TROTTING Outstanding Races By Falsehood And When

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30055, 13 February 1963, Page 4

TROTTING Outstanding Races By Falsehood And When

While a fair proportion of the disappointingly small crowd of 10,144 which attended the Royal meeting at Hutt Park Raceway on Monday night showed little interest in the actual racing, they were treated to some outstanding performances. Notable among these were the winning efforts of Falsehood in the Queen Elizabeth Handicap and When in the Duke of Edinburgh Handicap, the two feature events on the programme.

Falsehood has to a degree been overshadowed this sea»on by the brilliant four-year-old, Lordship, which became the second horse of his age to win the New Zealand Cup, the premier event on the calendar tor pacers However, Falsehood had nothing in his favour tn the cup and there was considerable merit tn his second placing that day. A feature of his racing has been his remarkable consistency. His only unplaced effort from 19 starts was in the New Zealand Free-for-all at Addington in November when he was all but knocked down at the end of two furlongs and a half and was subsequently pulled up. In all of his 19 races this season. Falsehood has me: fields comprised of the best horses available at the time In most of them he has had to give away starts to most of his rivals, but in none of them has he shown any signs of weakness. His determined finishing runs have been consistently good, even though he was well beaten into third in the Dunedin Festival Cup nine days before his Hutt Park win Falsehood that night was obviously feeljpg the effects of two fairly hard races earlier in the week and he was rather listless. At Hutt .Park there was nothing listless about him. He had to work hard to secure a clear advantage at the end of about five furlongs and from then on none of his rivals was capable of putting him to the test. Fine Combination Falsehood’s outstanding racing this season reflects great credit on the skill of his Belfast trainer. C. S Donald, while much of his success can be attributed to splendid reinsmanship on the part of D. C. Watts, who has handled him in most of his races in the last 12 months. Falsehood’s win on Monday advanced his stakeearnings for the season to £10,285, which is not far short of the £10,515 won during the same period by Lordship. These totals are well below the record for a single season of £15.835 credited to Highland Fling in 1947-48. Vedette won £14,260 in 195051, while Captain Sandy won £10,729 in 1948-49 and Looksway in 1957-58 as a four-year-old. Falsehood has now had 83 starts in five seasons of racing and he has had 18 wins and 29 placings worth £18,165 in Stakes. Falsehood, an eight-year-old son of the Light Brigade horse, Fallacy, the sire of False Step, Dignus and other outstanding winners, is from Aloysios, the dam of several other useful winners for Mr J. Steel, of Greymouth, including the 1962 Auckland Cup winner, Dandy Briar. Falsehood's record is:— Age Starts Wins Placings £ 4yrs 21 3 7 800

Edinburgh Handicap was some compensation for her second placing behind Spinster Scott in the Dominion Handicap at

Addington in November. In that race she met trouble whenever she attempted to improve her position and in the circumstances she did well to finish in the money at aM.

On Monday night she had to work hard for her win and any horse less than a champion could not have achieved such a feat. D. G Jones, the driver of Our Own, realised that When was going to offer him most opposition and he made sure that she had to produce an effort far above average in merit. When moved up on the outside of Our Own with about seven furlongs left and Jones allowed her to take a slender advantage without ever working clear and getting to the rails. First Our Own and then When took short advantages, but ’hey were practically on terms racing to the straight, and from then on they were locked together Keen Finish Both Jones and W. J. Doyle, the driver of When, kept their horses doing their best without much use of the whip and after a thrilling last 150 yards When won by a narrow margin. ■ The pace set over the final seven furlongs by Our Own

and When was far too much for their rivals, which were really struggling to keep up with two furlongs left The third horse. Mighty Brigade, was almost five lengths away, with the remainder straggling past the post. When, which did not start racing until she was a four-year-old, is now in her fourth season of racing. She has compiled an outstanding record for her breeder-trainer-driver, Doyle, one of the most accomplished trainers of trotters in New Zealand. She has been sparingly raced throughout her career and has started on only 43 occasions for 17 wins and 13 placings, worth £19,930 in stakes. As in the case of Falsehood, Light Brigade figures in the pedigree of When. She is a seven-year-old mare by Light Brigade from Passive, by U Scott from the Wrack mare. Violet Wrack. Passive, a useful winner some years ago for Doyle, is also the dam of Reflective. Chances Are and So Rare. When’s record is:—

5yrs 3 • 1 115 6yrs 9 2 2 880 "yr* 31 5 9 4,085 8yr* 19 8 10 10.285 Totals 83 18 29 16,165 When’s win in the Duke of

Stakes Age Starts Wins Placings £ 4yrs 7 3 2 625 5yrs 12 3 6 1,800 6yrs 14 8 o 4.050 7yrs 10 5 3 4,455 Totals 43 17 13 10,930