TWO-YEAR-OLD TEAM

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29130, 16 February 1960, Page 4

TWO-YEAR-OLD TEAM

Adioway May Be Best

The Yaldhurst trainer. G. B. Nobel, who prepares a large team for Mr R. A. McKenzie, of Wellington, usually has one or two very capable first-season runners in his stable. Adioway, the Canterbury Park Juvenile Stakes winner at Addington on Saturday, proved very much a class above his two-year-old rivals. His stablemate, Adios Duenna, also improved a useful record of minor placings in the same race. The Canterbury Park Juvenile Stakes was Adioway’s first race at a totalisator meeting. His winning run was not entirely unexpected, for he had already displayed exceptional ability at race trials, the latest being at New Brighton last Wednesday, when he out-ran another capable youngster, Don Ngaree, in his heat. Among Adioway’s 15 rivals at Addington were Summit Road and Moose, the respective winners of the Golden Slipper Stakes at Waimate and the Rangiora Raceaway Stakes. Although he was outclassed. Summit Road managed to do best of the others, five lengths behind Adioway, but Moose could not quicken from a handy position and was a weakening fifth in a gap of four lengths. Adioway is a bay gelding by Captain Adios. a son of the champion American sire, Adios. and Shy Ann, which was imoorted to the Dominion for stud duty by the Roydon Lodge Stud, Yaldhurst. Adioway, which credited his sire with his first winner, is one of Captain Adios’s first crop. Also Bred in U.S. Spangled Queen, the dam of Adioway, also traces back to a family bred in the United States. Her second dam. Spangled Maiden (by Volomite). was foaled in the United States in 1937 and imported to New Zealand by the late Sir John McKenzie in 1940. Her first mating in this country, with U. Scott, produced Spangled Scott, the granddam of Adioway. Adioway is Spangled Queen’s second foal. Her first, a filly by U. Scott, is the three-year-old Spangled Princess which showed ability to finish second in the fastest of four qualifying heats at the New Brighton trials last Wednesday. The convincing win of Adioway is almost certain to strengthen the demand for youngsters from Captain Adios’s second crop which will be offered at the national sales of standardbred yearlings at Addington next month. The offering of nine Captain Adios yearlings includes four colts, one of which is a fullbrother to Adioway. Among the Scott 1S 3 d au £bter of Spangled

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