TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 189, 12 August 1925, Page 15

TROTTING.

FIXTURES. August 14— N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. August 18, ie—Forbury Park Trotting Club. American Fleet Meeting. August 22—Auckland Trotting Club. American Fleet Meeting. September 12—Tlmaru Trotting Club. October 3, 7—Wellington Trotting Club. October 17, 21—Auckland Trotting- Club. October t'6—Oamaru Trotting- Club. October 24, 26—Greymouth Trotting Club. October 31—Tβ Aroha Trotting Club. November 10, 12, 13 —N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. November 20, 21—Nelson Trotting Club. November 21, 25—Otahuhu Trotting Club. November 27, 28, or December 5, 6— Forbury Park Trotting Club. December s—Walkato Trotting Club. December 12, 10 —New Brighton Trotting Club. December 26—Gore Trotting Club. December 26—Ashburton Trotting Club. December 26, 28 —Westport Trotting Club. December 26, 28—South Walrarapa Trotting: Club. December,30 —Inangahua Trotting Club. December 30—Winton Trotting Club. December 28, 30, 31—Auckland Trotting Club. 1920— January 2—Westland Trotting Club. January 5, 6—Greymouth Trotting Club. January 16—Wellington Trotting Club. January 22, 23—Invercargill Trotting Club January 28, 3 o—Forbury Park Trotting Club. January 30—Hawke's Bay Trotting Club. February 12—Poverty Bay Trotting Club. February 13— N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. February 19 —Kaikoura Trotting Club. February 19, 22—Wanganui Trotting Club. February 20, 2 4—Otahuhu Trotting Club. February 26—Marlborough Trotting Club. February 27—Taranakl Trotting Club. March 6—Walkato Trotting Club. March 10—Manawatu Trotting Club. March 13—Northland Trotting Club. March 13—Timaru Trotting Club. March 17—Wyndham Trotting Club. March 18, 20—New Brighton Trotting Club. March 20—Thames Trotting Club. March 27—Wellington Trotting Club. April 3, 7 —N.Z. Metropolitan Trotting Club. April 3, s—Hawera Trotting Club. April 17—Ellesmere Trotting Club. April 17—Cambridge Trotting Club. April 22—Waimate Trotting Club. April 24—Ashburton Trotting Club. May 6, B—Forbury Park Trotting Club. May 22—Oamaru Trotting Club. June 3, s—Canterburys—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. June 12—Ashburton Trotting Club. June 19, 23—Auckland Trotting- Club. January 1, 2—Canterbury Park Trotting Club.

The trotting season for 1925-26 opens to-morrow at Addington.

Latest advices from the South credit Mlnton Derby with being all right again.

Imprint, nominated ror the Auckland Fleet Meeting, is owned and trained in Nelson.

The American-bred Morganza R. Is not expected to keep her engagements at Addington.

Handicaps Tor the Auckland Fleet MeetIng will be declared by Mr. F. \V. Edwards on Saturday next.

Locanda Mac Is pottering- about, and will later be seriously tested to see whether he will stand a preparation.

Track watchers at Addington are ticking George Grarton and King Dillon off as a pair likely to go well In saddle races.

Locally trained horses competing on Saturday week are hardly likely to be at concert pitch, and they will have to be fortunate to get any of the big- prizes.

Harold Burwood is credited with being one of the most Improved horses in training:, and it is expected he will be amongst the stake winners at Addington.

That good pacer Sheik has been going In great style In his work, and a few mornings ago was responsible for a particularly fine effort over a mile and a-half.

The small but speedy straight-out trotter Lady Nan, .which is owned In Palmerston North, Is now being prepared for future engagements by R. C. Alexander. Planet, which was brought across from Australia last week by J. Bryce, Jun., has been handicapped on 72yds in the Tennessee Handicap at the Forbury Park Club's Fleet Meeting. ir Waikaha is worth anything like the price reported to have been asked for him, backers are not likely to let him go neglected when he steps out in the Governor's Handicap on Saturday week. Much interest will centre in the performances or Glenelg- this week. Last season the chestnut proved himself the best three-year-old in the Dominion, and the prediction was freely offered that he would reach High company this yeur. or the ten pacers nominated ror the Free-for-All at the Auckland meeting- on Saturday week no less than eigtu hail from the South Island. This means that if they are all brought up it will cost the A.T.C. £!M0 for expenses, as the club has decided to pay £30 towards the expenses of each starter coining from south of Cook Strait. The Auckland entrips are All Bell and First Carbine, neither of which can have much chance. One of the most promising horses on Sydney trotting tracks is the nve-year-old gelding Flying Machine. At the Fleet Meeting, however, he made a couple of bad mistakes, and, as a result, lost the first division of the Admiral Robison Handicap at Epping. He was a hot ravourite, but met with trouble soon alter the start, and brokfe. O'Shea got him into his stride again, and, moving in great style, he ranged alongsido Torpedo Huon in the straight the last time, but a couple of strides from the post, wlicn it looked as though ho would win, he broke again. Then, as though by way of showing the ypung 'un how to do it. Machine Brick, sire of Flying- Machine, came out in the second division of the same race, and, with a wonderful run from isoyds behind, beat Stoncy by a head. Machine Brick gave a splendid exhibition, and it was in the last round that his sweeping strides began to tell on the rest, states the " Sun." With remarkable dash he passed all except Stoney as though they were standing still, but just before the straight was entered it appeared as though he had spent himself. Once *n the stretch, however, he gathered speed again, and in a thrilling finish beat Stoney in the last stride, and, incidentally, clipped 7* seconds off the race record.