U.S. Trainer Buys Seven Horses

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31077, 4 June 1966, Page 6

U.S. Trainer Buys Seven Horses

Flying Note and Lady Charles have been purchased by American interests and will do their future racing in the United States. These tightly assessed pacers are two of seven horses which have been sold to the New York trainer, R. Shuttleworth. The others are Flying Look, Seay Boy, Maggie Spangler, Free Style and Gold Boa. Flying Note, an aged gelding by Flying Song from Relentless, is a 2min 12sec Class pacer and a New Zealand record holder. He created new figures for a three-year-old at Addington in 1961 when he finished fourth in the Cross Memorial Stakes and paced the mile and five furlongs in Imin 25 l-ssec. Flying Note’s last win was in the Le Lievre Handicap at the New Zealand Cup meeting in 1963. Last season he gained three minor piacings in 10 starts. His only race this season was at Forbury Park in October, Lady Charles, an aged mare by Young Charles from Totem, has managed two fourths from 12 starts this season. Last season she started 19 times for three thirds and a fourth. But she won five races in the 1963-64 season. Lady Charles, like Flying Note, is on a 2min 12sec marie over all distances.

Flying Look, a nine-year-old Flying Song gelding, has won three races, the most recent of his successes being at Gore in December, 1964. Maggie Spangler, a six-year-old Meadow Chief mare, has a 2min 15sec assessment The most recent of her five victories was the Seatoun Handicap at Hutt Park in February, 1964. Seay Boy, a 2min 17sec class pacer, has been a win-

ner this season. This seven-year-otd Garrison Hanover gelding’s third victory came in the Farewell Handicap at Invercargill in January. Free Style and Gold Boa are both three-year-olds. The former, a gelding by Van Dieman, gained his second win in the Rushton Stakes at Wairio the month before last Gold Boa, a Final Say gelding, has some useful piacings on his record but has yet to win his first race.

The Shuttteworth purchases were to have left Christchurch for the United States next Wednesday but the departure date of the aircraft is now indefinite.