-year-old eon of Nelson Bingen—-Harvest Home takes the eye as a pacer likely .to be heard of later in the season when he has had more experience. It was only his second run in public, and the colt could hardly be expected to hold his own with more experienced horses, particularly in a big field. Great Chum is a half-brother to Guid Hairst. HARD PROPOSITION. A. McGarry, who purchased Student Prince cheaply, looks to have interested himself in a tough proposition, as the chestnut has raced for seasons without picking up a stake. Early in his career, when owned by the Messrs. McKendriek Brothers, and trained by J. Eryce in Christchurch, Student Prince won a small race, but since then the well-bred son of Blue Mountain King and Lou Dillon has done nothing'but-lose. McGarry, a few eeasons ago, took on an equally tough proposition in Glandore, and won money With the roan pacer. GLOBE DERBY ON TOP. In addition to being leading sire in Victoria and Tasmania Globe Derby has been ■well represented in West Australia, where his son Prince Derby has earned the distinction of leading sire. During his racing career Prince Derby proved that he was a, generous racehorse, and a great pacer. After winning his first five races in the Commonwealth, including the West Australian Derby, he was shipped to New Zealand, where he went into B. Jarden s etable. Under Jarden's supervision, Prince Derby won several races, concluding his racing in the Dominion by winning 'a mile race at Addington in 2.11 2-5. He also had a two-mile record of 4.32 2-5.