TROTTING Glen Miller Shows Great Promise

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31152, 31 August 1966, Page 5

TROTTING Glen Miller Shows Great Promise

"The Press” Special Service

AUCKLAND.

Glen Miller, a colt by Morris Eden from Scottish Reel, has looked the best of the two-year-olds at parades at Alexandra Park in recent weeks. He was highly impressive at a recent matinee meeting when he ran right away from his rivals.

The greatly-increased interest of Auckland clubs in races for two-year-olds has met with a ready response from owners and trainers, with probably more two-year-olds than ever in work.

In marked contrast to last season, when the first juvenile race was not held until March, two-year-old racing will begin with a £4OO event at the Morrinsville meeting at Cambridge on September 27. The Te Awamutu club will hold a race worth £250 on October 15. The distance of both races is one mile. The Cambridge race will be started with the mobile barrier. Several other clubs have indicated that they may hold races for two-year-olds well before Christmas. The Rotorua and Bay of Plenty clubs will run feature juvenile races in the latter half of the season. Strong Run

Glen Miller is a certain starter at both Cambridge and Te Awamutu, according to his owner, Mr M. T. Willis, of Auckland. “My main mission, though, is the Bay of Plenty Juvenile Stakes at Tauranga in January,” Mr Willis said. “After that, as long as he looks good enough, Glen Mil-

ler will be taken to Sydney for the £3OOO Futurity Stakes at Harold Park.”

Glen Miller gives every indication of developing into a very smart young pacer. Without being pushed, he paced the last half-mile at a recent matinee in Imin 4 4-ssec—-fast for a two-year-old at this stage of the season. Well Related It is hardly surprising that he has developed quickly. He is a half-brother to the fine mare. Gay Reel. Now in the United States, Gay Reel (by Gay Reveler) was formerly owned by Mr Willis. She was third in the Great Northern Stakes in one of her two races as a two-year-old and gained five wins at three.

Considerable interest has been taken in a colt by Garrison Hanover from Sandra

Kay, one of the top-priced lots at the yearling sales at Addington. Owned by Mr H. Baker and trained by his son, W. Baker, at Mangere, the colt shaped attractively in finishing second to Glen Miller.

He is bred to be good, being a half-brother to Holy Smoke, a brilliant pacer a few years ago, and the winners Young Lad and Lusty Lad. A filly by Hi Lo’s Forbes from Petite Direct has finished third in each of the two parades held recently. She is owned by Mr W. Hosking, of Waiuku, and is trained at Pukekohe by J. K. Hughes. Petite Direct has produced the winners Billy Again, Golden Ego, Pettane, Avalon Direct and Petite Morris. A smart pacer herself, Petite Direct is by Peter Bingen from Loyal Direct, the dam also of the great pacer Single Direct. Other youngsters which have shaped promisingly include a colt by Nephew Hal from Summer Day, trained by M. McQuibban at Morrinsville, and a colt by Hi Lo’s Forbes from Fairfield, trained by N. J. Taylor at East Tamaki.