TROTTING Scottish Command to go south

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32422, 8 October 1970, Page 9

TROTTING Scottish Command to go south

“The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON. Scottish Command, a top-class pacer in his day, will do stud duty in Southland during the 1971-72 season. He has been standing in the North Island.

Scottish Command is) to stand at Mr 0. Crooks’s Adios Stud, near Invercargill, for one season only. Scottish Command, which comes from an outstanding family, made his mark both as a sprinter and stayer. He recorded times of 2min 34 3-5 sec, still a Hutt Park record for a mile and a quarter, 3min 24 2-ssec for 13 furlongs, and 4min 13 l-ssec for two miles. Scottish Command built up an enviable record in the colours of Mr R. A. McKenzie, vice-president of the! Wellington Trotting Club. In all he won 16 races. ' His best performance was in p the 1959 Auckland Cup when, h from 60 yards behind, he beat i I a field which included Can-: I cature. Great Reveller, and.i Damian. That year, he was third on the winners’ list be- , hind Caduceus and False:, Step. The most notable of Scot-!, tish Command’s 48 minor!, placings was a third in the ij New Zealand Cup and a sec-!, ond to Cardigan Bay in the New Zealand Free-for-all. Raced in U.S. At the end of his New Zea- 1 land racing Scottish Com- s mand went to the United s States. There he won three i races and a total of $13,344 s m stakes. His fastest mile <

; time there was 2min 4sec. Up to the end of the 1970 ' season, from three crops, • Scottish Command’s stock ■ had won $37,090 for 38 wins and 71 placings. Scottish Command is a son of U Scott and Mary Wootton (by Springfield Globe). Mary Wootton also left Heather Mary, which won nine races and at the stud produced Golden Sands (2min 1 3-ssec). Golden Sands won seven races in New Zealand, including the North Island Oaks, then went on to win nine races in the United States. The top trotter, Highland Flight, a winner at Wanganui last Saturday and successful in 24 races worth more than $37,000 in stakes, also comes from this family. I He is out of Flying Mary, a ; half-sister to Scottish Command. Scottish Command’s second dam, Parisienne, won 16 races and produced La Mignon, the winner of 12 ! races, including the N.Z. Sapling Stakes, and the dam 'of Garcon Roux and Roydon ! Frost. Winners Already Scottish Command has built up an impressive record as a sire. From seven live foals prior to racing in the United States, he sired Scottish Laddie, winner of six including the Great

Northern Derby, Scottish Flight, Loyal Command, and City Command. Last season his four-year-old winners included Scottish Charm, Scottish Dancer, Scottish Folly, Sandal Bay, Mister Averil, Commandaway, Shining Armour and Scotch Penny.

His successful three-year-olds last season included Black Watch, which has won 11 and was unbeaten as a two-year-old, . Bella’s Command and Hundred Pipers. His two-year-olds included Scottish Cheer, a New Zealand record holder, and Scottish Warrior, which also holds a New Zealand record for a two-year-old gelding. Already this season, Scot- 1 tish Command has been represented by five individual winners, among them Hundred Pipers, a winner at Hutt Park and Wanganui, and Shining Armour, which won a double at the Wanganui meeting.