WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 33, 8 February 1929, Page 13

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

SEASON'S FIXTURES.

(By ORION.)

The Peter Moko niare Betty Moko is now with. B. Edwards at Otahuhu. The bay trotter has not been right for some time, but at her best is good. The trotting mare Roez is in foal to Nelson Bingen. She has not been a very 6olid trotter in her races and it is intended to later on give her another chance. There are not a great many horses working at Marigere at present, but all that are owned out that way and are eligible to race at the Otahuhu meeting, are being kept going. T. Roe, who can prepare straight-out trotters with the best in the land, has not a very big team these times. Besides the trotters Gold Sovereign and Roez, he has the pacer Carnui in work. Dundas Boy, after racing at Addington to-morrow, is to be brought to Auckland later to contest the Otahuhu Cup. Dundas Boy has been racing well of late and looks like doing his owner further good service.

The Messrs. MoKendrick Bros, were offered a substantial figure for Choysa a fortnight ago, but the offer was not accepted. C'hoysa is in the Juvenile Handicap at Addington to-morrow and may show the judgment of the owners to be correct.

C. G. Lee may take Nelson Dillon and Tiger Salve to the Wellington meeting, although he has not definitely made up his mind. The appearance of the handicaps yesterday will assist him to come to a decision. The classes at the Otahuhu meeting do not suit Tiger Salve, as he would have to give away good starts in the trotting events.

Mr. Peacocke. owner of Gold Sovereign, went close to losing his gelding recently. The son of Gold Bell had an attack of peritonitis and was in a bad way, so much so that his owner feared it would cause the death of the gelding. However, veterinary treatment pulled him through and he has done well lately. It is possible he will be given a run at the approaching Otahuhu meeting, but his condition has suffered and he is not likely to be in a position to show his best form.

ROI L'Ot HANDICAPPED ON* 4.29. - The handicapping of Roi L'Or on 12yds, or 4.29, in the Midsummer Handicap to be decided at Addington tomorrow, will possibly lead to a very interesting position later in the season. Tiie conditions governing the Midsummer Handicap set out that the only horses eligible were those that had gone, or been handicapped to go. 4.30 or bettor. Roi L'Or was never eligible for the race, because ho was only handicapped on 4.31 on the second day at Forbury when lie won going 4.32 1-5. One would have thought that the handicapper, Mr. Paul, would have known Eoi L'Or was ineligible, and would therefore not have handicapped tlie horse; but seeing that he has officially handicapped him on 4.29 an interesting position may arise at Kaster. I have not a programme of the Metropolitan Trotting Club's Easter meeting, but I fancy that the class one day is for horses that have gone, or been handicapped to go, 4.29. If this is bo, what is the position of Roi L'Or I

THE MELBOURNE DERBY.

KORO PETER MAY GO ACROSS. All hough some few weeks back the Auckland sportsman, Mr. Geo. McMillan, decided not to send his three-\ r ear-old trotter, Koro Peter, across to Victoria to contest the Melbourne Derby, in conversation yesterday he stated that in view of the good form shown recently by the son of Peter Moko, he had reviewed the position with his trainer, R. Berry, and there was now every chance of Koro Peter going over for the Melbourne classic. It would have to be a hurried trip, as it would mean that Koro Peter would only arrive in Melbourne five days before the race, but this fact Mr. McMillan does not think would seriously affect his trotter's prospects. The Derby is run in divisions, one for pacers and one for trotters, and with Hinkler contesting the pacers' division it would appear, all going well, that New Zealand has a great chance of capturing both divisions. Both Hinkler and Koro Peter have registered times in their races this season whicb would make them look little short of certainties to win the divisions, and if they do, it be only a fitting reward for the sportsmanship displayed by their owners in sending the three-year-olds across the Tasman.