Logan Dryham dies

Press, 19 December 1985, Page 43

Logan Dryham dies

By

JEFF SCOTT

. The former brilliant two and three-year-old pacer, Logan Dryham, died in Auckland on Tuesday, when he was about to be flown to North America for a season’s racing. “We hadn’t sold him; we had come to an agreement with an American trainer to race him for a season and take it from there,” said Barry Clark, a co-trainer of the Dryham Lea entire in partnership with his father Tom, who raced the horse. “He had gone up to Auckland on Friday and was due to leave on Monday, but the plane was delayed 24 hours. They put him into a paddock as good as gold and he died six hours later from a twisted bowel and peritonitis.’

“The news came as a big shock as he had been in light work before going north and was coming up nicely,” said Clark. While the Clarks have bred two younger brothers and a three-year-old half sister by Noodlum to their former star, Logan Dryham himself will never have any stock gracing the racetracks in future years. The five-year-old stallion had a stud career waved away in the winter when it was decided to give the former speedy youngster another racing campaign, and sadly, no mares were finally mated with the upstanding son of Dryham Lea and Logan Cheval. Logan Dryham only raced 24 times for six wins and five placings for $42,005 in stakes. He failed to come back to top form last season at four after being one of the worst affected by the 1984 John Brandon New Zealand Derby disaster — two fifths being his best in six starts last term.

As a juvenile, Logan Dryham won two of his four starts including a heat of the New Zealand Standardbred Sires Produce Stakes in 2min 36.5 s (2000 m stand), while at three years he won four times including a heat of the Lion Brown Series in 2min 31.4 s (mobile 2000 m), and the final; the Matinee Three-Year-Old Champion-

ship at the cup meeting; and the E.F. Mercer Mile, in 2min 00.5 s over Roydon Glen.

In his three-year-old season he was also third to - Roydon Glen and Vance 1 Glory in the $lOO,OOO Max Harvey Great Northern ■ Pacing Derby and the runner-up to King Alba in-’ the John Brandon Flying Stakes (2000 m on the first night of the New’ Zealand Derby meeting at Addington Raceway.

“He’d be the only horse that ever beat Roydon Glen seven times,” Clark said reliving the horse’s early career, when the two pacers quite often clashed.

Meanwhile, the Clarks’ promising four-year-old trotting mare, Firm Offer, a dashing C 3 winner over 2600 m (stand) in Smin 24.9 s at Addington on Show Day, is set to resume at Ashburton next Thursday.