TROTTING U.S. sire for new stud

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32629, 10 June 1971, Page 8

TROTTING U.S. sire for new stud

Super Dream, by Knight Dream, the sire of Lumber Dream, has been secured by a Christchurchbased company and he will be available to a restricted number of mares fairly late in the coming breeding season.

Soper Dream is to stand at a new stud at West Melton being established by the well-known breeder-trainer, L, D. Ashton. He is at present undergoing a period of quarantine in England and is expected to arrive in Canterbury late in November.

Super Dream, now an 11-year-old, did a limited amount of stud duty in Maine, an area in which there is very little interest in trotting, and he has left winners from his first crop, which are now three-year-olds. A member of a strong siring line family, Super Dream is by Knight Dream, a top sire in the United States and a leading broodmare sire. Last season his daughters produced the winners of $2,120,169, placing him second to Adios ($3,961,846). Daughters of Knight Dream had 343 starters, of which 245 were winners. Adios had 439 starters and 328 winners.

Super Dream had a restricted race career, which was halted by an accident. He took a record of 2min 5 l-ssec and as a two-year-old he won a heat of the 1961 Reading Futurity, beating several good horses, including Gamecock, which stands at a high fee at Hanover Shoe Farm. He has three brothers at the stud. Knight Champ, the winner of $96,587, took a record of 2min 1 l-ssec. He is the sire of a good winner, Champs Knight. Peerless Knight, an unraced horse, is at stud in Indiana and Excel Knight in Ontario. Knight Dream, by Nibble Hanover, the sire of Bachelor Hanover and Van

Hanover, has sired 12 pacers on the two-minute list, and 178 in better than 2min ssec. He sired the winners of more than $500,000 in both 1968 and 1969, while last season his total was just under that marie.

Winning parents Knight Dream took a race record of Imin 59sec, while Super Dream’s dam, Shamrock Sally, took a record of Imin 59 l-ssec and won $99,587.

Shamrock Sajly was got by Dean Hanover (by Dillon Axworthy) which finished third on the list of broodmare sires last year in the United States with $1,947,356. His pedigree includes three

strains of Axworthy blood, one being through Truax, the sire of Tryax, which in turn sired Hal Tryax. His fourth dam, Holyrood Nimble, was the dam of Truax.

Super Dream is from the family which produced the Hambletonian winner Harlan Dean (Imin 58 2-ssec), the winner of $169,379 and a successful sire; Super Wave, the winner of more than $300,000 and a candidate for the present international series at Yonkers Raceway; King Omaha (Imin 59sec), the winner of $164,111; Laurel Hanover (Imin 59Jsec), now a successful sire; Kentucky Belle (Imin 59 2-ssec), Scotch Key (Imin 59 2-ssec) and Merrie Annabelle (2min).