FROM STUD AND STABLE Two Wins After Unorthodox Preparation

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30115, 26 April 1963, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Two Wins After Unorthodox Preparation

There is no record of two-year-olds being trained on Lydiard lines. But there was a touch of the unusual a touch of the unusual, though i t was unscheduled, in Boundless’s training programme before the Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting, where he won both the Champagne and Challenge Stakes.

Six days before he was to run in the Champagne Stakes Boundless took charge of a light apprentice, and instead of sprinting half a mile in training, he enthusiastically

ran a mile and more at a solid pace.

But if there were any effects they were beneficial, and Boundless won the Champagne Stakes in style though his rider was under difficulties with a slipped saddle almost from the start.

Boundless won the Challenge Stakes nearly as easily on Tuesday, and even with all that activity at the end of a few busy weeks, Mrs W. H. Williamson’s colt is fresh and keen.

But there is little left for the two-year-olds after Easter, and Boundless will probably be away from racing until next season—unless it is decided to take him to Australia.

Present plans are for Boundless to have an easy time until July. Then he will start a preparation for important spring races.

“He will be given a bit to do each week," said his trainer, J. R. Shaw, yesterday. “He’s such a character that he could not be put right out of training. As it is, right now he is ready to race right at his best again. You’d never think he had had two races in the last week or so.”

Shaw thinks Boundless was unlucky not to win three races lately instead of two. With a better run, he says. Boundless would have probably won the Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes, instead of finishing third.

John Anderson, who rode Boundless, thought the colt would have won the race nine times out of 10. “He must have had 18 ahead of him with two furlongs to go,” Shaw said. ‘‘And then he could not get a run when he was going well enough to take it.”

Shaw is confident Boundless will be able to run over a bit of ground as a three-year-old. He found the colt’s easy win over seven furlongs in the Challenge Stakes reassuring. “He could be better than Cadiz, because I think he will stay better,” Shaw said.

Soundness has had more racing than Cadiz in his first season, but their records invite comparisons. Both won the C.J.C. Champagne Stakes, but Cadiz did not run in the Challenge Stakes. Cadiz had only four starts at two and won three of them. The first was at Wingatui. Then he was taken to ’j.’rentham where he was first and second, both in six-fur-long races. Boundless was twice fourth and looked unlucky in one start at the Wellington autumn meeting in March. A few weeks earlier he ran Magician close at Royal Riccarton, and he more than evened the score by beating Mr H. D. Greenwood’s colt twice at the C.J.C. autumn meeting.

There ware ait least two American offers made for Boundless before he race, and no doubt there will be more now that the colt has shown he is as good as his breeding and looks would suggest. Just what can be done with a high-class sprinter in the United States is shown in the annual statistical review of the “Thoroughbred Record” for 1962. Last year Cadiz won five races and 90,725 dollars. Braga nza won one race and 5500gns, so the Californian owner, Mr V. Graber, must be well pleased with his package deal, which involved little more than 30,000 dollars. Cadiz and Braganza are both by Targui, whose American record for the year, then, was: two winnere, six races. 99.225 dollars: average winning distance, 7.80; average winning purse, 16538 dollars. Key statistics on North American racing last year were:— Total value of purses and stakes in North America, 103,193,219 dollars. Total first money, 64,343,034 dollars. Number of races, 41,711. Average distribution each race, 2474 dollars. Average winning purse. 1543 dollars. Number of winning horses, 18,911. Leading money-winning horse. Never Bend (402.686 dollars). Leading money-winning owner. R. C. Ellsworth (1.154,454 dollars). Leading sire of money winners. Nasrullah (1.092,449 dollars). Yearlings sold at auction. 2234. Total realised from yearlings. 12,529.800 dollars. Average price a yearling, 5609 dollars. Has Five Owners A New Zealand-bred gelding's win helped establish a new record for T. J. Smith at Randwick last Saturday. After Count Radiant w r on the Novice Handicap for the Smith stable, the top Randwick trainer had prepared winners of £100,466 in Sydney tide season. Before toe start of the meet-

ing, Smith needed £645 to top the £ 100,000. Summer Fiesta earned £2lO for a second, Trace Call £lO5 with a third, and Summer Prince £25 with a fourth in the Autumn Handicap. Then Count Radiant’s first prize added £7lO to a formidable total, and the record was achieved.

Count Radiant must get some strong vocal encouragement if all his owners go racing together. He is owned by Messrs N. C. Smith, T. J. Powell, C. H. Swain, F. L. Williams, and P. J. Wail.

Count Radiant was the first of the Santa Rosa Stud draft at the 1961 national sales and changed bands for 1650gns.

His dam is Radiant Praise, which was got by Helios (son of Hyperion) from Regal Praise, winner of the Great Northern St Leger, Great

Northern Oaks and Welcome Stakes and several other races.

There have been a long list of high-class winners from this family. Representative, Serenata, Russian Ballet, Liebestraum, Vigilantia, Red Jester and Demonic have been some ot them. Just to show something of the versatility of the Count Rendered stock. Renascence won the Kenilworth Hurdles at Moonee Valley last Saturday. Renascence, a five-year-old owned and trained by F. W. Hoysted, failed to attract much interest at the 1959 sales when offered on account of Mr J. R. Gillies, at Matamata, and was passed in at 825gns. Renascence has jumping lines on his dam’es side. His dam, Revel Song < Releva - tion —Lady Love) also left Peter Revel, a hurdles winner.

Lady Love, by Hunting Song, traces to Matilda, ancestress of the brilliant

hurdler, Bare Fox, and the successful 'chaser, Bonay. After seeing Hula Dancer win a race as a two-year-old in France last season Rae (Togo) Johnstone, said: “She will never be beaten . . . never." Hula Dancer won all her three races as a two-year-old by tremendous margins and if she has kept her ability intact from two to three years she should be a sensation this season, and could have the English One Thousand Guineas at her mercy. Hula Dancer had her first start m a three-year-old at Maisons-Laffitte earlier this month. ITte race was the Prix Inpudence. of seven furlongs, and Hula Dancer was asked to race on soft ground for the first time. She clearly disliked the ground, but won by five lengths. Bred in America by her owner. Mrs G. Widener, Hula Dancer is by Native Dancer, which was once beaten in 22 starts.