GLOBE DXBECT RETIRED

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26363, 6 March 1951, Page 4

GLOBE DXBECT RETIRED

WINNER OF 15 RACES AND £19,710 Globe Direct has been retired to the stud and he will probably stand in Canterbury neat season. Already he has covered a number of mares and the first of his progeny are now two-year-olds, one of which is being educated at Ranciora for Mr H. R. Brian, who raced Globe Direct. Globe Direct was bred by Mr W. tV Lowe, Hinds, who sold him to Mr Brien. He did his early racing from R. B. Berry’s establishment at Yald-

■huret, and as a two-year-old he won the Oaniaru . Juvenile Stakes from Local Gold and Sprayman. The following season he was trained by R. J. Berry and for him he won the Canterbury Three-yeaf-old Stakes and the Metropolitan Challenge Stakes. Towards the end of the season he was transferred to M. Holmes’s team and he won a handicap race for him and finished second to Sir Michael in the New Zealand Futurity Stakes. As a four-year-old he started off by winning the’Metropolitan Stakes from Sir Michael and he met with a fair measure of success later in the year. His only successes as a five-year-old were in the Smithson Handicap at the New Zealand Cup meeting and the free-for-all Au Revoir Sprint at the Canterbury Park meeting when he beat Grattan Drive by a nose. Globe Direct won his way to Cup company the following season and at his first appearance in the big race in 1948 he finished a close fourth to Loyal Nurse, Captain Sandy, and Lady Averill; recording 4mln 13 4-saec for the •two. myes.' 4 , Later in the season he was taken to Australia for the Inter-Dominion Championships at Melbourne. Ha won one heat and finished fourth: in ■ Znis season >he started out on a high note by spreadfoqgling a useful field In the Lightning Handicap at Addington on August 19. He failed to reproduce this xorm in hit subsequent starts and failed miserably in the New Zealand Trottirig Cup and in his heats at the IntSrDominion Championship meeting. Throughout his career Globe Direct was not extensively raced for 15 wins, 82 placing!, and £19,710 in stakes. He is an eight-year-old stallion by the successful Australian-bred horse, Springfield Globe, from Molly Direct, which was a useful race mare by Jack Potts from Heal Girl, by Real Guy, tracing back to Jessie B. Globe Direct is a particularly weu-bred horse, and he should be successful at the stud. Molly Direct is also the dam pi Chief Lociel and Safeguard. tatea, in the Timaru Centennial Trotting Cup, the Springfield Globe mare will not be without prospects If started. She was having only her fourth race for the season When she accounted for Boston Lady and Tp Maru in the Brisbane Handicap on the third day of the Inter-Dominion Championship meeting. Mighty Song has more than average ability, and she. la expected to win her way to a tight mark. After being bought by Mr R. Jopp and placed with P. P. Gallagher at Washdyke, Mighty Song had three wins and a third from five starts towards the end of last season. Mighty Song is a five-year-old mare by Springfield Globe from Nell Grattan, which had a mile and a half record of 3mln 12sec. Mighty Song’s second dam is First Water, founder of one Cf the most successful families in the Stud Book, First Lord, Trustee, Barrier Reef, Global Vovage, and Dark Water are iust a few of the horses tracing back to First Water.

Pseera for Sydney Sixteen New Zealand pacers, including Single Direct and Sprayman, are due to leave for Sydney as soon as the waterfront strike is settled. The majority of them at the Royal Jubilee Show at Easter. Auckland, and it had been hoped to race them at the Royal Jubilee Shoy st Easter. E. N. Kennerley, who Is to settle in Sydney, was taking Single Direct, Holden, Gay Warrior, Centennial Hall, and a number of young horses. Pr-sent plans are to start Single Direct in the Jubilee Cup in May. Single Direct has a good record in Australia. In 1949 he won' the InterDominion Championship at Wayvllle, and on a recent visit to Perth he won the £5OOO Jubilee Cup and a free-for-all.

Sprayman. which has won more than £lO,OOO in stakes in New Zealand, is being taken to Sydney by his owner, Mr N. Slmnson, who will also have charge of Petty Officer. Maie-ta,; Lucky Irish, Expensive, and Yenda loss. It is likely that Sprayman will be left in Australia on Mr Simpson's return. He hss failed to measure Uo to best classes in this country, and the Gamble gelding is on an awkward mark. He should do well in Australia, as he is a good beginner and he will be well suited by the distance of the races there.

Another New Zeal'nd trainer is takinMargaret Gaillard, Field Marshall. Tid: Lady, Gather, Gay Parrish, and Jerr: Ideal.

Canterbury Park Trotting Club Nominations for sll events at the Can terbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting t< be held on Easter Saturday, March 2' will close at 8 p.m. on Thursday. —Advt