WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 129, 3 June 1930, Page 13

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

SEASON'S FIXTURES.

(By ORION.)

May 31, June 3— Canterbury Park T.C. May 31, June 3— Hawke'S.Bay T.C. June 7—Ashburton T.C.

Mussolini, the English pacer recently imported by F. Smith, is jogging about daily. It is not likely he will be ready to give of his best until next season.

Benefice is doing light exercise. Ibe bay mare has a lot of speed but she gives the impression that she will always do best when the tracks are hard.

A. Newdick is not being hard upon Dan Direct. The roan pacer is at the track doing only jogging daily. So far he lias been a disappointment, a third place being his best performance since he came from England.

The Auckland Trotting Club lV hoping to get a permit to hold a meeting in aid of the unemployed. Should peimission be granted it is expected the fixture will take place in August.

There is plenty of time yet to get Gold Jacket ready and at present DMcMahon is merely pottering about with the dual- Auckland Cup winner: Gold Jacket is a rare stayer and his owner is now keen on winning the next New Zealand Trotting Cup with him.

J. J. Kennerlev had two barrels in the Paparua Handicap on Saturday and both went well,' The Shrew finishing second and Vendome third. The winner turned up in the favourite Muriel de Oro who liad only to go 4.31 from a 4.32■ mark to get the biggest portion or tlie stake. Muriel dc Oro is one of the smartest fillies seen out this season and Saturday's win made her fourth victory since August last. She is y Uey de Oro, out of a Hal McKinney male, and is trained by F. G. Holmes.

To go 4.36 2-5 off a 4.43 mark is no meaq effort and this its what Hose Audo accomplished when winning the Aviation Trot on Saturday at the Canterbury Park meeting. The aged brown daughter of Great Audubon— Rosalie has raced particularly well this season and has three wins, two seconds and two thirds to her credit.

W. Clifton worked his pair of chestnuts, The Abbey and Explosion a mile and a half yesterday morning. The track was holding and fast time was not sought. The pair jumped off at the two miles peg and paced the first mile in 2.38, but the next half, to the half mile peg, they covered in 1.12.

Accounts of the race show that Native Prince, though beaten out of a place on Saturday in the mile and a quarter at Addington, showed a rare daeh of speed and in the straight he was putting in great work but the handicap was beyond him. Native Prince is a, better horse now than he has ever been.

There is a history attached to the success of Pronto's Lass in the President's Unhoppled Handicap at the meeting of the New South Wales Trotting Club on Monday of last week. The mare in her younger days was a fairly good winner, but developing respiratory trouble, she fell so faT from grace that she was sold at a very low figure to P. Davis. The new owner decided to have her tubed, and the operation had been completed only a few days when he had recommended to him another operation. The tube was thereupon removed, the wound healed, and Pronto's Lass again went under veterinary hands. That was about six months ago, and on the several occasions on which the mare has run in recent weeks, she has displayed more j stamina.

The running of Silver Heel in the first division of the Flying Handicap at the meeting of the New South Wales Trotting Club on May 26 led to the disqualification of the mare and her trainerdriver, S. A. Patterson, for six months. The owner, Mrs. I. G. Patterson, who was not present, is'to be called to show cause why she, too, should not be disqualified. Silver Heel was thil'd favourite for the race, Nan's Derby, and Silver Ray sharing favouritism. The three were- accorded solid support by the publiQ. The race, early developed into' a match between the two favourites, Nan's Derby soon left Silver Ray behind, establishing a lead of several lengths at the end of the firs? half-mile. With two furlongs to be covered, Nan's Derby was quite twelve lengths in front, and Silver Ray was tiring. The pace set early had caused the field to be strung out, but in the finish, although Lyndhurst secured second place, Silver Heel was doing better than all except the winner.