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RACING HISTORY STARTERS & STARTING

FAMOUS FLYING MILE RACES

There have been fairly regular mile races from a flying start almost from the inception of trotting in the Dominion. The Wildwood v Prince Imperial, and Ribbonwood v Fritz matches long since became history to most living light-harness enthusiasts.

Not so the sensational Free-For-All at the NZ Cup meeting of 1924. In that flying start mile race Acron, in beating Realm by a length, with Logan Chief two lengths back, registered 2:03 3/5, which shattered the existing mile record against time of 2:04 1/5, held by Happy Voyage. In that free-for-all the minor placefillers clocked 2:03 4/5 and 2:04 2/5 respectively.

Another memorable flying mile, many years later, was the match between the champion mare Haughty, and the 'scorched earth' entire, Gold Bar, at an Addington matinee meeting in 1943 - the winner was Haughty, narrowly, in the brilliant time of 2:00 2/5 which stands as the match race record (between two horses) to this day.

Tactician became the first horse in the Southern Hemisphere to fracture two minutes in a race when he won the flying mile Rattary Stakes at the NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club's Easter meeting in 1957. His time was 1:59 4/5, which stood as the NZ race record for many a day. Only a nose separated Tactician and False Step, who went 2:00, third was Local Light in 2:00 1/5, and fourth Merval in 2:00 3/5. It was a wonderful contest.

Up till then the starts of these races were on a moving-up basis 'in the open' and one of the most capable officials in this capacity was Mr A J Hastings. The mobile barrier was still a long way off.

Lordship won a mobile mile race at a Northland TC meeting at Alexandra Park in 1967 in 1:58 2/5, which is the existing NZ record. He won by five lengths from Tobias(1:59 4/5) and Elegant Hanover(2:00). Another searing mobile mile at Addington of recent vintage was the New Year Free-For-All at the Canterbury Park meeting in January, 1970. The winner was True Averil, by four lengths, in 1:58 4/5. The second horse, Spry, registered 1:59 2/5, and Stella Frost third in 1:59 3/5.

The trotters too, have put up some excellent times in flying mile races. In 1969 Stylish Major won one of these events in 2:02 2/5, which was a new record for this type of contest; and the following year Johnny Gee lowered the record to 2:01 1/5 in winning the Stewards' Trotting Free-For-All at the Canterbury Park New Year meeting.

Credit: Óldtimer' writing in NZ Trotting Calendar 1Dec71

RACING HISTORY PEOPLE

JACK WALSH

The death in Gore last week of Jack Walsh, aged 77, had me digging into the archives for a few words I penned on this gentleman in 1967. I hope you enjoy the reminiscience.

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Walsh, who trained the champion mare, Robin Dundee, in the twilight of his career, was the leading Southland driver and trainer on numerous occasions. He rode or drove close on 400 winners and as a trainer, won more than 300 races.

Walsh was born in Nightcaps and his first job was in a grocer's shop there. He was quite content with the job, but, he recalled, "the owner asked me to manage the place, so I left." It was also at Nightcaps in 1917 that Walsh had his first introduction to trotting. A Nightcaps butcher, Mr J H Reed, asked Walsh to ride a pacer called Gladiola, whom he owned and trained. Although he had ridden in gentlemen riders' at galloping meetings, Walsh told him that he had no idea how to sit on a pacing horse in harness and he thought he would be certain to come down.

Mr Reed had greater faith in Walsh, and asked him to ride Gladiola in saddle events at the 1917 Forbury Park winter meeting. Walsh applied to Christchurch for his horseman's licence, but this had not arrived on the morning of the meeting. A hurried phone call to Christchurch confirmed that the licence had been granted and Walsh took the mount on Gladiola. Gladiola was beaten a head by Nihilist, but came out to on the second day to win the two-mile Dunedin Handicap. A 3-year-old filly, she gave away starts of 60 yards and won by two lengths.

From then on Walsh never looked back. He returned to Gore in 1926 and worked with trotting trainer J R McMurray for 12 months. Then as private trainer to Mr F Wallis, he prepared such good winners as Sea Hawk, Ding Dong Bell, Nelson Elwyn and Red Anthony. Later as a public trainer Walsh trained such winners as Kissing Cup, Heather Dillon, Pacemaker, Gildirect, Meg Mundy, Aspasia, Lauder Lady, Dame Sybil, Mooloo, Navigate, Cabra who won the Dominion Handicap, and Ley's Pride.

Walsh's best training tally was 18 wins in the 1956-7 season when he also drove 16 winners. Walsh's services as a horseman, were in keen demand and between 1930 and 1940 he rode or drove 121 winners. Walsh maintained the best horse he rode in saddle was Rocks Ahead, who holds the track record of 2:09 2-5 set at Forbury Park in 1936. Walsh developed Robin Dundee into the best pacing mare in Australia and NZ in the 1960s when she took a record of 1:59 at Harold Park and won more than $100,000.

Credit: Taylor Strong writing in NZ Trotting Calendar 4Aug71

RACING HISTORY PEOPLE

DRIVERS COMPULSORY RETIREMENT

Harness marketing gurus would describe it now as the quaddie from hell. At the end of the 1970-71 season when Jack Litten, Doug Watts, Bob Young and Bll Doyle "four horsemen of the apocalypse" in their era were invited by the authorities to hand in their driving licences having reached 65 - an invitation it was impossible to decline. For many it was almost the harness equivalent of the Buddy Holly plane crash the "day the music died." Three years later when Maurice Holmes had to follow suit, it was.

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JACK LITTEN -
was almost an "overnight sensation" for the times, having risen from relative obscurity just before the Second World War with horses like Suspanse and Firewater after having to sell his best star Royal Romance, to Vic Alborn just as she struck her best form. He was able to buy her back later to breed from. Within a decade the battler was a leader in his profession.

His famous training and breeding deeds, especially with young horses, was partly formed by his early association with Bella Button, then of Brooklyn Lodge in New Brighton, who while never officially licenced in either code won many races driving her trotters and produced outstanding gallopers at Riccarton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Something of a phenomenon, Bella was especially skilled with young horses and the Little Rive'r-born Litten learned his lessons well.

Relative to scale, few have matched his achievements with youngsters in the generations since. But he was an all round champion producing Our Roger, a horse with a famously low heart score, to win a NZ Cup - though he would have dearly loved the "Mighty Atom", the champion Caduceus, to have shared that honour which he actually should have won that day.

On his retirement Jack rated Caduceus setting a 2000m record at Addington in 2:31.8 (it stood for a generation) as his biggest thrill though the 1956 Inter-Dominion Final when he took over the driving himself and won before a crowd we will never see at an ID final again must have been magic.

Royal Romance's daughter, Royal Triumph, would later produce Junior Royal. A granddaughter produced Royal Mile who set a 2-year-old Australasian trotting record for Litten at Addington in July of 1954 in a special time trial. A keen student of breeding "JD" also stood the thoroughbred stallion Aristoi, a brother to world champion Sir Ivor (sire of Sir Tristram).

The horse which established him in classic racing was Fallacy who was at 8/1 first up at three at Ashburton in the spring but paid £46 at his second start and then won the Riccarton Stakes and the NZ Derby. Only the 4-year-old Johnny Globe beat him at that Cup Meeting. His unexpected success at stud was notable. His granddam, Escapade had been an outstanding trotter in the 1920's and her dam (Country Belle) won the NZ Cup.

Like many of his era getting trapped in the field with the money on was a cardinal sin, Jack Litten was never a "pretty" driver (Cecil Devine, his nemesis, was much the same, as was Maurice McTigue) but when the pennies were down their horses could do that little bit more. No stylist, Jack used outside drivers more than most, further proof of his astute thinking. Once established "Litt" seemed to have a never ending string of genuinely outstanding horses.

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BOB YOUNG -
was a quiet man who loved gardening; highly respected especially within the game but low key and he peferred it that way. He was especially a master with trotting horses. Unusually Young preceded his father Jimmy in emigrating from Scotland after Roydon Lodge trainer Bobby Dunn offered him a position in the late 1920's. His father arrived a few years later and set up first at Addington and then at the Spreydon terminus with a big team.

Jimmy Young was soon a leading trainer, famous for his colourful use of four letter words. Don Nyhan used to recall the string of well intentioned invective Young considered normal speech after Johnny Globe had gone close to two minutes on grass the message being the driver should have "tried harder".

Rather oddly Bob named Single Task as the best trotter he drove, one of his three Rowe Cup winners. He also drove the first two winners of the Inter-Dominion Trotting Championships. He had his first NZ Cup drive in 1932 and his last in 1967. He was largely a free lancer usually driving second stringers for big stables in major races or for owner-trainers who loved his "there is another day" style. He was hugely popular with punters because of his outstanding strike rate. Avante was the last big name pacer he trained.

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came from South Canterbury where he went to school with Richard Brosnan's father, Jack. He was first a champion apprentice jockey in Wanganui also riding in Australia as a teenager in 1927.

After he won seven of the first eight saddle trots he competed in, Watts turned to harness driving with Jock Henderson at Oamaru. Few have been better at it. He won the NZ Cup with Our Roger(1955) and an Inter-Dominion final on Massacre(1961) both almost entirely due to the driver rather than the horse. He was largely with Vic Leeming at Prebbleton and rarely held a training licence though he raced fine pacers of his own like Valour and Historic.

Watts was a great "money" driver, cool under pressure and adept at finding the short way home. He is still famous for driving seven winners on an eight race card at Reefton in 1954, a feat never bettered. He recalled he only had one engagement when he arrived at the meeting. His longest dividend was over £4 and his shortest £2, three of his drives winning twice.

Doug was good at keeping his own counsel and once he and Leeming had to be escorted off Addington by the police well after the last when a loud demonstration by hundreds calling for their blood over a form reversal was only inflamed the longer Watts waited it out in the driver's room. Ironically, in later years Watts was an astute patrol steward at the course.

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BILL DOYLE-
is generally regarded as the founder of a famous trotting dynasty but in fact he inherited much from his father, also W J Doyle who was a master of many trades. He stood thoroughbred, trotting and draught stallions at stud, played a major role in the founding of the Ellesmere Trotting Club; ran the Doyleston pub and a catering business, raced, trained and drove top horses and even gave musical recitals at local functions.

He died when his son was just 20 though both Bill Jnr who owned a Grand National Steeplechase winner, and his sister, Laurel, champion show rider and the first woman licenced to train gallopers in the South Island, retained the wider racing interests of their father. Laurel also trained a Melbourne Cup placegetter, Willie Win.

Bill Doyle's feats as a horseman - he was also one of Canterbury's leading stock dealers - and the success of the next generation as horsewomen are well known.

When, which descended from a borrowed foundation broodmare Violet Wrack who left When's dam Passive, was probably his favourite. He campaigned her with success in America and again on her return, rare in those days.
Gold Horizon, pound for pound, may have actually been his best trotter. He was amoung the pioneer patrons of European trotting stallions, a cause he was passionate about though the results were mixed to say the least.

For a part-time trainer Doyle had an enormous string of top horses, his pacers from earlier eras(Betty Boop, Reason Why, In The Mood, Wipe Out etc) often overlooked in favour of the many trotters which came later. He drove Pacing Power into third for trainer Roy Berry(who drove Springfield Globe his own horse) in the 1943 NZ Cup losing a winning chance when checked at the start.

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Losing four driving names of that stature one July 31st was certainly a bad day in harness history.

Credit: David McCarthy writing in HRWeekly 24Jul2013

RACING HISTORY INTERDOMINIONS

CHRISTCHURCH - STELLA FROST
The trotting world was stunned when five days after the 1971 Final at Addington it was announced that Western Australian Junior's Image had returned a positive swab. Trainer Phil Coulson was barred from trotting for seven years and ordered to pay $1,000 in costs. Stella Frost, runner up to Junior's Image, was promoted to first for a prize of $26,000 compared with $8,000 for second. Manaroa was promoted to second, with Last Flood third.



RACING HISTORY HORSES

Mount Eden time trialling at Addington
MOUNT EDEN

After watching Mount Eden's time trial in 1:56 3/5 at Addington on Saturday afternoon, I have no hesitation in naming him the fastest pacer the world has seen.
Given perfect conditions and rated well on Lexington's Big Red Mile in Kentucky, Mount Eden, providing he holds his form, will surely topple Bret Hanover's world record of 1:53 3/5.

And, under mobile start conditions at Yonkers Raceway, with Peter Wolfenden driving him (he has accepted this assignment, offered to him by Mount Eden's trainer Jack Miles), it is hard to imagine his rivals in this year's $170,000 International series living with him.

The six-furlong Addington track throughout Saturday morning received a thorough drenching by driving rain. Mount Eden's trial, scheduled for noon, had to be postponed for more than five hours until after the last race. Throughout the day the racing was affected by the 'off' track, and the final event, run about 20 minutes before Mount Eden's mile attempt, was won by Radiant Globe in the fastest time of the day, 3:27 for the 13 furlongs - a 2:07 mile rate.

The track was then scraped, but still remained quite damp - especially on the turn out of the front straight which occupied most of the second quarter-mile section of the mile. Miles, who drove Mount Eden, later likened this part of the track to porridge. Miles said: "I had to nurse him all the way around that bend, as I didn't want the horse to slip or knuckle over at speed and leave me with no horse, and I reckon that cost me a full second.

"Down the back the galloper was no use to me. I kept yelling to Jim (Jim Dalgety, driver of the galloping prompter, thoroughbred Maxwelton) to keep him up, but he shouted back he couldn't." Before the time trial, experienced horsemen agreed that Mount Eden would be lucky to break 2:00. To accomplish a time only 2/5 sec outside Cardigan Bay's NZ and Australian record in such conditions was phenomenal. There seems not much doubt that in the Miracle Mile in Sydney on Friday week, when Mount Eden will meet Stella Frost and Manaroa among others over mobile start mile conditions, given good conditions the remarkable 4-year-old will have little difficulty in breaking Halwes' 1:57 3/5 Australian record, accomplished in the same race in 1968.

Miles and his co-owner Bernie Ogden have also agreed to produce Mount Eden in Melbourne before he leaves for the United States and his Yonkers International bid. On the three-furlong Melbourne Showgrounds track, Mount Eden, for a $5000 incentive will attack the track record of 2:00 3/5, which seems at his mercy.

On Saturday at Addington my sectional times for Mount Eden were: first quarter 30 2/5 sec; second quarter 29 sec; third quarter 28 4/5; fourth quarter 28 2/5. It was the fifth time in 18 days, since he astonished trackwatchers with a casual 1:58 1/5 mile in his first serious workout in NZ, that Mount Eden had penetrated well inside the two-minute barrier; and each time his clocking was faster. His mightiest race here, though he finished only sixth, was in the third round of heats, when, over 13 furlongs, he lost three-quarters of a furlong at the start and was reliably timed to come his last mile and a half in an unheard of 2:56 4/5, his final mile in 1:56 4/5.

Mount Eden's $2000 for breaking 2:00 in the time trial (virtually appearance money) pushed his earning to only $21,160. His racing record is 13 wins and two placings from 20 starts. In the next few weeks in Australia he should double his bankroll, while when he reaches America his earning rate should really rocket. Mr Ogden said on Saturday night that several attractive offers have been made for Mount Eden, and that some are still being considered, but no deals have been made at this stage. Mr Ogden does not expect to go to America with Miles and Mount Eden, but said he might fly from Perth to New York to see him contest the $100,000 International Pace on June 4.

Mount Eden may be a freak but he is no fluke of breeding. He is by the imported Adios horse Morris Eden (p, 2:01 1/5 and $88,000), a three-quarter brother to the crack American 3-year-old of last year, Columbia George (p,3, 1:56). Owned by Noel Simpson, Morris Eden, after a successful stint in NZ, is now standing in Victoria, Australia, under Ron Hutchins. His place at Jack Hughes' Glencoe Stud at Pukekohe, has been taken by Good Time Eden, a half-brother by Good Time to Morris Eden.

Blankets, the dam of Mount Eden, was unraced. She was by the Light Brigade (by Volomite) horse Aksarben, who won eight races and had a big reputation but was restricted in his race career by recurring leg trouble. Blue Revue, the dam of Aksarben, was a fine producer. She also left Blue (2:09 1/5, world's record for a yearling; eight wins including the NZ Sapling Stakes, NZ Derby and NSW Derby) and several other less important winners.

Shepherd's Brook, the dam of Blankets, was by the good racehorse and sire, Nelson Derby. She won three races and apart from Blankets left Midday (6 wins), Midnight (four), Wallacetown (four) and Forenoon (four, and dam of Selena, 7 wins). Shepherd's Brook's dam, the unraced Queen's Treasure, produced Hardy Oak (12 wins), Jack's Treasure (four), Buccaneer (three), Single Star (six), Mareeta (five) and Manoa (four). And Single Star became the dam of a champion NZ filly of her day, Riviera, as well as Petro Star (six wins and dam of six winners including the latest NZ Futurity winner, True Temper).

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Ron Jenkins: Great Trotters

One of the most sensational pacers to race in Australia was the NZ-bred, WA-owned pacer Mount Eden who first gained attention as a 3-year-old in winning the WA Sires' Produce Stakes. In recording a mile rate of 2:04 in the mile and a half race from a standing start Mount Eden created a world record for a 3-year-old. In the following season he entered the world spotlight in harness racing. In little more than two months he recorded nine runs in less than two minutes for a timed flying mile.

Mount Eden contested the 1971 Inter-Dominion series at Addington, after recording 1:58 4/5 in a time trial before the series began. He failed to qualify for the final as he performed poorly at the start in each of his heats but was timed to run a flying mile in under two minutes in all three heats. Mount Eden's connections were later invited to run their pacer in a time trial on the day of the final and despite the damp conditions, he ran 1:56 3/5, just two-fifths of a second outside Cardigan Bay's Australasian record.

On his return to Australia, Mount Eden won the Craven Filter Miracle Mile by 15 yards in 1:58 4/5 after losing some six lengths at the start when he mixed his gait. He paced 1:56.7 in a time trial attempt at Harold Park, replacing Halwes' Australian record of 1:57.3. This was followed by runs of 1:59.8 in Melbourne and 1:57.8 at the Gloucester Park, WA, track in other time trials.

Mount Eden was sold to an American owner in April, 1971, for $268,000, making him the most expensive horse, galloper or trotter, to ever be sold in Australia. He left for America having won 14 races from 20 starts and $43,000 in prizemoney. After a time in which he was plagued with injury, Mount Eden was retired to the stud without contesting a race in America.

Credit: 'R B' writing in NZ Trotting Calendar 3Mar71

RACING HISTORY HORSES

HAPPY GIFT - Mystery Mare

This mare from Timaru won a couple of races in several years of trying and was the only winner by her sire the uncommercial Johnny Kawa. Her dam was by Record Time, another 'household name' and the next sire in the pedigree was Colossal, probably best known for one of his daughter's foals who was able to be registered as Colossal Dick without any objection from officialdom!

Happy Gift maintained the family tradition of going to locally bred stallions when sent to Steven Stock, a top racehorse and underrated sire overwhelmed by the rush of imports in the 1980s. The result was a horse called Happy Sunrise who set the racing world on it's ear in the mid 1980s.

Happy Sunrise went to NZ Cup class in less than 12 months winning 10 of his first 14 starts. This was a record under modern handicapping until broken by Derby soon afterward. One of those wins was in the Ashburton Flying Stakes, beating the subsequent NZ Cup winner Master Mood less than 12 months after starting racing for trainer Brian Saunders and driver Ricky May.

The horse made a mess of the NZ Cup; was fifth in a blanket Free For All finish from the outside second row draw breaking 2:27; and was then off to Australia where he was an anti-climax from the word go never winning a stake over $4000. Part of the problem was temperament. Sometimes Happy Sunrise when getting back to the stables after a win had as much action for spectators than the race itself. But it was electric racing while it lasted.

The family soon returned to obscurity until Kevin Fairbairn obtained a mare from it, sent her to top trotting stallions and got Whatsundermykilt and Glenbogle.



Credit: David McCarthy writing in Harnessed June 2016

RACING HISTORY HORSES

MANAROA

Dubbed the 'Ugly Duckling' because of his roach back and rat tail, Manaroa proved that appearances alone do not make a champion racehorse.

A winner of many top-class races, Manaroa would have had a more impressive record but for being unruly at the barrier in many of his races. In NZ Manaroa held a record of a 2:04 rating over 13 furlongs. He also won over two miles in 4:10 1/5 and was joint record holder with Caduceus for 1½ miles standing start in 3:04 2/5. His best NZ time for a mile was 1:59 2/5.

Manaroa won two heats of the 1971 Inter-Dominion at Addington, and finished a neck and a nose behind Junior's Image and Stella Frost in the final, subsequently being promoted to second placing upon the disqualification of Junior's Image. He brilliantly won his three heats of the 1972 Inter-Dominion in Brisbane and was backmarker off 24 yards in the final, but found the handicap, and being forced to race wide for a good portion of the event, too severe and finished fifth.

Manaroa was third behind Bay Foyle and Reichman in the Miracle Mile of 1972, and ran a similar placing in the same race in 1973 behind Reichman and Royal Ascot. From 24 yards in the 1973 Inter-Dominion in Sydney he was successful in one heat and second in another, but failed to qualify for the final because of a poor start in the other heat in which he finished last.

Manaroa was successful in other principal events in Australia. In winning the 1971 NSW Lord Mayor's Cup from 24 yards he defeated Welcome Advise and Lachamfer and rated 2:06 4/5. He ran 2:00 3/5 in winning the NSW Lightning Mile in September, 1972, by 25 yards and lowered the race record previously held by Macaree and Halwes at 2:01.

Against time in October, 1972, Manaroa paced 1:59 3/5 at Harold Park.



Credit: Ron Jenkins: Great Trotters

RACING HISTORY HORSES

Precocious & Jack Carmichael
PRECOCIOUS

The Precocious story can be taken up at a point where prominent Auckland owner Andy Carmichael and Hawera trainer Doug Grantham in 1963 purchased from veteran Akaroa breeder Jack Ferguson a yearling filly by Johnny Globe from the successful Light Brigade trotting mare Dauphine. The filly was a full sister of Au Fait, who had won the 1961 Dominion Handicap for her Wellington breeder Jack McKay and was subsequently sold to America at a high price.

Mr Carmichael, successful in business through Broadway pies, and over the years a good winning owner with horses like Prince Polka and Chequer Board, decided that Grantham should train their acquistion. Grantham was only too pleased to oblige in this role, but when, as he built up the work schedule for the young filly, she kept putting on condition instead of shedding it, he was at a loss to understand her. A vet solved the problem. The then 2-year-old filly was in foal.

A hasty conference was called, and on checking back the filly's state was traced to a night when an Aksarben colt, appropriately named All Gallant, had got over a fence and in amongst several yearlings on Mr Ferguson's property. Mr Ferguson most apologetically offered to replace the in-foal filly with another, but Andy and Doug decided that whatever will be will be. They gave the filly time off to have her foal - most aptly named the young mother Precocious and the foal Over Fence; put Precocious back into work and produced her for her first racing a a 5-year-old in the 1967-8 season.

That she was as forward at coming forward on the racetrack as she was for Mother Nature, Precocious showed by winning four races and gaining two seconds, a third and three fourths in her first campaign - during which Mr Carmichael bought out Grantham's share (after three wins) and placed her with Bob Mitchell at Cambridge.

At six, Precocious had 10 starts for one win, two thirds and a fourth, and at seven two wins and seven minor placings from 18 attempts in NZ and one win in Melbourne on a brief Australian sojourn at Inter-Dominion time. A costly persistence to tangle early in her races led her connections to think either she was feeling the tracks of she was averse to racing right-handed as they do in many northern tracks.

Meantime, Mr Carmichael, who had paid $20,000 to secure the up-and-coming Chequer Board from Northland owner Dave Jessop, had placed him with successful results with Templeton trainer Jack Carmichael (no relation). The southern horseman, after driving Precocious to the second of her wins as a 7-year-old at Cambridge in January 1970, was invited to take her south to his stable to produce as an 8-year-old. By this time on the fringe of good class, Precocious still persisted with that costly tangle early in her races and her first 22 appearances as an 8-year-old resulted in four seconds, a third and two fourths.

Ironically, it was when Jack Carmichael brought her back to Auckland in May 1971, that Precocious broke through for her first win for his stable - bolting away with an impressive double in the St Andrews and Remuera Handicaps at the Auckland winter meeting. They were her last two starts for the 1970-71 season, and she carried on the good work in the season under review, winning three of her first seven starts before placing fourth in the Worthy Queen Handicap at Addington on NZ Cup day.

Then it was the big one, the $10,200 Dominion Trotting Handicap on Show Day at Addington, November 12 1971. Precocious, on the strength of her lastest good form, was sent out 1-2 in the order of betting. And she didn't let the army of fans she had now established down in any way. Jack Carmichael, bounced the 9-year-old mother out from the limit mark in good style, and with no sign of that earlier chink in her armour she settled in to trot solidly handy on the outer with a good cover. She was going so well that her trainer-driver let her forge through to the front crossing the top with two and a half furlongs to travel.

She was never in danger of defeat, coming in with two lengths and a half to spare from Merrin. Northerner Easton Light was a good third after covering much ground and Marius close up next, best of the others. The winning time of 4:18 2/5 was the seventh-fastest in the 70-year-old history of the race, the record for which is held at 4:15 4/5 by none other than Precocious' sister, Au Fait. But Precocious could obviously have gone a lot faster.

The win brought her earnings to near $25,000 and while she appeared to train off a shade after that she was back in the winners' circle in February, taking the Hagley Trotting Free-for-all at the Canterbury Park meeting at Addington. It was a good season for her, and, as it was only her fourth, there appeared to be no reason why, before she had another look at the matron's paddock, she should not add a lot more lustre to her race record.

Meanwhile Over Fence, who, though speedy and a fairly quick qualifier, proved erratic and was not persevered with as a racing proposition. Shortly after Precocious gained her most important win in the Dominion Handicap, Over Fence made her a grandmother by producing a foal to the imported Tartan Hanover.



Credit: Ron Bisman: DB Trotting Annual 1972

RACING HISTORY FEATURE RACE COMMENT

1971 NZ DERBY STAKES

The voice crackled through the loudspeaker: "Would Mr R M Cameron please report to the Secretary's office." It was early last Wednesday evening, and Cameron, up from the southern township of Wyndham with his two-year-old, Great Twinkle, hurried the 200 paces to the top of the straight to honour the call. His mind was still was still at work on the cause of such a request when he entered the office where, standing to receive him were Highbank trainer Alister Kerslake and Templeton reinsman, Derek Jones.

A few minutes later Cameron left their company in high spirits, for not only had he been asked to handle Kerslake's promising three-year-old, Bachelor Star, that evening, but also in the New Zealand Derby the following Saturday. And after being thrilled with the colt's first night effort, Cameron rated the rich-ginger son of Bachelor Hanover perfectly to cuff stablemate Golden Guest a few yards short of the $7225 and then hit the wire with a fast-diminishing long neck advantage over the gamest of fillies in Van Glory.

Owned in the Christchurch suburb of Spreydon by Mr W F Woolley, who is now well into his eighties and still handling the distance admirably, Bachelor Star is out of the Captain Adios mare, Adio Star. Before leaving Bachelor Star, Adio Star had combined with Garrison Hanover to leave the top class but ill-fated pacer, Loyal Adios, and then to Goodland's cover left the consistent pacer, Colonel Adios, a 2:14 horse.

Bachelor Star's fourth dam was the imported mare, Estella Amos, who as well as establishing a winning family that is fast carving out a niche here and overseas, left the great Indianapolis, three times winner of the NZ Cup. Tondeleyo, a daughter of Estella Amos and Wrack, proved a great broodmare, being responsible for Margaret Hall and Loyal Guest, who between them left some top winners including Orbiter (1:58.8), Kinsella, Cappy Rowan, Late Frost, Orbette, Rowan Star, Snell, Rosslyn Rowan, True Guest, Grand March and Adio Star. As a racehorse, Tondeleyo had little in her favour, and after three chances, left the scene. Loyal Guest, by Grattan Loyal, and second dam of Bachelor Star, is also the granddam of Golden Guest, True Forbes, Worthy Guest, Special Dream, Overland and Goldstep, all of whom won races.

This was Bachelor Star's fifth win - he won two last season as a juvenile - and he won in a manner that pointed to staying potential; previously he had been recognised as a shorter-course specialist more than anything else. But after racing three back and one out, tracking Star Land three-wide passing the three furlong peg and then firing a dogged finishing thrust in the stretch, Bachelor Star looked the ideal racehorse in beating Van Glory by a long neck.

Van Glory tried hard to reach Bachelor Star, but this tough little filly gave him too much of a start from where she was lodged at the back of the field and had to be content with the $2225 cheque. A plain bay, Van Glory in a filly to be proud of; she certainly put her whole heart in the attempt of bettering the place filling roles in this same event of her parents, Van Dieman and Malabella. Golden Guest, who appeared to have the race won inside the furlong until she gave it away just short of the line, ran a mighty race, although she had a great deal more in her favour than the luckless Roydon Roux, who came fast and late to run fourth. Armbro Free, after a poor run early, battled on for fifth.

Bachelor Star is trained by Mr Woolley's son-in-law, Alister Kerslake, who gained experience in the stable of M B Edwards, before moving to a butcher shop in Methven. Then, feeling tired of the whole business one day about three years ago, he erected a sign in the window advising customers he wouldn't be back. Instead, he branched out into training, taking over Mr Woolley's string of trotters and soon experiencing success with a team of about 12 horses that was climaxed by the New Zealand Derby win of Bachelor Star. There is no chance of him donning the striped apron and wielding the carving knife again. As Cameron quipped after the race: "This meat you've got now would be a bit too good for the shop."

Credit: Mike Grainger writing in NZ trotting Calendar

RACING HISTORY FEATURE RACE COMMENT

True Averil with Clarrie & Mrs Rhodes and driver Doody Townley
1971 NZ TROTTING CUP

Every horse, without exception, looked muscled up and bright for the $30,000 challenge and little time was lost once the 15 runners was in the starter's hands. Rain Again and James failed to begin cleanly, Manaroa was a shade slow but pacing just the same and the others all headed off without further ado.

Sam Tryax, driven by D G Jones, was out fast and took the field through the first quarter in 32.6 sec., from Western Ridge, Intrepid on the fence, Radiant Globe on the outside of Jacquinot Bay, Upper Class, Rauka Lad, Garcon Roux, Robalan, Rain Again, Valencia, True Averil in a gap, Bay Foyle, James and Manaroa.

Western Ridge headed Sam Tryax after half a mile reached in 64, but only briefly, for Upper Class then sought the lead, making the first six furlongs in 1:35.4 and the mile in 2:06.6. At that stage Western Ridge was under cover with Sam Tryax and Radiant Globe further along the fence, then Rauka Lad one out with Jacquinot Bay, Robalan, Garcon Roux, Rain Again and True Averil in close contact. Robalan moved fast racing into the six furlongs, tabbing the watches at 2:36.6 for the mile and a quarter, but soon had the company of Radiant Globe.

Radiant Globe looked to have the others in a spot of bother when he opened up a small gap on passing the half mile in 3:07.4. Even when Radiant Globe increased his lead passing the three furlong mark, it distinctly appeared as though his genial Blenheim owners, Bob White and Jack Hart, were in for the kill, because Townley, who at one stage had been four wide, had touched True Averil with his whip when asking him to race three wide past Robalan and Manaroa.

True Averil never looked likely to catch Radiant Globe outside the furlong; inside it was by no means cut and dried, and on the line, with both horses tuckered out after 4:11 of epic racing. True Averil had proved a better horse on the day by a neck. Intrepid, after being pushed back, ran an excellent third, being no more impressive than Bay Foyle, a solid finisher after being well off the pace. Manaroa battled on in dour style for his fifth without ever looking like winning, and then came Valencia, running on, Sam Tryax, Garcon Roux, Rauka Lad, James, Western Ridge, Upper Class, Rain Again and Jacquinot Bay.

Credit: Mike Grainger writing in NZ Trotting Calendar

RACING HISTORY FEATURE RACE COMMENT

1971 NZ OAKS

Shalimar, a speedy Garrison Hanover filly whose racing this season has been plagued with the wrong sort of luck, received a reward for perseverance when she easily won the NZ Oaks from Gay Hal. This time much of the running was in her favour. The only time when she could have been in difficulty was with three furlongs to go when the leader, Tiawana, ran out under pressure and forced Shalimar three wide.

Trainer R W Stockdale then decided to press on and hope the filly was as good as her breeding may suggest. And although Gay Hal climbed out of the ruck and came fast from there, Shalimar was never really in bother of defeat over the concluding stages and won convincingly.

Shalimar is the first out of the speedy Morano mare, Fury River. She is raced by Mr A G Blank and the estate of Mr G J Francis, one of the principals here being Mr W J Francis, who as a birdcage steward of the New Brighton Trotting Club, was right in the thick of things.

Credit: mike Grainger writing in NZ Trotting Calendar

RESULTS OF PRESTIGE RACES FOR THIS SEASON
 
CANTERBURY CLASSIC

Current Sponsor: ( LAMB & HAYWARD )
(Formerly known as Stars Travel Miracle Mile: Pan Am Mile: Originally run by New Brighton TC.First run 1971.) 1982 Run in Feb, previously Dec 1980: 2000 Run Twice 14 Apr & 13 Oct: 1971-1987 One Mile: 1988-1998 2000 Metres. 1999-2006 1950 Metres. 2007- 2600 Metres. Mobile to 2007. From 2008 2600 Metres Stand. 1983-92 GROUP 1: 2002-05 GROUP 2: 2006 GROUP 3 2013 GROUP 2
GROUP 3: Group 2 from 2013:2600 Metre Pace: Standing Start.
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ARAPAHO  
TRAINER J W Smolenski DRIVER J W Smolenski TIME 1 59
HANDICAP Mobile STAKE 10,000 DATE 4/12/1971
BREEDING 4g Bachelor Hanover-Dusky Bay
OWNER L Forde
NEW BRIGHTON 3YO HANDICAP PACE

Current Sponsor:
1970-72 1 5/8 Miles: 1973-80 2600m.
3YO Handicap Pace run from 1970 to 1980
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER STROLL AWAY  
TRAINER I S Sutherland DRIVER I S Sutherland TIME 3 27.0
HANDICAP 12 yards STAKE $3000 DATE 4/12/1971
BREEDING 3g Armbro Del-Stroll
OWNER I S Sutherland
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07 2/5
GREYHOUND HANDICAP TROT

Current Sponsor:
1 mile & 5 furlongs 1951-52: 1 1/2 miles 1953-55: 1 mile & 5 Furlongs 1956-72: 2600 metres 1973-77
Open Handicap Trot: Held from 1951 to 1977
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MERRIN  
TRAINER R C Day DRIVER L C May TIME 3 27 3/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $3750 DATE 20/11/1971
BREEDING 7h Court Martial-Tat Scott
OWNER Mrs I & R C Day
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07 4/5
OLLIVIER HCP

Current Sponsor:
1935-49 Run as Handicap: 1950 Not Run: 1951-53 Two Mile FFA: 1954-55 One Mile & Half FFA: 1956 Two Mile Hcp: 1957-63 One Mile & Five Furlong Hcp: 1964-65 One Mile & Quarter Hcp: 1966-72 One Mile & Five Furlong Hcp: 1973-74 2000 Metres Hcp: 1975-76 1 Mile Mobile FFA: 1977-79 1 Mile Mobile Restricted FFA: Last run 1979
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SASSENACH  
TRAINER J H Winter DRIVER R D Butt TIME 3 24.2
HANDICAP Limit STAKE $4,750 DATE 20/11/1971
BREEDING 5g Young Charles-Leyava
OWNER A M Sellar & J H Winter
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 05.8
NEW ZEALAND DERBY

Current Sponsor: ( SUNSHINE STARS )
(Formerly New Brighton Derby Stakes) From 1914 to 1925 the race was conducted by the New Brighton Trotting Cub and decided in the Autumn (1925 Winner: Kohara). In 1925 it was taken over by the Metropolitan Trotting Club and decided in the Spring (Winner: Native Chief). 1982 decided in Summer. = Dead Heat. 1968-9 1 mile & half: 1970-2 1m 5f: 1973-83 2600 Metres Stand: From 1984 2600 Metres Mobile.
GROUP 1:Three-year-old Pace: 2600 Metres: Mobile Start.
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BACHELOR STAR  
TRAINER A L Kerslake DRIVER R M Cameron TIME 3 29.4
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 12,155 DATE 20/11/1971
BREEDING c Bachelor Hanover-Adio Star
OWNER W F Woolley
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09.0
FFA MOBILE PACE

Current Sponsor: ( FAHEY FENCE HIRE )
(Formerly Allan Matson FFA:Monsanto FFA) 1958 Two Miles: 1959-62 Invitation Handicap: 1959-1972 One Mile & Five Furlongs: 1964 One Mile & Half: 1970-2 1m 5f Stand 1973&4 2600 Metres Stand: 1975-1994 2600 Metres Mobile: 1995&6 One Mile Mobile: 1997 1950 Metres Mobile: 1998-2002 2600 Metres Mobile: 2003 1950 Metres Mobile : 2004-2013 2600 Metres Mobile : 2015 1950 Metres Mobile : 2017 2600 Metres Mobile : 2018 1950 Metres Mobile : From 2019 1980 Metres Mobile. GROUP 2 1982-94:GROUP 1 1995-7:Group 2 : Group 3 2007
GROUP 3: 2600 Metre Pace: Mobile Start
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BERKLEIGH  
TRAINER C A Winter DRIVER J A Carmichael TIME 3 24.6
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 4,750 DATE 17/11/1971
BREEDING 5h Johnny Globe-Fifth Brigade
OWNER Mrs and C A Winter
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 06.0
NZ TROTTING FREE-FOR-ALL

Current Sponsor: ( LIVAMOL NZ )
1941 1 5/8 Miles: 1942 1 1/4 Miles: 1943 1 5/8 Miles: 1944 & 45 Not Run: 1946 One Mile & Half: 1947-1961 One Mile & Five Furlongs 1952 & 1954 Not Run: 1962 Twelve & Half Furlongs Mobile: 1963-1972 One Mile & Five Furlongs Stand: 1973 2600 Metres Stand: 1974-2011 2600 Metres Mobile: 2012-2013 2000 Metres Mobile: 2014-2017 1950 Metres Mobile: From 2018 1980 Metres Mobile. GROUP 2 1982 to 1999: From 2000 GROUP 1
GROUP 1: For Trotting Horses only: 1980 Metres: Mobile Start.
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER TONY BEAR  
TRAINER W R Butt DRIVER R D Butt TIME 3 27.6
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 3,750 DATE 17/11/1971
BREEDING 11h Intangible-Safe Return
OWNER J T Smith
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.8
METROPOLITAN/ PREMIER STAKES

Current Sponsor:
1964-72 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1973-78 2600m: 1979-80 2600m Mobile: 1981-85 2600m Std. From 1964-74 called Metropolitan Stakes
4YO Pace run from 1964 to 1985
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER TOTARA JACK  
TRAINER F E Newfield DRIVER F E Newfield TIME 3 32.0
HANDICAP Front STAKE $1750 DATE 17/11/1971
BREEDING 4h Scottish Command-Jan
OWNER D W & W J Boese & J Burrows
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 10 3/5
SMITHSON HANDICAP PACE

Current Sponsor:
1946-51 2 Miles Std: 1952 Not Run: 1953-59 1 5/8 Miles: 1960 Not Run: 1961 1 1/4 Miles: 1962 9 1/2 furlongs Mobile: 1963-66 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1967-72 1 1/4 Miles: 1973-75 2600m.
Handicap Pace run from 1946 to 1975
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ARAPAHO  
TRAINER J W Smolenski DRIVER J W Smolenski TIME 2 39 4/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $3750 DATE 12/11/1971
BREEDING 4h Bachelor Hanover-Dusky Bay
OWNER L Forde
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07 4/5
DOMINION TROTTING FFA

Current Sponsor: ( RENWICK FARMS )
1911-1973 Distance Two Miles: 1934&1935 Distance One & Half Miles: From 1973 3200 Metres Stand. 2007- Free-For-All
GROUP 1: For Trotting Horses only 3200 metres
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER PRECOCIOUS  
TRAINER J A Carmichael DRIVER J A Carmichael TIME 4 18.4
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 10,000 DATE 12/11/1971
BREEDING 9m Johnny Globe-Dauphine
OWNER A H Carmichael
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09.2
NEW ZEALAND FREE-FOR-ALL

Current Sponsor: ( MEDIAWORKS )
(Renamed New Zealand Pacing Sprint Championship, 1942-48) 1914-1919 One Mile & Quarter: 1920-1927 One Mile: 1928-1961 One Mile & Quarter: 1962 Nine & Half Furlongs Mobile: 1963-1972 One Mile & Quarter Stand: 1973-1974 2000 Metres Stand: 1975-2011 2000 Metres Mobile: 2012-2013 1 Mile Mobile: 2014-2017 1950 Metres Mobile From 2018 1980 Metres Mobile
1982 on GROUP 1: 1980Metres: Mobile Start.
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BAY FOYLE  
TRAINER C J Parsons DRIVER C J Parsons TIME 2 34.4
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 5,000 DATE 12/11/1971
BREEDING 5h Goose Bay-Glenfoyle
OWNER N R Johnstone
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 03.6
RICCARTON STAKES

Current Sponsor:
1 1/2 miles 1935: 1 1/4 miles 1936-63: 1 1/2 miles 1964-71: 1 1/4 miles 1972: 2600 metres 1973-77. From 1964 run as seperate races on Tuesday & Friday of Cup Week
3yo Handicap Pace: Between 1964 & 1977 run as two races: Run from 1935 to 1977
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER GUERNSEY PRINCESS  
TRAINER D G Rickerby DRIVER J W Smolenski TIME 3 15 3/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $1600 DATE 12/11/1971
BREEDING f Bachelor Hanover-Allanax
OWNER C J de la Mare
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 10 2/5
RICCARTON STAKES

Current Sponsor:
1 1/2 miles 1935: 1 1/4 miles 1936-63: 1 1/2 miles 1964-71: 1 1/4 miles 1972: 2600 metres 1973-77. From 1964 run as seperate races on Tuesday & Friday of Cup Week
3yo Handicap Pace: Between 1964 & 1977 run as two races: Run from 1935 to 1977
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BARBARA DEL  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 3 12 2/5
HANDICAP 36 yards STAKE $1600 DATE 9/11/1971
BREEDING f Armbro Del-Coo Doo
OWNER R A Burnett & R G Woodham
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08 2/5
CANTERBURY HANDICAP

Current Sponsor:
1938-52 2 Mile Std: 1953-58 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1959 2 Mile Std: 1960-72 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1973-81 2600m Std: 1982 2600m Mobile.
Handicap Pace: Run from 1938 to 1982
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ROYAL TRUMP  
TRAINER C S Donald DRIVER R P Nyhan TIME 3 27 1/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $4000 DATE 9/11/1971
BREEDING 6h Morris Eden-Vignon
OWNER R R & Est C T Wilson
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07 3/5
WORTHY QUEEN HCP TROT

Current Sponsor: ( HORNBY LIQUOR CENTRE )
Prior to 1951 Sockburn Sprint(FFA): 1955-72 One Mile & Quarter: 1973-79 2000 metres: 1980-81 2600 metres. Not run 1982 - 2021. 2022 2000m stand
Group Three Trot on Cup Day: 2000 metres stand
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BAMBI  
TRAINER R S Caskey DRIVER G D Shand TIME 2 39
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 3,250 DATE 9/11/1971
BREEDING 6g Forward-Ikawai
OWNER R S Caskey
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.2
NEW ZEALAND TROTTING CUP

Current Sponsor: ( IRT )
1904-1972 Two Miles: From 1929 to 1931 run as two Heats and a Final: From 1973 3200m stand. 2008 Free-For-All
GROUP 1: 3200 Metres: Standing Start
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER TRUE AVERIL  
TRAINER C L Rhodes DRIVER D J Townley TIME 4 11
HANDICAP Scr STAKE $30,000 DATE 9/11/1971
BREEDING 6 h Fallacy - Bonnie Averil
OWNER C L Rhodes
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 05.5
ORDEAL TROTTING CUP

Current Sponsor: ( RENWICK FARMS )
Originally run by New Brighton TC. LISTED RACE 2001-2018. Group 3 from 2019.
Group Three: Open Trot: Mobile (Preferential Barrier Draw): 2600m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MARIUS  
TRAINER J C Nordqvist DRIVER J C Nordqvist TIME 3 30
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 2,750 DATE 18/09/1971
BREEDING 8g Morano-Little Liza
OWNER J C Nordqvist
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09.2
HUTCHINSON FREE FOR ALL

Current Sponsor:
1970-73 1 5/8 Miles Hcp Pace: 1974-77 2000m: 1978-81 2600m: 2000m Mob 1982
Free For All Run from 1970 to 1982
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER LOCAL LIE  
TRAINER P G O'Reilly DRIVER P G O'Reilly TIME 3 28 4/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $2750 DATE 18/09/1971
BREEDING 6m Local Light-Tall Story
OWNER J W Thomas
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08 3/5
LAING HANDICAP

Current Sponsor:
1963 1 1/2 Miles Std: 1964 1 5/8 Miles: 1965 2 Miles: 1966-72 1 5/8 Miles: 1973-77 2600m: 1978-81 2000m: 1982 2600m.
Handicap Pace Run from 1963 to 1982
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER PUN  
TRAINER W E Lowe DRIVER W E Lowe TIME 3 31 3/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $3250 DATE 4/09/1971
BREEDING 6g Thurber Frost-Merval
OWNER Mrs W T Lowe
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 10 1/5
WINTER HANDICAP TROT

Current Sponsor:
1944-47 2 Miles Std: 1948-54 1 5/8 Miles: 1955 1 1/2 Miles: 1956-57 2 Miles: 1958-61 2600m: 1962 12 1/2 Furlongs Mobile: 1963-73 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1974-84 2600m
Handicap Trot Run from 1944 to 1984
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MIGHTY CHIEF  
TRAINER T F Mounce DRIVER R P Nyhan TIME 3 31.0
HANDICAP 24 yards STAKE $3250 DATE 28/08/1971
BREEDING 11h My Chief-Gala Girl
OWNER T F Mounce
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09 4/5
NATIONAL HCP

Current Sponsor:
1904-40 2 mile Std: 1941 1½m Std: 1942-50 2m Std: 1951-56 1m 5furlong Std: 1957 2m Std: 1958-59 1m5f Std: 1960-61 2m Std: 1962-72 1m5f Std: 1973-81 2600mtrs Std: 1982 Race Discontinued
Handicap Pace. Last run 1981
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SAM TRYAX  
TRAINER R C Whitford DRIVER K Purdon TIME 3 28 4/5
HANDICAP 12 yards STAKE $4000 DATE 28/08/1971
BREEDING 5h Lucky Tryax-Preferable
OWNER Mrs & R C Whitford
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08 3/5
LOUISSON HANDICAP

Current Sponsor:
Handicap Pace: Standing Start: 2 miles 1935-38: 1 1/2 miles 1939-40: Not Run 1941-1947: 2 miles 1948-50: 1 mile & 5 furlongs 1951-72: 2600 metres 1973-86
Standing Start Handicap Pace run from 1935 to 1940 then 1948 to 1986
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER RAIN AGAIN  
TRAINER G B Noble DRIVER D Mangos TIME 3 30 1/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $4000 DATE 21/08/1971
BREEDING 6h Fallacy-Loraine
OWNER M Cartridge & A E Herbert
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09 3/5
CHRISTCHURCH HANDICAP TROT

Current Sponsor:
1950-54 1 1/4 Miles: 1955-59 1 5/8 Miles: 1960-63 1 1/4 Miles: 1964-72 1 5/8 Miles: 1973-84 2600m.
Handicap Trot run from 1950 to 1984
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER PRECOCIOUS  
TRAINER J A Carmichael DRIVER J A Carmichael TIME 3 28 1/5
HANDICAP 12 yards STAKE $3250 DATE 21/08/1971
BREEDING 9m Johnny Globe-Dauphine
OWNER A H Carmichael
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08 1/5
LIGHTNING HANDICAP

Current Sponsor:
Standing Start: 1mile 1904-18; 1 1/2miles 1919; 1mile 1920-31; 1 1/2miles 1932-36; 1 1/4miles 1937; 1 1/2miles 1938-40; 2miles 1941; Not run 1942; 1 1/4miles 1943-61; 9 1/2furlongs 1962; 1 1/4miles 1963-72; Not run 1973&4; 2000metres 1975-82. In saddle 1904, 1909-11, 1920-31. Run as FFA 1947, 52, 59, 62, 63 & 1965
From 1904 to 1982
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER FORTUNATE  
TRAINER J H Winter DRIVER S D Edge TIME 2 44
HANDICAP Front STAKE £2425 DATE 21/08/1971
BREEDING 5g Garrison Hanover-Dillons Advice
OWNER L Duff
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 11 1/5
CANTERBURY JUVENILE

Current Sponsor:
1938-60 1 1/4 Miles Std: 1942-45 & 1961-67 Not Run: 1968-69 1 Mile Mobile: 1970-73 1 1/4 Miles Std: 1974-75 2000m Std: 1976 2000m Mob: 1977-78 1 Mile Mob. In 1971&72 two races run.
2YO Pace run from 1938 to 1978
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ROYDON ROUX  
TRAINER G B Noble DRIVER D Mangos TIME 2 38.0
HANDICAP 24 yards STAKE $1500 DATE 19/06/1971
BREEDING f Scottish Hanover-La Mignon
OWNER R A McKenzie
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 06 2/5
CANTERBURY JUVENILE

Current Sponsor:
1938-60 1 1/4 Miles Std: 1942-45 & 1961-67 Not Run: 1968-69 1 Mile Mobile: 1970-73 1 1/4 Miles Std: 1974-75 2000m Std: 1976 2000m Mob: 1977-78 1 Mile Mob. In 1971&72 two races run.
2YO Pace run from 1938 to 1978
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MARK GENTRY  
TRAINER J S Dalgety DRIVER R Young TIME 2 42 2/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $1500 DATE 19/06/1971
BREEDING g Gentry-Miss Jessie
OWNER J S Dalgety
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 10.0
WINTER CUP

Current Sponsor: ( ELMWOOD TRADING CO )
First run CPTC 1946. 1946-61 Winter Cup: 1962 Winter FFA: 1963-70 Winter Stakes: 1971 - Winter Cup. 2007: Listed:3200m Handicap: 1986-94 C6+: 1995-6 M3+: 1997-8 M4+: 1999 Not Held: 2000 5win+: 2001-3 4w+: 2004 - 5 win Front.Group/listed status ceased 2017.
1980m Mobile: PBD
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SMOKEY EXPRESS  
TRAINER A M Purdon DRIVER D C Watts TIME 3 28 3/5
HANDICAP 12 yards STAKE $3500 DATE 19/06/1971
BREEDING 7h Smokey Hanover-Dorita
OWNER W C Kennedy & A M Purdon
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08 3/5
PRESIDENTS HANDICAP (NBTC)

Current Sponsor:
1940 1 1/2 Miles Std: 1941-56 2 Miles: 1948-1950 & 1957 Not Run: 1958-61 1 1/2 Miles: 1962-63 2 Miles: 1964-70 1 5/8 Miles: 1971&2 Not Run: 1973 2600m
Handicap Trot 1940, Pace Run from 1941 to 1972
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BLACK LABEL  
TRAINER F E Newfield DRIVER F E Newfield TIME 3:31.4
HANDICAP Lt STAKE $2,500 DATE 10/04/1971
BREEDING 5g Newport Chief-Rum
OWNER
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2:10.0
NEW BRIGHTON CUP

Current Sponsor: ( AVON CITY FORD )
Originally run by New Brighton TC. 1950-73 Two Miles: 1974-87 3200 Metres: 1988-2009 2600 Metres Mobile. From 2010 2600 Stand. GROUP 3 1983-1997(?): Listed from 2000-2010: Gr 3 From 2011
Group 3: FFA Pace: Std from 2010: 2600m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER RADIANT GLOBE  
TRAINER J G Hampton DRIVER J G Hampton TIME 4 13
HANDICAP 30 Yards STAKE 5,000 DATE 10/04/1971
BREEDING 5h Johnny Globe-Raidette
OWNER J K Hart & R A White
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 06.6
NEW ZEALAND OAKS

Current Sponsor: ( IRT )
(Formerly New Brighton Oaks 1948; 1948-1963 Run by New Brighton T.C.) 1948-1969 One Mile & Half: 1971-1973 One Mile & Five Furlongs: 1974-1984 2600 Metres Stand : From 1985 2600 Metres Mobile
GROUP 1:Three-year-old Fillies Pace: 2600 Metres: Mobile Start
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SHALIMAR  
TRAINER R W Stockdale DRIVER R.W. Stockdale TIME 3 33
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 3,000 DATE 10/04/1971
BREEDING Garrison Hanover-Fury River
OWNER A G Blank and Est G J Francis
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 11.0
NZ TROTTING CHAMPIONSHIP

Current Sponsor: ( FRED SHAW MEMORIAL )
Replaced the NZ Hambletonian Hcp in 1966, refer: 1966-72 Two Miles: 1973-6 3200 Metres: From 1977 2600 Metres Mobile. 1983-94 GROUP 3:1995-2002 GROUP 2:2003-4 GROUP 1
GROUP 1:Open Trot: 2600 Metres: Mobile
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER Not Run  
TRAINER DRIVER TIME
HANDICAP STAKE DATE 31/03/1971
BREEDING
OWNER
EASTER CUP

Current Sponsor: ( BRECKON FARMS )
Prior to 1939 Easter Hcp Two Miles: 1918 & 1938 Not Run: 1940 1 1/2 miles: 1942-1946 Two Miles: 1947 & 48 Easter Stakes FFA One Mile & Half: 1949-50 Easter Hcp: 1951 Not Run: 1952-1970 One Mile & Five Furlongs: 1972-1973 Two Miles: From 1974 3200 Metres Stand. 1983 GROUP 2; Group 1 1985; Last run 2021.
GROUP 1: Pace: 3200 Metres: Standing Start
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER Not run - Inter Doms  
TRAINER DRIVER TIME
HANDICAP STAKE DATE 28/03/1971
BREEDING
OWNER
RETA PETER HANDICAP TROT

Current Sponsor: ( MADDISONS RESTAURANT )
1946-48 TELEGRAPH HCP. 1946 2 Miles Std: 1947-73 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1951,61,66,67 & 71 Not Run 1974-76 2600m Std: 1977-89 3200m Std:(1983 Not Run) 1982 2600m Std. 1984-1989 Race name changed to sponsors
Handicap Trot Run from 1946 to 1982
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER Not Run  
TRAINER DRIVER TIME
HANDICAP STAKE DATE 24/03/1971
BREEDING
OWNER
A L RATTRAY HANDICAP

Current Sponsor:
1941 2 Mile Std: 1942 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1943-56 2 Mile Std: 1944-47 & 1951 Not Run: 1957 1 Mile Flying Start: 1958-62 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1963-65 2 Mile Std: 1966 1 5/8 Mile Mob: 1967-73 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1974-75 2600m Std: 1976 2600m Mob
Pace: Ran from 1941 to 1976
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER Not Run  
TRAINER DRIVER TIME
HANDICAP STAKE DATE 18/03/1971
BREEDING
OWNER
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS CONSOLATION

Current Sponsor: ( ARTHUR D RILEY & CO LTD )
2011 Run by NZMTC at Alexandra Park
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER WATERLOO  
TRAINER C R Berkett DRIVER M F Holmes TIME 4 22.0
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (18yds) STAKE $3,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING 8g Light Brigade-Lucky Diana
OWNER C R Berkett
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 11.0
INTERDOMINION PACERS CONSOLATION

Current Sponsor: ( NRM )
2011 held by NZMTC at Alexandra Park
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER CHEQUER BOARD  
TRAINER J A Carmichael DRIVER J A Carmichael TIME 3 32.8
HANDICAP Stand 1M&5F (18yds) STAKE $4,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING 9h Johnny Globe-Placid Girl
OWNER A H Carmichael
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 11.0
INTERDOMINION PACERS GRAND FINAL

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER STELLA FROST  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 3 26.6
HANDICAP Stand 1M 5F (24yds) STAKE $40,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING 6m Thurber Frost-Stella Grattan
OWNER L H Tilson
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.2
INTERDOMINION PACERS CONSOLATION

Current Sponsor: ( NRM )
2011 held by NZMTC at Alexandra Park
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER RADIANT GLOBE  
TRAINER J G Hampton DRIVER J G Hampton TIME 3 27.0
HANDICAP Stand 1M&5F (12yds) STAKE $4,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING 5h Johnny Globe-Raidette
OWNER J K Hart & R A White
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.4
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS GRAND FINAL

Current Sponsor: ( DREAM WITH ME STABLES )
2011 - Run by NZMTC at Alexandr Park
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER GEFFIN  
TRAINER C S Hunter DRIVER C S Hunter TIME 4 23.6
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (Scr) STAKE $10,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING 4g King Creed-Craven
OWNER R A McKenzie
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 11.8
INTERDOMINION PACERS CONSOLATION

Current Sponsor: ( NRM )
2011 held by NZMTC at Alexandra Park
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER TORRENT  
TRAINER J W Smolenski DRIVER J W Smolenski TIME 2 34.4
HANDICAP Stand 1M&5F (Scr) STAKE $4,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING 8m Stormyway-Bashful
OWNER M Connolly & S E Harley
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 12.0
3YO CHAMPIONSHIP

Current Sponsor: ( BELL TEA FOR THAT FEEL ALIVE FLAVOUR )
Formerly John Brandon 3YO Championship: 1969-73 One Mile Five Furlongs: 1973-83 2600 Metres Stand: From 1984 2600 Metres Mobile. Transferred from Late Mar to FFA Day in 1999. Then back to Feb in 2005. LAST RUNNING 2005.
GROUP 2: Three Year Old Pace: 2600 metres: Mobile
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ROYAL BELMER  
TRAINER J W Smolenski DRIVER D G Jones TIME 3 33.6
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 3,000 DATE 27/02/1971
BREEDING f Thurber Frost-Lady Belfield
OWNER J M C Osborne, J W Smolenski & M Vermeulen
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER RADIANT GLOBE  
TRAINER J G Hampton DRIVER J G Hampton TIME 3 22.6
HANDICAP FFA Stand 1M&5F STAKE $3,000 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING 5h Johnny Globe-Raidette
OWNER J K Hart & R A White
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 04.8
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER RAIN AGAIN  
TRAINER G B Noble DRIVER D Mangos TIME 3 29.2
HANDICAP FFA Stand 1M&5F STAKE $3,000 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING 5g Fallacy-Loraine
OWNER M Cartridge & A E Herbert
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08.8
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
2011 - Races held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER GEFFIN  
TRAINER C S Hunter DRIVER C S Hunter TIME 2 39.6
HANDICAP Stand 1M&5Qtr (Scr) STAKE $2,500 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING 4g King Creed-Craven
OWNER R A McKenzie
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.6
NEW ZEALAND TROTTING DERBY

Current Sponsor: ( PRON8URE PROBIOTIC )
(Formerly known as New Zealand Trotting Stakes) 1943-1965 One Mile & Half: 1951 & 1966-1973 One Mile & Five Furlongs: 1974-1984 2600 Metres Stand: From 1985 2600 Metres Mobile. 1983-90 GROUP 1:1991 to 2000 GROUP 2: From 2001 GROUP 1
GROUP 1: Three-year-old Trotters: 2600 Metres: Mobile Start.
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER GOOD ADMIRAL  
TRAINER C V & T M May DRIVER T M May TIME 3 41
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 1,500 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING g Goodland-Bonny Rachael
OWNER A H Carmichael & J X Ferguson
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 16.0
NZ WELCOME STAKES

Current Sponsor: ( )
Handicap 1945-8: 1943-1972 One Mile & Quarter: 1973-1989 2000 metres Stand: 1990-98 2000 Metres Mobile: 1999-2018 1950 Metres Mobile. From 2019 1980 Metres Mobile. Group 1 from 2006-2011: Gr2 2012
GROUP 2: Two-Year-Old Pace: 1980 metres: Mobile
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER BARBARA DEL  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 2 41.2
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 3,000 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING f Armbro Del-Coo Doo
OWNER R A Burnett & R G Woodham
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09.0
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
2011 - Races held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER LIGHT VIEW  
TRAINER J Grant & D G Jones DRIVER D G Jones TIME 2 36.8
HANDICAP Stand 1M&Qtr (12yds) STAKE $2,500 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING 7m Light Brigade-Loyal Estelle
OWNER C E Hunt
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 05.4
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER STELLA FROST  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 3 23.2
HANDICAP FFA Stand 1M&5F STAKE $3,000 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING 6m Thurber Frost-Stella Frost
OWNER L H Tilson
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 05.2
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MANAROA  
TRAINER A M Harrison DRIVER A M Harrison TIME 3 27.0
HANDICAP FFA Stand 1M&5F STAKE $3,000 DATE 20/02/1971
BREEDING 5g Morano-Flying Mile
OWNER C J McLaughlin
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.4
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SASSANACH  
TRAINER J H Winter DRIVER R Young TIME 4 16.6
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (Scr) STAKE $3,000 DATE 17/02/1971
BREEDING 4h Young Charles-Leyava
OWNER A M Sellars & J H Winter
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08.4
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MANAROA  
TRAINER A M Harrison DRIVER A M Harrison TIME 4 10.6
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (12yds) STAKE $3,000 DATE 17/02/1971
BREEDING 5g Morano-Flying Mile
OWNER C J McLaughlin
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 05.8
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
2011 - Races held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER RETEP'S PRIDE  
TRAINER K D Murray DRIVER K D Murray TIME 3 30.2
HANDICAP FFA Stand 1M&5F STAKE $2,500 DATE 17/02/1971
BREEDING 8m Goulburn Monarch-Spectro Colour
OWNER J Y Wong
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08.6
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
2011 - Races held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER MERRIN  
TRAINER R C Day DRIVER R Young TIME 3 29.0
HANDICAP FFA Stand 1M&5F STAKE $2,500 DATE 17/02/1971
BREEDING 6g Court Martial-Tat Scott
OWNER Mrs I & R C Day
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08.6
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER STELLA FROST  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 4 12.4
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (24yds) STAKE $3,000 DATE 17/02/1971
BREEDING 6m Thurber Frost-Stella Grattan
OWNER L H Tilson
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 06.2
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER HOLY HAL  
TRAINER D Todd DRIVER K Balloch TIME 4 23.0
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (Scr) STAKE $3,000 DATE 17/02/1971
BREEDING 7h Hal Tryax-Sandra Kay
OWNER D Keenan & J R Rodgers
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 11.6
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
2011 - Races held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER GEFFIN  
TRAINER C S Hunter DRIVER C S Hunter TIME 4 24.6
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (Scr) STAKE $2,500 DATE 13/02/1971
BREEDING 4g King Creed-Craven
OWNER R A McKenzie
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 12.4
INTERDOMINION TROTTERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( SKYCITY )
2011 - Races held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER PHILEMON  
TRAINER G R Taverner DRIVER M F Holmes TIME 4 19.0
HANDICAP Stand 2Miles (Scr) STAKE $2,500 DATE 13/02/1971
BREEDING 5g Sun Chief-Judear
OWNER W A Strachan & G R Taverner
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 09.6
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SASSENACH  
TRAINER J H Winter DRIVER R Young TIME 2 36.4
HANDICAP Stand 1M&Qtr (Scr) STAKE $3,000 DATE 13/02/1971
BREEDING 4h Young Charles-Leyava
OWNER A M Sellars & J H Winter
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 05.2
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER STELLA FROST  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 2 38.4
HANDICAP Stand 1M& Qtr (12yds) STAKE $3,000 DATE 13/02/1971
BREEDING 6m Thurber Frost-Stella Grattan
OWNER L H Tilson
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 06.8
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER HOLY HAL  
TRAINER D Todd DRIVER K Balloch TIME 2 35.8
HANDICAP Stand 1M&Qtr (Scr) STAKE $3,000 DATE 13/02/1971
BREEDING 7h Hal Tryax-Sandra Kay
OWNER D Keenan & J R Rodgers
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 04.6
INTERDOMINION PACERS HEATS

Current Sponsor: ( GLENFERRIE FARM )
2011 - Racing held at Alexandra Park. Mobile 2700m 2014 - Heat held at Addington
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ROYAL COUNT  
TRAINER N S Benny DRIVER N S Benny TIME 2 36.4
HANDICAP Stand 1M&Qtr (Scr) STAKE $3,000 DATE 13/02/1971
BREEDING 6h Garrison Hanover-Gold Cloud
OWNER G S & N S Benny
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 06.5
CANTERBURY PARK TROTTING CUP

Current Sponsor: ( XCM SPORT )
Originally run by Canterbury Park TC. 1963-73 Distance 1m 5f Stand: 1974-6 Distance 2600 metres Stand : 1977-2009 distance 3200 metres Stand : From 2010 2600 metres Stand. 1987 Raced in Jan & Centennial won by Tussle in Feb: 1994 Raced on 1 Jan & 31 Dec: 1983 GROUP 2: 1988-1994(Both) GROUP 3: 2003-2005 GROUP 2: From 2006 Group 3
GROUP 3: Open Trot: 2600m: Stand
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER DINGLE BAY  
TRAINER D D Nyhan DRIVER D D Nyhan TIME 3 29
HANDICAP Limit STAKE 7,500 DATE 2/01/1971
BREEDING 5m Johnny Globe-Haughty Ann
OWNER M F Mulvena
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 08.6
NEW YEAR HANDICAP (CPTC)

Current Sponsor:
1959 1 1/4 Miles: 1960 Not Run 1961-62 1 5/8 Miles: 1963-64 2 Miles: 1965 1 1/4 Miles: 1966-67 1 5/8 Miles: 1968 1 5/8 Miles Mobile: RENAMED NEW YEAR FFA: 1969-81 1 Mile Mobile: 1972 RENAMED CLARENDON FFA
Handicap Pace Run from 1959 to 1981
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER STELLA FROST  
TRAINER D J Townley DRIVER D J Townley TIME 2 02 3/5
HANDICAP Mobile STAKE $4000 DATE 2/01/1971
BREEDING 6m Thurber Frost-Stella Grattan
OWNER L H Tilson
PRESIDENTS HANDICAP (CPTC)

Current Sponsor:
1946-51 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1952 Not Run: 1953 2 Miles: 1954 1 5/8 Miles: 1955-58 2 Miles: 1959 1 1/4 Miles: 1960-62 1 5/8 Miles: 1963-64 Not Run: 1965 2 Miles: 1966 1 1/4 Miles Mobile: 1967-68 1 Mile Mobile: 1969-72 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1973 2 Miles Std: 1974-77 3200m Std: 1978-80 2600m Mobile.
Run from 1946 to 1980
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER SASSENACH  
TRAINER J H Winter DRIVER R Young TIME 3 26 1/5
HANDICAP Front STAKE $2750 DATE 1/01/1971
BREEDING 5h Young Charles-Leyava
OWNER A M Sellars & J H Winter
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07.0
STEWARDS HANDICAP/ MILE (CPTC)

Current Sponsor:
1910 1 1/2 Miles: 1911-41 2 Miles: 1942-48 1 5/8 Miles: 1949-52 2 Miles: 1951 Not Run: 1953-63 1 5/8 Miles: 1964 1 1/4 Miles: 1965 1 5/8 Miles: 1966 1 1/4 Miles: 1967-81 1 Mile Mobile
Trotting Handicap/Mile: Run from 1910 to 1981 by Canterbury Park
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER JOHNNY GEE  
TRAINER W R Butt DRIVER W R Butt TIME 2 03 3/5
HANDICAP Mobile STAKE $3000 DATE 1/01/1971
BREEDING 10h Johnny Globe-Atone
OWNER W R Butt
CROSS STAKES (CPTC)

Current Sponsor:
1944 1 1/4 Miles Std: 1945-1962 1 5/8 Miles Std: 1963 9 1/2 Furlongs Mobile: 1964 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1965 12 1/2 Furlongs Mobile: 1966 1 5/8 Mile Std: 1967-68 1 Mile Mobile: 1969-73 1 1/4 Mile Std: 1974-78 2000m Std: 1977-85 2600m Std
Run between 1944 and 1985
Year: 1971

 
Race History
WINNER ARAPAHO  
TRAINER J W Smolenski DRIVER J W Smolenski TIME 2 39 3/5
HANDICAP 12 yards STAKE $2000 DATE 1/01/1971
BREEDING 6h Bachelor Hanover-Dusky Bay
OWNER L Forde
Last 800 Last 400 MileRate 2 07 3/5


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