PACERS RETIRED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 13

PACERS RETIRED

BONNY AZURE FOR STUD

(By "Ariki Toa,")

The Addington trainer I/, O. Thomas has decided to retire two members of his team in Glenrossie and Bonny Azure, and it is probable that the last of them has been seen on the race track. . While it is a long time since Bonny Azure raced anywhere near her best standard, at the top of her career she was outstanding and regarded as the best of her sex until supplanted by Parisienne. In recent months Bonny Azure has been difficult to train owing to her pulling habits, and she was finding it practically impossible to compete successfully against the younger brigade. It is understood that she will now be retired to the stud. She is an eight-year-old chestnut mare bred by Mr. L. J. Brake, '.pi' Whangarei, and is by Blue Mountain King from Bonnie Bingen, the dam of Sandusky. Bonnie Bingen was a par-i ticularly well-bred mare ,by Great Bingen from Muriel Dillon, thus being a half-sister to Louisiana, Lee Bingen, Dilworth, and Muriel Bingen. The line is an imported one and traces back to the celebrated American stallion Speculation. When Glenrossie first commenced racing he had a tendency to stand on the mark, but he possessed the speed and stamina to make this a minor handicap in the slower classes, and he quickly won his way into the best company. He improved in this respect with experience, and at the peak of his form he had few superiors over any distance. In the past two seasons he has been let out considerably in the assessments without being capable of competing successfully, and he appeared to have lost that stamina, which was a feature of his early racing. Glenrossie is a thirteen-year-old gelding by\ Matchlight from Alice Dillon, a half-sister to Pakoti (2min 15 2-ssec), Kohara (4min 21sec), Tumatukuru (3min 24 3-ssec), and Rawhitiroa (3min 20 2-ssec). All are out of the Rothschild mare Bright Alice, who. goes back in blood to General Lincoln*