TROTTING Venture By New South Wales Stud

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29237, 22 June 1960, Page 4

TROTTING Venture By New South Wales Stud

An arrangement which will probably have a considerable effect upon the future pattern of the standard-bred breeding industry in the Sydney area has been completed between Mr E. J. Tomkins, proprietor of Prestonville Stud, Windsor, New South Wales, and Mr Noel Simpson, of Yendarra Stud, Otahuhu, according to a recent report in an Australian trotting publication.

Under the breeding arrangement which has been entered into, Mr Simpson, who is at present atteding the International Championship series at Yonkers Raceway, New York, will supply Prestonville Stud with two highlyperformed and well-bred American stallions. He will also send to Windsor 10 to 15 well-bred New Zealand brood mares, the progeny of which will be reared at Prestonville Stud and sold at the annual Sydney sales. The progeny of such mares, sired by American stallions, are certain to be eagerly sought by Australian owners and trainers. Recent competition among buyers is keenest when yearlings by imported sires are offered. The stallions, Highland Laird and King Creed, which will stand the coming season at Prestonville, are of considerable interest for both are 2.omin performers and free-for-all winners. Highland Laird is a black son of the Volomite horse. Wee Laird, and King Creed is a bay stallion by the former world champion Jimmy Creed. Highland Laird Highland Laird took a record of 2.omin when winning the 20,000 dollar Empire State Classic as a five-year-old. That field contained six 2.omin pacers. Highland Laird won two races as a two-year-old, taking a modest record of 2min 12sec. This he smartly reduced to 2min 3 4-ssec as a three-year-old and in the meantime won several classic races. At four he won six races and reduced his record to 2min 0 3-ssec. His seven wins as a six-year-old included four free-for-alls. He was placed in Imin 58 2-ssec in the 12.000 dollar Invitation Pace. Among those which finished behind him were Adios Harry. Imin 55sec, and Widower Creed. Imin 57 l-ssec. winner of the 12-furlong event in the present International series at Yonkers.

At seven, Highland Laird continued to beat many of the greatest pacers in commission, winning 34,000 dollars for that season and defeating no less than 20 two-minute performers. Throughout his career Highland Laird won 28 races and more than 93,000 dollars in stakes, which makes him the biggest stake-winning pacer ever exported from the United States.

Highland Millie, the dam of Highland Laird, had a 2min 7Jsec record as a three-year-old and at the stud produced 12 foals which were all winners. She was by Highland Scott, lmin 59isec, a full-brother to Scotland, from Millie W., a mare which won more than 20,000 dollars when stakes were small. Same Line As Adios King Creed represents the siring line which produced the mighty Adios. His sire, Jimmy Creed, lmin 59 4-ssec, was a world’s champion at two years and also as an aged horse. He won more than 109,000 dollars and is already a great stud success.

being the sire of three 2.omin performers including Widower Creed (winner of more than 200,000 dolars and conqueror of the champion Bye Bye Byrd), Frisco Creed (world’s champion three and four-year-old gelding), King Creed (winner of nearly 50,000 dollars), Honest Jimmy (world’s champion two-year-old gelding) and Pearl Creed (champion four-year-old mare). Jimmy Creed sired the winners of 176 races in 1957. Barbara Me, the dam of King Creed, is the dam of three winners for her first three foals. She is by Hollyrood King from Libra, the dam of five in the 2min lOsec list. Libra is by the two-minute sire Spencer (sire of the dam of Light Brigade), from the great producing mare Starbertha, dam of 10 and grand-dam of 13 in the 2min lOsec class.

King Creed’s fourth dam is the Guy Axworthy mare Bertha Bell, dam of nine and grand-dam uf 10 in 2inin lOsec. This is the female line which produced The Laurel Hall, sire of Dillon Hall. As a racehorse King Creed was a high-class performer, winning 43 races, including free-for-alls, classic and invitation races. He was sound throughout his race career and finished it with a win at Roosevelt Raceway in November, 1959. King Creed won 13 races as a two-year-old. taking a record of 2min 8 3-ssec in winning a classic race at Columbus, Ohio. Reduced Record He won eight races in succession and also two free-for-alls as a three-year-old. He reduced his record that season to 2min 0 1-5 sec. After racing close to twominutes several times he eventually took a 2.0 m in record at Lexington, Kentucky, as a four-year-old. At five and six King Creed continued to win races in the best company at both Roosevelt and Yonkers Raceways. Among his successes as a six-year-old was a 10,000 dollar “A" pace at Roosevelt Raceway. King Creed won the special invitation race in which Ribands competed at Grandview, Ohio, in 1956.

King Creed represents the longest unbroken two-minute siring line in history. This is how it reads:—King Creed (2,omin), by Jimmy Creed (a 2.omin sire), by Frisco Forbes (a 2.omin sire), by Abbedale (a 2.omin sire), by The Abbe (a 2.omin sire)—an unbroken line of six 2.omin producing sires. No other horse in the world has a longer two-minute siring line than this.