FROM STUD AND STABLE Linred’s Dam Now In Thirtieth Year

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31450, 17 August 1967, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE Linred’s Dam Now In Thirtieth Year

Linred’s brilliant jumping double in the Grand National and Lincoln Steeplechases at Riccarton was within a few days of the official twenty-ninth birthday of his dam, Lady Nuffield.

Lady Nuffield’s deeds as a producer have brought further fame to the family from which also came Great Sensation, Lord Nuffield, and The Joker.

Lady Nuffield is the matriarch of Platform Farm, Greytown, and is still in fairly good health for one of such advanced age. She was 22 when she foaled Linred, a product of a mating with Bed Marlin, and no-one

would have been surprised if her role as a producer had ended there and then. But two years later she foaled to We Don’t Know, and the colt now known in Australia as Secret Field has brought further fame to the family In the last few weeks. A fortnight before Linred won his Grand National,

Secret Field brilliantly won the Drumore Welter at the South Australian Gawier meeting. Secret Field was bought for 550gns as a yearling at Trentham in 1964 by Mr H. E. Neck, of South Australia.

Mr Neck leased the horse to a syndicate of six when he started racing at two years. Secret Field won once In his first season, and at three years he won six races in succession, beating Galilee in one of them. Early this year the syndicate of six cancelled the lease

and the gelding went back to Mr Neck. Only a month before the win at Gawier, Secret Field was bought privately by Mr E. Whitlock Jones, of Oakbank. Secret Field made an immediate show of form for his new owner with a third in a mile welter in Adelaide. Then he ran an unlucky eighth on July 15. He was ridden by J. Stocker when he won at Gawier, and his success assured his trainer, A. G. Smith, of fourth place on the South Australian. trainers* premiership behind C. S. Hayes, H. G. Heagney, and J. B. Cummings.

Hayes made a great start for the new season on August 5 when he saddled five winners at Victoria Park. Four of his five winners were bred in New Zealand, and the fifth was by Hawa, a sire Hayes sold to this country.

Winners for the Hayes stable were the Aucklandowned Clipjoint (Chatsworth 11-Sarina), Bright Blend (Sum-mertime-Brillante), Royal Arragon (Arrogan-Gay Sari) Summer Locke (SummertimeEager Loch) and Manchu Prince (Hawa-China Bride). The runner-up to Manchu Prince was Te Parae, the brilliant daughter of Agricola and Excellency, j