WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 244, 15 October 1929, Page 15

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

COMING MEETINGS.

(By ORION.)

October 19—New Brighton Trotting Club. October 19—Northland Trotting Club. October 26. 2S-Auckland Trotting Club. October 28—Oamaru Trotting Club. Oct 26. 28.—Auckland T.C November 2-Wellington Trotting Club November 20, 23-Otahuhu Trotting Club. Nov. 27, 30.— Forbury Park T.Q. Dec. 14.—New Brighton T.C. Dec 26, 28.—South Walrarapa T.C. Jan. IS.— Wellington T.C. Feb. B.—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. Feb! 22. —Kaikoura T.C.

Jewel Pointer is not doing any work on the training track, and he can be counted out of the New Zealand Cup.

Limosa was produced twice on Saturday, but on neither occasion did the Denver Huon mare get into a winning position.

J. J. Kennerley had no luck with his team on Saturday, but there may be a different story to tell at Northland this week-end.

Explosion had every chance' in the Claudelands Handicap. At all stages he was in a winning position, but he did not finish on with any dash and was beaten into third place.

Goldman went a real good race to get thi,rd in the Mark Memorial, and he was uehicky in having to' meet two such, improving young pacera as Lindbergh and. Mountain Dell.

Hori Dillon, as usual, refused to leave the mark in his engagement on Saturday> and took no part in the contest beyond losing his supporters their moliey.

The Introductory Trot at Hamilton on Saturday was one of the poorest contests seen for some time. Paradigm won by many lengths pulling up., and the others finished ?,t long intervals.

Etta Cole was a good thing beaten in both events she contested. Certainly she left her feet in each race, but even so she was kept too far back over the first mile and a half. She is proving a costly betting proposition to her admirers, but they are not likely to drop her yet awhile.

Hohoro was never a solid pacer, hut he had been working so well on the dirt track at Epsom that he looked a possibility to get in the money on Saturday. However, in both his races he tangled badly, and he is not a betting proposition.

Warplane failed to see out the two miles in the Mark Memorial The son of Man-o'-War did not get the best of a passage, but in any case he had no chance of winning. Over a shorter journey he will not be so easily settled. He will be meeting some "hot" pacers in the October Handicap, one mile, at the Auckland meeting, but they will have a job to gather him in.

Polly's Picture was unlucky in the Claudelands Handicap. At the start the daughter of Prince Child tangled and lost several lengths, but with a mile gone she had made up her leeway and was in second place behind Enawah. At the finish she was just beaten in a hard tussle with Our Nancy, behind whom F. Smith drove a well judged race.' But for losing so much ground at the start Polly's Picture would, not have been required to go so fast the first mile, and she would have had left in her that little bit necessary to pull her through.