KING’S BRIGADE IS PROMISING TROTTER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27043, 30 March 1949, Page 7

KING’S BRIGADE IS PROMISING TROTTER

The New Zealand Trotting Stakes, for three-year-olds, which will be run at Addington on Saturday, has drawn a. field of 10, and King’s Brigade will probably be one of the favourites. A bay gelding by Light Brigade, he was got from Roydon’s Gift, by Great Bingen from Pride, by Arion Guy. Roydon’s Pride is the dam of Certissimus and Desmond’s Pride. King’s Brigade is trained by C. R. Berkett. and has been placed three times in seven starts. Another likely sort engaged is Krakatoa, a bay gelding by Desmond’s Pride from Random, and thus a full brother to Stray Shot and a halfbrother to Vinceremo. Jottings Aerogard has been rehandicapped to 24 yards behind in the Wyndham Juvenile Stakes, to be run on Saturday. Direct Heir is handily placed off the front in the Craven Handicap at Addington on Saturday. The free-legged pacer may be hard to beat if the track is hard. Winners at Last Starts Biddy's Pet, Jacquard and Sandy Ridge, who are acceptors in the second division of the Trial Handicap at Wyndham on Saturday, were all successful at the Roxburgh Trotting Club's meeting last week. Biddy's Pet looks the pick of the trio. May Race Well On the strength of his two gooa performances at the Roxburgh meeting, Kiatoa is likely to come in for solid support in the races for straight-out trotters at Wyndham on Saturday. He has plenty of early speed, and he can he expected to be prominent throughout. Half-brothers The half-brothers Silent Knight and Turco will both race at Addington on Saturday, the former in the Preliminary Handicap and the latter In the A. I. Rattray Handicap. Turco has not raced for some time, and he may need a race or two A two-year-old colt ranking as a half-brother by Dillon Hall to Silent Knight and Turco is being educated by G. S. Smith at Addington. He has been named Dileo. Sister to Good Winner Forearmed, who is an acceptor in' the New Zealand Trotting Stakes, to be run at Addington on Saturday, is a full sister to a good performer in Forewarned. She is by Swordsman from Fair Warning, an American-bred mare who was imported to New Zealand by Mr J. R. McKenzie in 1934. In 1940, 1941 and 1944 Fair Warning left colt foals to Swordsman, but they all died. Her 1946 colt by Swordsman, however, is still living. Forearmed is reported to be a solid trotter, and she may be prominent in Saturday’s race. Success Overdue Indigo, who is engaged in the Express Handicap at Addington on Saturday, has not raced since the Canterbury Park meeting in February. He has not raced with the best of luck this season, and at Forbury Park he was unfortunate enough to lose 43 yards at the start of the Metropolitan Handicap through interference. and then be beaten by a neck by Lady Averil. He will be well suited by tlie small field on Saturday, and if M. C. McTigue can keep him up to the field in the early stages of the race he should he hard to head off. Good Record Gay Piper has been out of a place only once in eight starts this season, inis record being three wins, three seconds and a third, and he has bright prospects of adding to this in the Craven Handicap at Addington on Saturday. A five-vear-old by U. Scott, he is from Festival, by Sonoma Harvester from a Prince Imperial mare, and he is owned and trained by G. McKendry.