TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 11

TROTTING.

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

(By ORION.)

FIXTURES.

j.ntiarv 28 —Forbury Park T.C. iJnuari 28—Hawke's Buy Trotting Club, ianaary 80— Poverty Bay Trotting Club, \Sr 31—-Nelson Trotting Club. iSSraan 1-Nelson Trotting Club. February 4-Chevoit Trotting Club.

The trotter .Nigiiborn broke down re 'It, and is now spelling in the pad jock.

The Hawera tup in April will be ivorth £600, and is for horses who can ,-0 4.42 or better. The club is distriM'ing £4030 during the two days.

Glancing through the programme for lie Hawke's Bay meeting to-morrow, the most interesting item may turn out to be the exhibition mile to be given by Jewel Pointer.

Homelight, who is engaged in the Dash Handicap at Nelson, a short time back had the reputation of being able • 0 go very fast, but he never showed it in his races.

J. Bryce will be represented at the Nelson meeting next Tuesday by Tumatakura and Bankhead. The former is a three-quarter brother to Kohara, and Bankhead is a brother to Cardinal Logan.

Before leaving Epsom for the Hawke's Pay meeting, Carnui was pacing rather well for a novice. He did a lot of work In company with Speed King and Halgana, and might have more than an outpide chance in the Novice Handicap.

If Dillon Huon could be relied upon to-morrow to reproduce the run he gave when he ran second to Padlock at the Auckland meeting, he would have the opposition in the Farewell Handicap at Hastings at top if they are to have any chance of winning.

The Bingana mare Halgana is well engaged at Hastings to-morrow, and has been accepted for in three races. She (s not more than a moderate at present, but should be good-enough to make a good showing among the weak oppoaition she is now asked to meet.

The Greymouth and Inangahua Trotting Clubs have received permit? to hold a combined meeting at Greymouth on February 25 and 27, and this fixture, which will take place during the West Coast Jubilee festivities, promises to be one of the most successful ever held on the Coast.

Before going to Hastings, Leo Mauritius was trottinsr solidly in what work had been allotted him at Epsom, but it nay be that he is not forward enough to run out a solid two miles just yet. Still, those he is meeting are a very poor lot, and he has only four opponents to meet each time.

The New Zealand Trotting Association has considered the question of allowing broadcasting at trotting meetings, and decided that permission would not be given to .broadcast the meetings unless' a fee was paid in each case. It is proposed to confer with the New Zealand Baciflg Conference to get it to follow the same course. A suggestion is afoot that all fees so collected shall be devoted to help the struggling country clubs.

Cardinal Logan is enjoying a spell in the paddock, and yri 11 not be taken in Bind for some time to come. Hose Logan in the same stable is sore, and A. Hendriksen will for the next month or go .be fully engaged in educating a number of young stock. His stallion, Msj.Guy, who has done a good season at the stud, is leaving stock of high quality, and Hendriksen will be putting the tackle on several of these during the next few weeks.

Hcyal Serene, a recent winner at Asha very Pr° mis ing filly trained at Lauriston. She is bred to go fast, for her sire, Realm, now »t the stud in New South Wales, was a very brilliant performer with. a mile 2.3 4-5. Realm, in turn, was bj: Kibbonwood, a champion in his day, from Levuka. Realm was at the stud but a brief time in New Zealand, but in bnadowland, a New Zealand Derby winner, a?d Royal Serene, he sired two useful performers.

Andy Sheahan, the well-known Vietonan trotting reinsman, is doing well H W fi Außtralia - He is stm near the top of the winning drivers' list, and was • e times durin g the recent mth Christmas and New Year carnival. Sbeahan has one of the largest strings 'St™™* ™ Perth ' aD <l frequently has Maed to the horses under his care. Recently he received from Sydney the wellJ" P® rfonner Stroller, who has raced Sout h Wales and New Zealand, and has now been purchased by a West Australian sportsman. While in Victoria, e an did most of the driving for fi° Park stud > the property luvijf* f' • Hunter - When that estabuiiunent was converted into a galloping ■«» I* , trotting was relinquished by r. Hunter, Sheahan turned his attenSX? . W f ßt Australia, and success has «b*2?v remarkably. He has «e*eral Northwood Park-bred trotters T J ,_,_ ( P acerß , ' n his team, including tf. P i'v ~ he ex P e<; ted would win Trotting Cup, and Northwood a three-year-old who is regarded « a potential Derby winner. PACER DROPS DEAD Wlulst being worked on Tuesday morning at Addington the pacing SnPrf tin Prince9S . dropped of a «•! 6SS ' Was finishing a work-out .. a a ®! le and a-quarter, but when about J 8 S er of a mile from the winning •Hv ? seen to sta^er - She graduthe !l7 f l P U - til half a furlon g from andj her journey, when she fell her ® was bein S driven by t£ Z" er l ra i - Mn W - Smith, at hut ® atin Princess was a speedy iwm 7 Z BoWn u m c are ' b y Prince Alert been r««; ** y Satin wood, who has racing for some years. HAWKE S BAY CUP. • AT HASTINGS TO-MORROW. « f th f, l rottin S meetings included be VM + 1 0f the Nor th Island will Bay TJ?- morT .r,' when the Hawke's amm«i e Club will bring off the ol at Haßtin « B - Although H #l v*P er the acceptances show good Darn* 1° e °* *he events, a careful Jwtisal of the list showj that there art

actually only 40 horses, and the majority are paid up for in two and very often three races. However, it may be that the e\ ents will provide keen contests. To review the respective events would mean that one would resort to sheer guesswork, and such is unsatisfactory; therefore it is perhaps sufficient to confine any comment to the Cup. In this there are only eight acceptors, and they do not make a good lot, the backmarkers, Tui Wildwood and Wild Lad, neither of whom represent class, being set to give away 72yds. They are not likely to be in great demand, despite the fact that Tui Wildwood is a recent winner. Of the four on the limit, Peter Grattan may be the best. Lady Barrington won a small race at South Wairarapa, but she is none too reliable, and Zella and Kevinbrae have done nothing to make either look a good thing. Speed King is a plodder who can go two miles if the pace is not too fast in the early part, and the chances are he will be thereabouts at the end. The favourite will probably be Asset, but even she has not shown herself to be a good one.