CHAMPION FOR STUD

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 6

CHAMPION FOR STUD

WORTHY QUEEN RETIRED

The champion trotter of New Zealand and Australia, Worthy Queen, 2min 3 3-ssec, has developed soreness, and rather than break her down, her trainer and lessee, J. S. Shaw, has decided to retire her from the race track,' and she will be returned to her owner in the North Island for 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 Acldington last s:eason in 2rnin 3 3-ssec, she has been privately timed to cover a mile and a half in.a race, and from a standing start, in 3min II l-ssec. 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. She has earned the highest honours on the race track, and up to a mile and a half she has no. peers.

Since joining JY S. Shaw's establishment, Worthy Queen has competed in 27; races for £1070 in stakes, and Shaw trained and drove her in her record-making event. She 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). Her dam was Queen Chimes, who won the Champion Stakes at Addington in 1918 and Taranaki Futurity Stakes in the same year. Queen Chimes is by Coldstream Bells, by .Abbey Bells (imp.). The grandam 'of Worthy Queen is Vanquish, who was a daughter of Vemcleve, and Victress, who j was sired by Abbotsford. J