WORTHY QUEEN

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 253, 23 July 1935, Page 15

WORTHY QUEEN

Champion Trotter Retiring

The. champion trotter of New ZealaiK ami Australia, Worthy Queen, 2.3 3-5 has developed soreness and rather tlun break her down her trainer and lessee, J S. Shaw, has decided to retire her from the race track, and she will be returnee to her owner in the North Island lot breeding purposes.

Worthy Queen has proved to be the greatest trotter up to a mile and a half in this country. In addition to her wonderful achievement of trotting a mile against a high wind at Addington last season in 2.3 3-5, she has been privately timed to cover a mile and a half in a race, and from a standing start, in 3.11 1-5. In addition to her great speed, she is a perfect mare from every aspect, and for some time she has been one of the favourites at Addington. Worthy Queen has earned the highest honours on the race track, and up to a mile and a half she has no peers. Since joining J. S. Shaw's establishment she has competed in 27 races for £lO7O in stakes, and Shaw trained and drove her in her record-making event. Site did all her early racing in the colours of the late Mr. J. R. Corrigan, for whom she won nine races in 17 starts. During Shaw's term she was first home on five occasions. In 44 starts her record is 14 firsts, four seconds and two thirds, and she has won £1953 in prizemoney.

She is a_young mare, having been foaled in 1927. She was bred by the late Mr. J. R. Corrigan at Hawera, and is by Worthy Bingen (a brother to Great Bingen and Peter Bingen), while the dam of Worthy Queen was Queen Chimes, who won flic Champion Stakes at Addington in 1918 and Taranaki Futurity Stakes in tiie same year. Queen Chimes is by Coldstream Bells, by Abbey Bells (imp.). The grand-dam of Worthy Queen is Vanquish, who was a daughter of Vaneleve, and Victress, who was sired by Abbotsford.