TROTTING Bonnie Frost To Have Light Season

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32350, 16 July 1970, Page 5

TROTTING Bonnie Frost To Have Light Season

The “horse of the year,” Bonnie Frost, is unlikely to do much racing in New Zealand before the InterDominion Championship series at Addington Raceway next February, according to her part-owner and trainer, G. B. Noble.

Bonnie Frost and her stablemates, Garson Roux and Roy d o n Dream, are at present in Wellington awaiting; transport south.

Bonnie Frost is to be kept in light work until about the middle of September, after which it is intended to spell het- for a month. “I’ve got no definite plans for her other than the Inter-Dominion Championships,” said Noble yesterday. She might be given a race about the end of the New Zealand Cup meeting, but it is more likely that she will not resume racing until December.

Bonnie Frost has not yet been reassessed as a result of her wins in Australia, but it is thought likely that she will be placed on 2min Usee for a distance, and on a particularly tight sprint mark, as most of her wins were over less than 12 furlongs. Even if she does qualify for the Auckland Cup in December, Noble is at this stage undecided about starting her there, and it is possible she will be restricted to invitation racing until the championships. Bonnie Frost has been withdrawn from salq, according to Noble. "She was almost sold for about 570.000, but negotiations broke down and she is now off the market” Garcon Roux is ready to resume work as soon as he arrives back in Christchurch. “He was so unlucky in Australia,” said Noble, “as he met trouble whenever he started." Garcon Roux’s Wellington owner, Mr R. A. McKenzie, Is keen that Garcon Roux contest the New Zealand Cup in November, and with that race in view. Noble hopes that he will be ready to resume racing, in the Ashburton Flying Stakes on October 3. p

In the meantime Noble has a big team of young horses

jin work, including Valencia, Rain Again, Noble Hanover I and Heatherloch. As well, he has five rising two-year-olds, the majority of which are by the Roydon Lodge Stud sire, Scottish Hanover. For U.S.

; Sandy Mac, Young Forward, 1 Great Faith, and Robert Charles have been bought on ’ behalf of American interests ! and they are to leave today • for their new owners. They • are being accompanied by the ! Yaldhurst trainer, P. K. ’ Ryder, who acted as agent in ’ the sales. t To Start Stylish Major will repre- ’ sent New Zealand tn the : $125,000 International Trot to be run at Roosevelt Raceway, ' New York, on Sunday (New Zealand times). Stylish Major was a recent winner at Monticello where he recorded 2min 5 2-ssec in a race carrying a stake of $4OOO. Action Likely The New Zealand Trotting Conference is expected to take action against the starter at the Ashburton Trotting Club’s winter meeting (Mr R. Carter), for a breach of the Rules of Trotting. Mr Carter was the partbreeder of Sam Carter, first past the post in the New Zealand Trotting Stakes on May 30. A prize of $250 goes to the breeder of the winner of the race. Under the rules, no person having a direct or in- ' direct interest in a horse, can : officiate at a meeting. Feature Races The Melbourne Trotting i Control Board will run a I feature race at every meeting next season, which will start I in October. Two new rich I feature events will be intro-; iduced. The first will be the < ; Melbourne Pacing Cup to be I irun in November. It will be I

worth $lB,OOO, of which $BOOO will be set aside for heats. The final will carry a stake of $BOOO, and $2OOO will be shared equally by the finalists.

In March the board will run Australia’s richest two-year-old race with stakes amounting ■to $14,000. The race will be sponsored by Mr J. Jones, of Glenfern : Heats will be run on March 13, with tile final a week later. For Addington Chequer Board and True Averil are both back in solid work in preparation for the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s national meeting next month at Addington Raceway. Both have done well since last they raced, particularly True Averil, which appears to have built up considerably. True Averil’s trainer, B. J. Anderson, has not decided when he will resume racing, but he thinks he will be reserved for the second night of the meeting. J. A. Carmichael Intends starting Chequer Board in both invitation races at the meeting as the beginning of his preparation for another attempt on the New Zealand Cup, a race in which he was promoted to -third last November.