Training Achievements

Southland Times, Issue 24592, 14 November 1941, Page 9

Training Achievements

B. Burgess was not the first trainer to have the first and second horse in the New Zealand Cup. J. W. Lowe had a similar record in 1917, when Menelaus beat Johnny Walker, the pair being owned in partnership by Messrs V. and E. Riddiford. The two geldings were both by Martian, whose progeny filled all the places, as Snub was third. Martian had a wonderful record in the New Zealand Cup, with six winners (including a dead-heat) in eight years. Win and Place Tickets The system of selling win and place tickets at the one window will, it is understood, be introduced at the Southland meeting on November 22. The pay-out of dividends on win and place tickets will also be made at the one window. Inquiry “N. 8. (Invercargill): Ferry Post was scratched for the New Zealand Trotting Cup at 11.50 a.m, on Monday.

Derby Winner

Battledress, winner of the New Zealand Derby, is the first horse by Posterity to win the classic. He was bred by Mr G. M. Currie, who raced _ the dam Midinette, winner of the Wellington Racing Club’s Pacific Handicap, Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes, and Feilding Stakes. Midinette is by Limond from Motley by Absurd from Pennon by Coriander from Eulogy. Battledress was purchased as a yearling at Trentham for 100 guineas by his present trainer, O. Cox, of Hawera, for Mr A. J. Mack, of the same district.