TROTTING Danty Star In Form For Futurity Stakes

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28930, 25 June 1959, Page 5

TROTTING Danty Star In Form For Futurity Stakes

Two-year-old pacers will have their last race for the season in the South Auckland Futurity Stakes at the Cambridge Trotting Club’s winter meeting on Saturday. The field of 12 includes five youngsters which will have their first starts at a totalisator meeting. Betting on the race will be dominated by a bracket of three from J. K. Hughes’s Pukekohe team. Danty Star, a failure in a maiden, race at the Thames meeting a fortnight ago. will probably do best of the trio.

Danty Star recorded three placings earlier in the season, her best effort being a second to the brilliant Hautapu in the Great Northern Stakes at Auckland last month.

She raced in fifth position most of the way and finished on in grand style for her placing, although she had no chance with the winner. Saturday’s field does not look to be particularly strong and she will only have to begin reasonably well to gain an overdue win.

Danty Star is by Scottish Star, a U. Scott horse which showed fine form a few years ago when trained by Hughes. She is out of Mundanity, which also showed good winning form for Hughes. Fitment and Modern Song will be bracketed with Danty Star. Fitment had his first race at Franklin last November and finished a fair seventh. He is reported to have trained on well lately and may take part in the finish.

Modern Song will be having his first race start. He is a colt by the Volomite horse. Flying Song, from Modern Methods. He was bred at Heddon Bush by Mr W. R. Hamilton, and bought by Mr W. Hos- ?' ng ’ of Waiuku. for 250gns at 1958 yearling sales. He is bl ed to be good, being closely related to Aerogard. Smile Again Grand Mogul, Bruce Hall and Super Royal. Only Winner In Field Dandy Andy is expected to offer most opposition to Danty Star. H?. 1 ® t J’ e only horse in the fi eld which has won a race. Trained at Kumeu by O. E. Nicholas, he Is a colt by Intangible, the sire or Hautapu, from Marion Direct He raced last in the Great Northern stakes in May and after leading to the straight he tired to finish fourth. That effort is superior to the form shown by fiX ° f a l he , remain der in this field and he should at least finish in the money. wffh re n°' S j ßeS * W J U be bracketed with Dandy Andy. An unraced gelding he is by Loreto from Level Best, a Josedale Grattan mare which graduated to a tight mark a few years ago. T 1 * s a likely improver. b££_has had only two starts and

at the most recent of them she finished fifth in the Great Nbrthern Stakes. She was handily placed all the way and battled on gamely to finish close up. She is a half-sister by Flying Song to Explicit, which was unbeaten in her first 11 races in Victoria. She was bred by Mr J. W. Dalgety. at Kakanui, who offered her at the 1958 yearling sales. She was passed in at 550gns. but was later purchased for 750gns by her trainer, A. Levy, of Huapai. Flying Tui is a well-grown filly and it is expected that she will improve with age. The other unfaced youngsters are Eugene's Pride, Kid Sister and Loreto's Pride. Eugene’s Pride is a filly by Scottish Legion, a useful winner at the trotting gait, from Clayteen, a winner at a pacing gait. She is trained at Te Rapa by E. Wallis.

Kid Sister, a member of W. Matheson’s Mangere team, is a filly by .Loreto from Zulu Lass, a Great Parrish mare which left the winners, Zulu Boy, Merrie Scott, Zulu’s Pride and Zuleto. -

Loreto’s Pride, which is trained at Epsom by H. Johnston, is a filly by Loreto from a fine winner. Bexley Girl, which took a twomile record of 4min 19sec. A Jack Potts mare, Bexley Girl left several winners, including Bexley’s Pride, Bekdale, Logan Girl. Sir Bexley and Melrose Girl.