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Colonial Quaddie "Who Are We" ?
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The term "colonial bred" is tossed around a fair bit...very hard to define as all standard breds are from imported stock but its generally agreed that "colonial sires" revolve around horses like Globe Derby, Aachen and so on and other early NZ imports featuring Light Brigade, U Scott, Grattan Loyal etc prior to the wholesale importation of large numbers of line bred USA blood like Thor Hanover, Royal Dollar, Dick Adios etc.
Now, these 4 horses are as colonial as Governor Macquarie's kids. All 4 raced almost exclusively in WA barring some occasional forays over east, all 4 raced in the late 60's/70's era, all were multiple feature race/classic winners at Gloucester Park, all were handled by the leading trainer/drivers of the day and they all won a heat of the Interdominion Championship.
Horse 1 was a classic colonial bred of the fading (now dead) Globe Derby line with his sire being a NZ champ....black as soot and possessed of brilliant speed. Country domiciled trainer. Immensely popular classic winning little horse, who of the four, had the most success over east.
Horse 2 was the the toughest of tough mares and on breeding from the now defunct Wrack line, shouldn't have been able to run out of sight. Initially country domiciled. Pacing Cup winner and a fan favourite....a dour stayer with a Kardashian rear end, and like Kim, no oil painting.
Horse 3 was described by his trainer driver, a classics winning WA Pacing Cup winning driver, as being the best horse he ever sat behind and that he was "robbed" of a least placing in the Inters Grand Final and his sire, serving only a handful of mares in his restricted private capacity, boasted an unbelievable strike rate (46 live foals for 32 winners at an average of over $10,000 stakes earned per winner when stakes were very low), being from a very old NZ Stormyway breed. So good was he that he gave horse 1 a head start and a hiding in a WA Sires Produce.
Horse 4 was also a breeding freak and should have, on breeding, been battling to win a maiden in his home town in the Great Southern region. Hailing from a hopeless performing sire, both on track and in the breeding barn (the best that can be said was that he had some Garrison Hanover Jack Potts blood) I was one of his only 10 winners, only 4 of whom broke 2.10. The most handsome of handsome horses who won his biggest feature race for NSW ace Lawrie Moulds.
If all four of them could talk, they would all tell you that "we was robbed, we should have won the Inters Grand Final....and none of them ever did. It's one for us old timers, I know, but a few of the students of GP should nail a couple, if not all.
Now, these 4 horses are as colonial as Governor Macquarie's kids. All 4 raced almost exclusively in WA barring some occasional forays over east, all 4 raced in the late 60's/70's era, all were multiple feature race/classic winners at Gloucester Park, all were handled by the leading trainer/drivers of the day and they all won a heat of the Interdominion Championship.
Horse 1 was a classic colonial bred of the fading (now dead) Globe Derby line with his sire being a NZ champ....black as soot and possessed of brilliant speed. Country domiciled trainer. Immensely popular classic winning little horse, who of the four, had the most success over east.
Horse 2 was the the toughest of tough mares and on breeding from the now defunct Wrack line, shouldn't have been able to run out of sight. Initially country domiciled. Pacing Cup winner and a fan favourite....a dour stayer with a Kardashian rear end, and like Kim, no oil painting.
Horse 3 was described by his trainer driver, a classics winning WA Pacing Cup winning driver, as being the best horse he ever sat behind and that he was "robbed" of a least placing in the Inters Grand Final and his sire, serving only a handful of mares in his restricted private capacity, boasted an unbelievable strike rate (46 live foals for 32 winners at an average of over $10,000 stakes earned per winner when stakes were very low), being from a very old NZ Stormyway breed. So good was he that he gave horse 1 a head start and a hiding in a WA Sires Produce.
Horse 4 was also a breeding freak and should have, on breeding, been battling to win a maiden in his home town in the Great Southern region. Hailing from a hopeless performing sire, both on track and in the breeding barn (the best that can be said was that he had some Garrison Hanover Jack Potts blood) I was one of his only 10 winners, only 4 of whom broke 2.10. The most handsome of handsome horses who won his biggest feature race for NSW ace Lawrie Moulds.
If all four of them could talk, they would all tell you that "we was robbed, we should have won the Inters Grand Final....and none of them ever did. It's one for us old timers, I know, but a few of the students of GP should nail a couple, if not all.
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The last two horses are a bit more contemporary.
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Yes Chariots, have mentioned the Johnsons (Ethel and Peter lived in Wembley) in past posts and Juniors lead up form prior to Addington...was a stunningly brilliant drive in the final but will leave it at that. There is still a "remembrance" party held in a Christchurch Pub every time the Inters were/are at Addington to celebrate that win...complete with memorabilia, harnessed model horse, race colours, photographs, videos etc and a fine selection on NZ's finest food and wine....by invitation only.
And Yes, Geoff was "listed' as Red Vicars trainer for a time and took him to Queensland but he "officially" was trained by Vic Murphy for that Interdominion series.
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