OBITUARY Mr S. V. Todd

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32707, 9 September 1971, Page 9

OBITUARY Mr S. V. Todd

"The Press" Special Service INVERCARGILL. A well known New Zeatrotting personality, and one 6f Southland’s most successful trainers in an earlier decade, Sydney Victor Todd, died at Invercargill at the week-end. He was 69. He was well known in business at Invercargill, and as a country hotel keeper at Oreti and Mossburn, but it was probably as a trotting trainer and owner and a studmaster that he was most widely known.

Some 40 years ago he trained a big team of horses at Invercargill and won practically every race of any importance on the Southland calendar and frequently made successful campaigns to Otago and Canterbury. Slump, Sandown, Trusty Child, Oakland, Elation, Eighteen Carat, and Perproof were among the many early winners he trained and drove.

After World War 11. Mr Todd was one of a partnership which established the Red Band Lodge Stud adjoining the Southland racecourse and stood the triple New Zealand Cup winner Indianapolis there. Among the winners he bred at Red Band Lodge was Moccasin, which later became the dam of the top trotters, Stylish Major ana Le Chant.