TROTTING Johnny Globe’s Earnings Now Amount To £27,260

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27491, 27 October 1954, Page 5

TROTTING Johnny Globe’s Earnings Now Amount To £27,260

Johnny Globe became the greatest stake-winner racing in New Zealand at the present time when he outclassed his opponents in the £lOOO Hannon Memorial Handicap, the main race on the final day of the Oamaru Trotting Club’s spring meeting On Monday. The £650 first prize carried his total earnings past those of Vedette, which has won £26.920, including a trophy valued at £4O received when he won a match race at Cambridge recently.

Stakes won by Johnny Globe total £27.260. Johnny Globe’s win on Monday was his first for the season, and his twentyfifth in a career extending over a little more than five seasons. He has contested 72 races for 25 wins and 32 placings—a record probably not bettered in recent years. The performance of Johnny Globe to win on Monday was one of the greatest of many fine wins by the Logan Derby seven-year-old. He was five or six lengths from the leader at the halfmile post, and to get near the front by the straight entrance he had to race four and five out.

As the field straightened up, he was asked for an effort, and in a few strides he made many fine pacers look second-rate. He bounded away from the field and won easing up by three lengths and a half. Johnny Globe’s last half-mile must have been very fast, as the leaders took 60sec for that section, the last quarter in 29 3-ssec.

Johnny Globe has now entered discussions for the New Zealand Trotting Cup. which will be run at Addington on Tuesday, November 9. Johnny Globe has already had three runs in the cup, his best effort being as a four-year-old, when he finished second to Van Dieman. Last year he filled a similar position behind Adorian, after losing ground in the early running. From 48 yards in this year’s cup race, Johnny Globe will be set a most difficult task, but if he races as well as he did on Monday, he will have more than an outside chance.

Johnny Globe looked a much fitter horse when paraded on Monday than he did when he finished third to Caduceus and Tactician in the All-Aged Stakes at Ashburton on October 2. He blew after his race at Ashburton, but at Oamaru he returned to the birdcage looking as fresh as if he had just come out of the paddock.

Even if Johnny Globe fails in the cup, he will have a second-to-none chance of improving his record in three free-for-alls on the later days of the meeting.

Johnny Globe’s full record is as follows:

Age Starts Wins Placings Stakes Two years 6 1 4 , 930 Three years 13 5 7 4,195 Four years 19 8 8 9,360 Five years 14 5 5 4 - 4 }5 Six years 16 5 6 7.4o0 Seven years 4 12 910 Totals 72 25 32 27,260