TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16, 20 January 1926, Page 12

TROTTING.

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES. (By. ORION.) FIXTURES FOR THE SEASON. January 27, r:—invercargill Trotting Club. January 2S, 30—Forbury Park Trotting CIUD. January 3 o—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—\Van*anui Trotting Club. February 20, 24—Otaliuhu Trotting Club. February 2 6—Marlborough Trotting: Club. February 27—Taranaki Trotting Club. March 6—Waikato Trotting- Club. March 10—Manawatu Trotting Club. March 13—Northland Trotting Club. March 13—Timaru Trotting Club. March 17—Yvyndham Trotting Club. March 18, 20—New Brighton Trotting Club. March 20—Thames Trotting Club. March 27Wellington Trotting Club. April 3, 7N.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 21—Ashburton Trotting Club. May 6, B—Forbury Park Trotting Club. May 22—Oarnaru Trotting Club. June 3, s—Canterbury Park Trotting Club. June 12Ashburton Trotting Club. June 16, —Auckland Trotting Clud.

1 . J. Shaw, who secured a second at the Wellington meeting will go on to the Hawke's Bay fixture with Peter McDonald and Bittern. The Christchurch writer "Mascot"' states that Actor, by Author Dillon— j Marie Tempest, has concluded a spell j and has again been -placed in work by |B. Jarden at Irvington Lodge. j The smart pacer Imprint is stated to [ have made a complete recovery from his j recent accident. At present he is enI joying a spell, and it will be the autumn i before he is required to race again. Mr. J. B. Sheahan, owner of Machine Brick, Machine Gun and others, returned from Sydney by the Marama yesterday. His horses are being prepared at Epsom for the approaching Otahuhu meeting. By the Marama, which arrived in I Auckland yesterday, came the two-year-old Lord Lulu, by Lord Nepean, purchased recently in Sydney by Mr. J. Young, the Auckland sportsman, who races Buz Buz and Lord Nepean. B. Jarden is about to make another start on five two-year-olds. They are ■ all by Author Dillon. Among them are a half-brother to Dalmeny and Dal- ! nahine, a colt from Lady Wildwood, a ] gelding Whose dam is Too Soon, a sister ito Actor, and a gelding from Bellena. , The Australian-bred Don Douglas is , being worked by A. Brown with the hopples on. He handles the straps well, , and . with the work he is getting he i should be a better horse next time he | steps -out compared to-when he raced !at the summer meeting. The trotter, Wild Nut, which with others of C. L. Lowe's team is remaining at Epsom till after the Otahuhu meeting, -was worked out a couple of miles this morning by his owner. The Nut Ansel gelding put in one break, ' btit otherwise gave a good exhibition of trotting. , C. Rokkjer, who will possibly come across from Sydney with a' team for the Otahuhu Trotting Club's meeting, won the Trial Handicap at Epping a fortnight ago with a mare called Brown Ribbon. She started second favourite, and, getting to the front early, she won nicclv, covering the mile and a half in 3.33 £

Wilverley, a three-year-old by Machine Brick from a Huon Junior mare, which won the Goulburn Cup (1J mile), a fortnight ago, impressed those present by the manner in which he won. Although he was in receipt of a handicap from various of the candidates, be started from such an adverse position particularly wide out because of the fear of his owner-trainer, H. S. Miles, that he would not jump away well —that he was responsible for a particularly tine effort to win decisively by four lengths from More Style (C. Rokkjer), while Dunn's Plains was third.

The West Australian Trotting Cup decided during the Christmas and Xew Year holidays. at Perth was won by Lord Derby. . The ex-Xew Zealander Taraire was a hot favourite, but he broke up badly at the start and settled any chance he had. The • race was decided in three qualifying heats and a final, and Lord Derby won the final by nine yard?-, stepping a 2.17} clip, a record for the race. The value of the race was £1200. On the third night ot the carnival Taraire made some amends by winning the New Year Handicap. He put in a break just after the start, but soon settled down, and though giving away starts up to 100 yds he gradually overhauled the field to win by two yards. For the mile and three-quarters he averaged 2.17J, the same as Lord Derby in the Cup, and received a great reception on returning to the enclosure. ! HOPPLED HORSES. I | Tn the American season of 1000 two I green pacers, both five years old. started j their racing careers, 'both unhoppled, | with the wonderful records of 2min j osec. They were Minor Heir and The ! Eel, and a week after winning his first | race in 2min osec Minor Heir paced the I first heat of a race in 2min lsec, beating I the world's two heats record. Later on Minor Heir and The Eel started in the great Tennessee classic, for which there were five top-notch pacers engaged. The initial heat was a titanic struggle between the pair. Minor Heir and The Eel, and it ended in the former winning in 2min OJsec. In the second I heat there was another great battle witnessed, Minor Heir again proving vieI torious. The third heat, however."went !to The Eel in 2min s|sec. The fourth jheat was annexed by Copa-de-ora in 2min Bi=ec. And now the unfair method ]of racing, where the racing goe 5 on until j one horse wins three heats, came into I prominence. Jerry 8., whose driver had been I saving him until the champions had run I themselves to a standstill, then won the i fifth, sixth, and seventh heats and the race. The Eel closed the season with a l-r-or-l of 2min IJsec. and the noxt ye- "aking some breaks in his races. ],: - pr put the pacing hopples on to S' him. That proved the underm'n.ng of The Eel as regards reducing his record, while Minor Heir, going on "free-legged, got down to lmin 50sec in a race which constituted a world's record. There never was. nor will there ever be, a hoppled world's champion.