First-Season Successes

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32067, 15 August 1969, Page 9

First-Season Successes

The spectacular suc- ■ cess of the first crop of ; foals sired by Bachelor : Hanover was a feature : of the racing scene last : season. Bachelor Hanover's two- . year-olds won SIB,OSS, from i 10 wins and 18 placings. ; It is difficult to recall any ; other first-season sire mak- : ing such an impact His progeny are in the main I well mannered and they have proved outstanding ; over all distances and on all ; types of tracks. I Trainers have found most ; of them fairly easy to gait ; and train, and on the race track they have proved superior to most in their age ; group. J Not only have colts and

geldings by Bachelor HanK.“SSWBffK of them, Glamour, won the Sapling Stakes. three wln » »nd won $4610 in stakes, making her winner sired by Bachelor Hanover last season. Bravine, another filly, was second on the list with $3505, the result of three wins and seven placings, while Walk Alone won 82810, Rossini $1990, Karu Roa $1895, and Boy Friend $lO9O. His other winner was First Batch, which won $lB5 from two placings. Bachelor Hanover's progeny made a splendid start for this season when the Oamaru-owned and trained Boy Friend won the Waitaki

Hanover Stakes at the Kurow meeting tost Saturday, The runner-up was Bachelor Boy, which was having his first start at a totalisator meeting. A number of the progeny of Bachelor Hanover, including Boy Friend, Bachelor Boy and Rossini, will contest the $l5OO Canterbury Stakes at Addington Raceway on the second day of the national meeting. Bonnie Frost, which gained four wins and five placings in New Zealand, contributed $5390 of the $9885 won by two year-olds sired by Thurber Frost, which died last September. Frost Report (£2530) and Vi Direct ($895) were other winners sired by Thurber Frost, his place-getters being Bedevilled, Chiffonette, David Frost, Noble Frost. Sure Frost and Wag. In third place was the Hal Tryax horse, Lucky Tryax, the sire of the season’s champion, Sam Tryax, which won all of the $9lOO credited to him. Sam Tryax won eight races and was unplaced only in the Forbury Futurity Stakes, a race in which his driver, D.C. Watts, was tossed from the sulky at the start Lucky Tryax was barely patronised at the stud and a little more than 12 months ago he was sold at little more than a hack price to Australia. Two New Zealand-bred sires, Scottish Command

and Johnny Globe, filled the . next two placings as sires of two-year-olds last season. Scottish Command, with Black Watch as his biggest winner with $5655 in stakes, was credited with $7250 from six wins and five ptacings and Johnny Globe’s progeny won $4235 tn stakes from four wins and nine placings, Sydney James being his biggest winner with $lB9O, just ahead of Berkleigh, with $l5OO. Garrison Hanover, which has not gained fame as the sire of two-year-old winners, was credited with $l9BO, Direct Return being his only winner.