WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 17

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

(By "ORION")

Handicaps for the opening day of the Auckland Trotting Club's winter meeting willappear on Tuesday next.

So far Steel All has not shown up in the couple of races he has had in the Dominion. He is entered for the winter meeting in Auckland, and his engagements include the Adams Cup.

The horse impounded by the stewards after tbe last race at the Canterbury Park meeting, and which has been racing under, the name of Imperial Thorpe, but which it is" alleged is a horse that previously raced asßruce, is now located at Addington, and is guarded day and night by two men.

The New Zealand Sapling Stakes., which is being run to-day at Ashburton, is. the only two-year-old event in the trotting sport. The race was instituted 111 1919, the first winner being Doraldina. who won in 3.35 1-5. Then, for Mr. R. SI. Morten, the Christclnirch trainer J. Bryce did the hat trick, winning three years in succession, with Almriri (3.33), laurekarek'a (3:33 2-s),'and Kohara (3.32 1-5). Sir. H. F. Nicoll- had his third winner in 1925, when Nantwicli (3.39 2-5) was first home, and subsequent winners were Sir. R. Franks' Richore (3.31) and Sir. R. Fisken's Enawah (3.33). . GREAT NORTHERN DERBY. SEVENTY-EIGHT NOMINATIONS. Nominations closed yesterday for the Great Northern Trotting Derby of 1930, to be decided, at the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting. Seventy-eight horses have been npini.na.ted, aiul. the entries are from many quarters of the, Dominion. Sir.' H. F. 'Nicoll claims the extensive list of - eleven, and the othei principal nominators are' Slessrs.G. J. Barton, SI. B. Edwards and C. .E. Lindsay, with four each, and Slessrs. J. R. SlcKenzie and R. SL: Slorten, each with three. . • ; v ,