PROGENY OF U SCOTT

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25551, 20 July 1948, Page 7

PROGENY OF U SCOTT

TROTTING

£57,562 WON THIS SEASON U. Scott’s total of £57,562 this season sets a new sire’s record for the Dominion, says the ‘‘New Zealand Trotting Calendar.” The previous record total was Jack Potts’s £53,806 10s,- in the 1945-46 season. The progeny of Dillon Hall have won 114 races this season, a total that falls 18 short of the record of 132 established by the progeny of Jack Potts in the 1941*42 season. The first six places on the list of leading sires are occupied by American-im-ported horses. Then comes Gold Bar, which is the leading colonial-bred stallion for the first time. The following is the list of sires of stock which have won more than £lO,OOO in stakes this season:—U. Scott, 78 wins, 150 placings, £57,562; Jack Potts, 69 wins, 162 placings, £50,900; Dillon Hall, 114 wins, 275 placings, £50,786; Grattan Loyal, 94 wins, 206 placings, £44,840 10s; Quite Sure. 77 wins, 225 placings, £40,127; Sandydale, 63 wins, 146 placings, £24,070; Gold Bar, 27 wins, 70 placings, £14,041; Gamble, 17 wins, 41 placings, £11,820 10s; Lusty Volo, 26 wins, 67 placings, £10,400 10s. Jottings Mala is working nicely for T. Thompson at Riccarton. A neatly-made marC she has some ability, but she cannot be supported with confidence until she learns to begin correctly. Paddy Potts, which is now being trained by A. Purdon. is well forward in his preparation for his races at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting at Addington next month. The trotter, Max Baer, which is in Da Townley’s team at Hinds, was prominent when racing against the pacers at the Ashburton Trotting Club’s winter meeting A likely improver, he may win a race under Townley’s guidance season. The stock of Lucky Jack have won 23 races, gained 53 placings, and earned £6619 in stakes this season. Prominent in Trbtting Sport

Mr E. F. C. Hinds, who was prominent in the trotting sport, mainly through his connexion with a grand pacer in Harold Logan, died in Christchurch yesterday. Other winners in which Mr Hinds was interested included David’s Pride, Three Tens, Tactless, and Llewellyn’s Pet. At a Short Price

Flying Bomb, a winner in Victoria, was backed down to six to one on when he was taken to Sydney to race in the Glebe Trotters” Handicap at Harold Park last month. A big son of the imported Roy Redmond, Flying Bomb justified his confident support by winning with the greatest of ease from Admiral Sorrento. Flying Bomb has impressed Australian critics, who predict that he will develop into a high-class performer. A Promising Filly Good judges who have watched Mr C. L. Rhodes’s two-year-old filly by Light Brigade from Princess Gaillard in action rate her as one of the most promising young trotters seen out in recent years. Her dam, Princess Gaillard, which was bred at Riccarton by Free Holmes, is by Gaillard from Wild Princess, the dam Jf winners in Princess de Oro and Royal Grattan. By Wildwood Junior, Wild Prin- 1 cess is out of Tracey Princess, by Prince Imperial from Rose, by General Tracey from Phyllis, by Berlin from a mare by Quicksilver.

By Quite Sure , 1 . Mr M. R. Hampton h»s Registered hih three-year-old gelding by 'Quite Sure from Two Crosses as Cocksure. A well-bred mare, Two Crosses, which was bred by Miss J. Cuff, is by Rey de Oro from Regina Logan, the dam of a large family of winners including Regina Derby, Pola Negri, Southern Smile, volorna, Southern Chief, Southland, and Walter Moore.

Miss Cuff’s team at Hinds includes a promising four-year-old gelding in Luck Ahead, which is by the Australian-bred Brilliant Globe from Regina Logan, by Logan Pointer from Regina de Oro, by Copa de Oro from Regina Belle, by Bellman from Regina, by Berlin.