£10,000 WON IN STAKES

Southland Times, Issue 23852, 24 June 1939, Page 10

£10,000 WON IN STAKES

C. S. DONALD’S GOOD SEASON INTERESTING PEDIGREE OF KING’S PLAY Rocks Ahead has been kept in work with a view to racing at Addington in August. An Old Timer Wallace Jim., a useful performer on trotting tracks 25 years ago, has died at the age of 31. In the Money With 11 horses M. C. McTigue has been placed in 62 races this season. He has won 29, been 18 times second and 15 times third. On the List

The pacer Royal Flush has been placed on the schooling list. In future, Red Frontier is to be allowed to race only on left-handed courses. Action Endorsed

The New Zealand Trotting Association has endorsed the action of the Invercargill Trotting Club in dismissing the protest of P. P. McKay against the winning stake for the Invercargill Harness Trot at the winter meeting of the Southland Racing Club being awarded to Safe. Voyage. C. S. Donald’s Good Year Eleven out of 21 horses which have won over £lO,OOO this season from C. S. Donald’s stable are by Jack Potts. last year the Belfast team accumulated a total of £9BOO. Plutus has been

the principal contributor with £2260, and in two seasons this pacer has won £5145. Altogether the Donald stable has won 41 races since August 1. Belated Information At the Forbury Park Winter meeting a protest was lodged against Privateer on the ground of alleged inconsistent running as compared with form displayed at the Oamaru meeting, held a few days previously. The protest was dismissed, but when official information was requested in connection with the matter it could not be obtained. Now at this belated period, over a month later, It is discovered that the alleged inconsistent form was due to a burst tyre at Oamaru, comments “Sen-' tinel.” Surely such information could have been supplied at the Forbury Park meeting, and not withheld until about six weeks later at a meeting of the Trotting Association. King’s Play King’s Play, leading winner in New Zealand for the closing season, boasts a maternal line of exceptional interest. According to the New Zealand Stud Book King’s Play was sired by Blue Mountain King but other returns are indefinite where his sire is named as either Blue Mountain King or Peter Bingen (a brother to Great Bingen). Buz Buz, the dam of King’s Play, took a two-mile record of 4min 37 2-ssec. She was got by Charming Bells from Springheel, the dam of Globe Derby 2.8 1-5 (leading sire in Australia for some years and which line has produced many champions). Springheel was by Globe from Fidget, by Vancleve. Buz Buz was bred in New South Wales in 1915. Statistics Two Auckland-owned pacers, King’s Play and Ironside, take a prominent place among the best stake earners this season, the former securing £2780 and Ironside £2lBO. The Canterbury horse Blair Athol earned £3400. King’s Play won the Easter Handicap and President’s Handicap at the Addington April carnival, and is likely to play his role well in the next New" Zealand Trotting Cup. Ironside won the National Handicap for F. J. Smith, beating Morello who was in receipt of 12 yards. Later, in J. Fraser’s hands, he won the Ashburton and Dunedin, Trotting Cups. Blair Athol in 13 starts registered four wins and six placings. After the New Zealand Cup meeting he went into the stable of R. J. Humphreys, and in six races he won four and was placed in the others. Blair Athol’s chief successes were the Wellington Gold Trotting Cup, Dominion Handicap, and Canterbury Handicap. Morello secured £2145, for three wins and six places, his most notable victory being in the New Zealand Trotting Cup. He was second in the Dunedin Cup and won the Flying Handicap in 2min 40 4-ssec. Plutus won three races, and with place money, his total was £2llO. He scored a sensational win in the Ollivier Handicap. He won the New Brighton Free-for-All and a similar event at , the Addington Easter fixture. Colonel Grattan, the most improved pacer of the season, and who missed a place only three times in 15 starts, won £2OOO. At the Auckland Christmas meeting he gave a demonstration of his rare speed in running second in the Champion Handicap and scoring in the Premier Handicap. He took a placed record of 3min 12 l-ssec at Ashburton. Navy Blue, who registered five’firsts and four places for M. Stewart, collected £1995, and is the biggest winner of the season among the mares. Her chief win was in the Auckland Trotting Cup. Marsceres won six races for £1845. He put up a phenomenal record at the August carnival, starting five times for four wins and a second. The Tasmanian horse Logan Derby during his spring visit collected £1795. He started seven times for three firsts, two seconds and two thirds, and he won the Free-for-All in 2min 39 2-ssec. Fine Art, who won seven races and took several placings, earned £1750. At Addington recently he won in 3min 12 l-ssec. A mare who has taken high rank is Lightning Lady and with six wins and six seconds her earnings reached £lBOO. She won at all distances. Other good winners ' were: Uenuku £1595, Sandusky £l5OO, Icevus £1465, Parjsienne £1350, Gallant Knight £1320, Kenworthy £1315, Gentleman Joe £1125, Peggotty £llOO, Aidershot £1075, Cantata £1025 and Lamont £lOO5.