TROTTING Light Brigade Top Of Sire’s List

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 5

TROTTING Light Brigade Top Of Sire’s List

After almost four months of the 1966-67 season, Light Brigade has established a lead of about £4OOO on the sires’ list published in the “New Zealand Trotting Calendar.” Light Brigade’s progeny had gained 37 wins and 91 placings worth £24,500 to November 21.

Light Brigade owes his place on the list mainly to the efforts of his trotters, which include Glen Dee, Tronso, Asia Minor, Break Through and Grand Charge. His pacers include Cuddle Doon, Lochgair, Powerful Light, Atanui, Mon Arnie and Loyal Light.

Johnny Globe, sire of the New Zealand Oaks winner, Stylos, is in second place with £20,370, of which £8245 has been won by Lordship. Johnny Globe’s progeny have had 27 wins and 63 placings and include Swartz Pete, Chequer Board, which is expected to make a big contribution to his total later in the season, Epona, Johnny Gee, Direct Globe, Proudly, Inky Boy and John Filou.

Garrison Hanover, with 22 wins and 88 placings worth £17,196, is in third place, his biggest winner being Waitaki Hanover. Other worthwhile contributors to his total include Killadar, Vista Abbey, Co Pilot, Amend, Stewart Hanover, Soldier Gal, Fort Nelson, Dark Sun and Apt. Although he has only a small number of representatives, Hal Tryax has done well to work into fourth position with £15,735, the result of 14 wins and 48 placings. Robin Dundee has been his best winner so far, but Viking Water, Holy Hal, Towser, Hal’s Delight, Bass Strait, Fielder and Full Sovereign have been other good winners. Flying Song, Smokey Hanover and Morris Eden, all of which are now at the stud in Australia, fill the next three placings. Flying Song’s progeny have had 21 wins, and 66 placings for £12,421 15s, while Smokey Hanover’s win-

ners have had 19 wins and 59 placings for £11,362. Morris Eden is a good way back with 15 wins and 59 placings worth £5900. Lordship is the biggest winner so far this season with £8245; followed by Waitaki Hanover, with £4865; Robin Dundee, with £4550; Tronso, with £3045; and Tobias, with £3020. For South Barbuda, Co Pilot, Disneyland, Waltz Away, Winfield Chief, Calm Autumn, Nocatchem and Moonlight Bay are among the horses trained in the Christchurch district entered for the Invercargill Trotting Club’s meeting on December 14 and 17. By Adios Butler Australian Maid attracted great interest when she won at her first start at a gymkhana meeting at Penrith, near Sydney. She is a three-year-old filly by a champion racehorse in Adios Butler from Reminis. She was bred in America to Australian Time. Australian Maid is being given plenty of time to mature by her trainer-driver, L. Hendry. Glenvale Glenvale, a six-year-old gelding by Hal Tryax from Nithdale, will do his future racing' from A. J. Bourne’s Woolston stables. Glenvale was formerly trained at Wyndham by his part-owner, O. J. Kirby. He gained one win last term, beating Soldier Gal and Linkwood Lady on a soft track in the Roslyn Handicap at Forbury Park on February 2.

At Rangiora Chequer Board will probably have his next start in the two-mile £lO5O Rangiora Cup on December 17. The Johnny Globe five-year-old attracted considerable interest when he finished very fast from near the tail of the field at the two furlongs to run Fielder to half a length in the President’s Handicap at Addington Raceway on Saturday. He should not be long gaining his first win for Mr A. H. Carmichael, of Auckland, who paid £lO,OOO for him last month. Change The Greymouth Trotting Club has strenuously opposed the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club racing one or two days before its spring meeting in October. However, the club apparently does not consider the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s summer meeting as opposition. The Canterbury Park club will race at Addington Raceway on the night of January 2, with the Greymouth club running a day meeting on January 3.

Busy Time Nocatchem has probably had more racing than any other horse this season. She was having her seventeenth start for the term when she beat Bright Enterprise in the New Brighton Stakes at Addington Raceway on Saturday night. She has now had three wins and nine placings for £1745 in stakes for her Richmond owner, Mr W. A. Cook. She is trained at Yaldhurst by R. J. Kerr, who has driven her in most of her races this season. Nochatchem is a four-year-old mare by Smokey Hanover from Dilly Dally, the dam also of a Dominion Handicap winner. Annual Report, and the other winners Lucks Way and Sensational. Initiative The Cambridge Trotting Club has shown initiative in framing the programme for its New Year meeting on January 7 and 10. Two flying mile events will be run each night. A stake of £lOOO will be attached to the Flying Mile Free-for-all, which has a limit of 2min 12sec. An additional £lOO will be paid to the winner if it breaks the New Zealand race record of Imin 58 4-sse.c established by Orbiter in this event 12 months ago. A stake of £5OO will be attached to the Three-year-old Stakes, in which an extra £lOO will go to the winner if it breaks the New Zealand race record of 2min 3 4-ssec established by Friendly Tom. Two-year-olds will race for £4OO on the second night, and an extra £lOO will be available to the winner if it breaks the New Zealand race record of 2min 5 l-ssec established by Really Good last autumn. The stake for the McMillan Trotting Free-for-all will be £9OO, and the limit for the race will be 2min 14sec. An additional £lOO will be paid if the winner breaks When’s New Zealand race record of 2min 2 4-ssec.