TROTTING Snow Globe Recovered From Wind Operation

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30478, 27 June 1964, Page 7

TROTTING Snow Globe Recovered From Wind Operation

The smart trotter, Snow Globe, has made a good recovery from an operation for a wind affliction. The operation was performed about three weeks ago.

Snow Globe is still spelling at present but her Templeton trainer, D. G. Nyhan, hopes to have the Otago-owned Johnny Globe mare back in work soon and ready for racing early next season.

Snow Globe was not the stable’s best winner this season yet her record was sound. She gained one win and a number of placings for the successful Wingatui trainer. H. A. Anderton, by whom she is raced. Those efforts brought in £725 in stakes. But for her affliction Snow Globe’s record, no doubt, would have been a lot better for she is a very good frontrunner which has a grand style of trotting. If her operation has proved a success —and everything at present suggests that it has —she could be a much bigger winner in the season ahead. If everything goes well with Snow Globe within the next month she will probably be one of a very small team to represent the Nyhan stable at the National meeting in August. A Family Affair As far as the rest of the team is concerned it is strictly a family affair. Snow Globe is the only horse in the stable which is trained for an owner outside the Nyhan family.

The other horses in work being prepared for spring racing are Lordship, Trade Talk, Johnny Supreme, Caught Napping and Stella Globe.

Lordship, which is raced by Mrs D. G. Nyhan, is the Dominion’s most tightly assessed pacer at present and the “star” of the team.

Lordship took longer than usual this season to strike his top form. But for a time he was competing under difficulties for he was troubled by splints. Since these were treated they have caused no further bother.

Lordship, whose record of wins this season include an Easter Cup heat and the Easter Cup Final, has wintered particularly well. Since he was brought back into work he has not been required to do anything serious but his training schedule will be stepped up next month.

Lordship’s campaign at the National meeting will include the races in which invitation conditions apply. It was also . hoped that Johnny Supreme would have been racing in August, but the Addington classes do not cater for him. This Johnny Globe entire, which is raced by his trainer, earned a 2min 17sec class rating for winning three races this season. He might have done better but for being troubled by corns. No Definite Plans There are no definite spring plans for Trade Talk, Caught Napping or Stella Globe, a recent addition to the team. The latter, a four-year-old .Johnny Globe mare, was raced on lease by the Akaroa owner-trainer, D. J. Campbell, this season. .

In addition to working the horses in training Nyhan and his sons, Dennis and Barry,

are busily engaged preparing a number of young horses for racing careers. At present they are handling five two-year-oids and the same number of yearlings. Johnny Globe is the sire of three of the two-year-olds and four of the yearlings. One of his daughters which has already shown much promise in trials is an unnamed two-year-old out of the good race-mare Gough’s Pride. This youngster and two geldings, one a threequarter brother to Ricochet, his dam is Loyal Rita, and the other, a son of Morano

and Gay Sheila,. have been educated to pace. The other two-year-olds, both fillies, are natural trotters. One is out of Dresden Lady, a half-sister, by Light Brigade, the Lordship’s dam, and the ether is a daughter of Light Brigade and Circlette. The yearlings include a nuggetty type of colt out of Golden Lady and another from Cirdette; two geldings, one out of Luciana, and the other from Gay Time and a filly by Morano, from Gay Sheila.