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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22194, 10 September 1937, Page 16

Trains for Ashburton

Pointer —Bonnie Bingen; Two’s Loose, by Jack Potts, Mercedes; Stamboul, by Frank Worthy—Trix Pointer; Bayard, by Frank Worthy—Bonny Logan; and Blaydon, by Jack Potts —Ablaze. The sires and dams of these three-year-olds were among the greatest racehorses the light-harness sport has known. Great Bingen, the sire of Refund and grandsire of Sandusky, was a champion of champions; Jack Potts was a high-grade racehorse and narrowly missed adding the Auckland Cup to his long list of victories; Jewel Pointer was also in the first rank; and Frank Worthy, who did not race in New Zealand, took a very fast record and was accounted one of the best looking horses in America, Of the dams, Trix Pointer was a New Zealand Cup and Free-for-All winner; Free Advice, when trained by W. J. Tomkinson, was one of the best pacers in New Zealand; and for consistency there have been few greater mares than Bonny Logan. Jack Potts, Frank Worthy, and Mercedes were all imported from America, while Great Bingen’s sire and dam were both imported, and Jewel Pointer’s sire was the famous Logan Pointer. American blood dominates the breeding of the [Wellington Stakes field.