New Stud Book most comprehensive

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 7 (Supplement)

New Stud Book most comprehensive

Volume 19 of the New Zealand trotting Stud Book, by far the most comprehensive undertaken by any breed society in Australia or New Zealand, has been released.

It is expected that this will be the last such volume with a full index, which in this publication fills 139 pages, against 81 in the previous volume, and it contains the names of more than 20,000 horses. The magnitude of the task of compiling the index, with a consequential delay in production, is influencing the thinking of the New Zealand Trotting Conference that in future issues the lead of other breed societies will have to be followed. All registrations will be listed alphabetically, with their breeding, and from this reference it will be possible to trace the full pedigrees of the horses concerned and any other relevant details. The latest volume contains a number of new features, which are expected to be of value to breeders and to students of breeding throughout the world. Statistics have been broken down to an extreme, with a number of fresh and enlightening sections, which will be mentioned in detail later.

This volume contains I details of foaling returns for the breeding seasons of 196768 to 1969-70 inclusive, and details of mares covered to I foal in the 1970-71 season. The old term, “cblonlalj bred," is no longer used, being replaced where applicable by “New Zealand-bred” I or “Australian-bred." i Volume 19 is some 330 i pages larger thah the pre- , vious volume and is close to ) 2000 pages. It lists more ■ than 5000 mares and their ) progeny', against 4000 in the previous issue, and records t show times recorded by ■ mares and their progeny in i New Zealand, and for the first > time, records made in Aus- | tralia where they have rei turned a winning mile rate f of 2min lOsec or faster. AU I registrations made in Australia have been recorded, > which must increase greatly i the value of the Stud Book.

U.S. RECORDS As in Volume 18, American records have been included, and there are some horses credited with time performances in all three countries. Twenty-five horses are shown in the all-time list of two-minute pacers in New Zealand, 12 of which are appearing for the first time. Nineteen New Zealandbred horses racing in the United States recorded two minutes or better up to De-

cember 31, 1969, Arania (1:57) heading the pacers, and Ordeal (1:59 3-5) the only trotter to achieve this feat up to the date mentioned. Five New Zealand-bred horses, headed by Lucky Creed and Robin Dundee, both with 1:59 to their credit, have bettered two minutes in Australia.

The extended pedigrees of all horses to have entered the two-minute list in New Zealand are shown. IMPORTED MARES The list of imported mares has been broken into two sections. The first gives the names and breeding of mares Which have appeared in earlier volumes and their records are unchanged, while the other gives details of mares which have had their breeding records changed since appearing in Volume 18. This latter section includes only six names, one of which, Page Girl,, was omitted from earlier volumes. With the deletion of the title “Colonial bred,’’ there is now a section for Australianbred mares at the stud in this country, 14 of them being listed. There is a substantial section for non-standardbred mares, and there are lists of New Zealand-bred mares which appeared in Volume 17. but do not appear in Volume 18 or 19 as their breeding records have not changed,

and those which appeared in Volume 18, but have been deleted from Volume 19 for a similar reason. Extended pedigrees for 86 imported stallions are listed, and extended pedigrees for 77 New Zealand-bred stallions are shown, plus brief details of many other stallions appearing in Volume 19.

STAKE WINNERS Cardigan Bay, light harness's first millionaire pacer with $1,000,837, tops the leading ail-time stake-winners as at December 31, 1969. Severn teen names appear on this list, but many more would, have made the grade by the end of 1970, and the list will be further extended by performances this year, particularly in the United States.

The influence of racing in the United States on breeding in New Zealand is emphasised by the list of lifetime earnings and the fastest times -of New Zealandbred horses to have raced in the United States up to December 31, 1969. This list contains some 450 names, and when next it is published it should have doubled in size. The section covering pedigree references to leading stake-winners has been continued, as has the section for siring statistics for the seasons under review. In addition there is a break-down of the siring statistics to age

i groups, plus fertility of stallions and details of all live foals produced by horses which covered 10 or more mares in a single season. A number of new statistics concerning the percentage of winners to live foals are certain to create interest. These statistics arranged by Mr D. Doig, of Rakaia, show the number of live foals that stallions have produced, the number of horses which have been registered from those live foals, the number of winners, the over-all percentage of winners to live foals, and the percentage of New Zealand winners to horses which have raced in this country. PERCENTAGES In view of the fact that some stallions have been breeding for longer periods than others, the table has been compiled to show the percentage of winners to live foals bom up to and including the 1964-65 season, and then percentages of foalings in the seasons 1965-66 (three-year-olds) and 1966-67 (two-year-olds) are detailed separately. The first section gives details of stallions still at the stud in New Zealand in 196970, and the other section contains details of prominent stallions that have either died, been exported or withdrawn from service. The second section shows

that U Scott, from 1936 to 1962, sired 878 live foals, 788 of which were registered. Of these 515 won races, giving him a percentage of 59. Light Brigade has 458 individual winners and a percentage of 52 while Dillon Hall had 51, Jack Potts 46, Certissimus 56, Captain Adios 53, Blue Mountain King 51, Deep Adios 50, Gay Reveler 62, Intangible 55, Man O’War 50 and Stonnyway 53. PROGENY OF SIRES

. Statistical information relating to the breeding records 'of progeny from leading sires is also certain to be of interest. The list is started by Adios Guy. He had 37 of his daughters bred from, 22 of them producing winners. One of his sons was used to sire and he left winners. At the end of this list is Wrack, which was credited with 155 mares at the stud, 112 of them producing winners. Fifteen of his sons were use as sires, 12 of them, including two in Australia, sired winners. Volume 19 is being sold at $l6, which is $6 below the cost of production. All breeders wanting the volume will have to pay the full price, the previous system of offsetting stud fees against the price of the Stud Book having had to be stopped because of the huge increase in production costs.