LOGAN PARK WELL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 227, 25 September 1930, Page 17

LOGAN PARK WELL.

N.Z. CUP PREPARATION. . AIiEBON KEEPING SOUND. NOTES FROM ADDINGTON. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Mr. H. F. Nicoll, president of the New Zealand Trotting Conference, and president of the Ashburton Trotting Club, is expected to arrive from England at the end of this month. . F. Holmes is sloAvly recovering from, the accident which he met with about a fortnight ago when he was thrown from the sulky when working one of his team at Sockuurn. His knee is still very sore and it may be some time before it is right again. The pacer Glideaway, who raced successfully in the Dominion when in W. J. Tomkinson's stable, is one of the back markers in the best races in Melbourne. It is intended to have Vesuvius and the trotter Peter Fashion operated on for throat troubles. Vesuvius looked like taking high honours on the race track till his wind became affected, and Peter Fashion was a very promising trotter. Ruth Logan is in fine order at present. She raced well at the beginning of last season and then appeared to train off, but E. Carlyon has her going in her best form again. Aleron seems to be remaining fairly sound although G. McKendry is not giving the brilliant .pacer much fast -work at present. TjOgan Park was in good form'last November when he finished second to Peter Bingen in the New Zealand Cup. He had a good spell during the winter months and is in first-class order for this year's Cup preparation. The Rey de Oro pacer, from the dam of the defunct Pro Rata, is going on satisfactorily in his training work. He is a very rapid-gaited pacer who goes veil without the hopples. W. J. Tompkineon is not hurrying Wah in his training work. The Peterwah trotter has a lot of speed, and though in company he does not keep steacfy he should improve with racing.

THE MARK MEMORIAL.

The entry of 15 for the Mark Memorial Handicap at the Waikato meeting next month is sufficient to give rise to° a good contest it the most of them go to the post, but as three stables have two entries each, and five of those nominated hail from outside the Auckland province, it is possible the field will not be a very big one. Acre has the fastest record. He went 4.30 nearly two years ago, since when his form has been bad, and he will not he handicapped at anything like what he has gone, because when, he won he was on a 4.33 mark. Warplane has" gone 4.31 to a place/but just how he will be handicapped remains to be seen. He was on 4.35 and beaten out of a place at his last start (Adams Cup) at two miles, but siiice then he won two sprint races at Addington, and of course will be penalised for those victories. Brutus was handicapped on 4.35 in the Adams Cup/and ;on the limit (4.36) in the same race were Warspite (4.34 2-5), Gang Awa , (4.34), and Hal Chimes (4.38 3-5). Stoney has gone 4.31 1-5, but will be out near the front, because ie has not won a race since he came across from Australia. Glandore has not won a race for years, and there should be no 'difficulty in handicapping him. - Joy Bird has nothing to her credit at two miles, but won a mile last October in 2.13 1-5, while Dilnon "won a mile at Addington in January in 2.12 .4-5. Sunny Bob won the Burwood Handicap at New Brighton twelve months ago.and recorded 4.36 4-5. In view of their : rec6rds it would seem that the handicap will.be a fairly close one, and there will not be a great deal between the backmarkers and limit horses. Handicaps are due on Saturday.

CROWDED OUT.

It ha 3 always been a matter of regret that light harness racing conditions are apt to°crowd the really high-class performer off the track and force some of them to a etud life whilst still in all their racing prime. This will remain the case so long as horses out in front of a field remain handicapped by rules and not on form,-says "Sentinel." Still, the loss to the race may supply the golden opportunity to the breeder. One of the latest to be forced out of the racing arena is Prince Pointer, who, although brimful of racing vitality and healthy and sound as a bell of brass, has been retired to the stud. He holds a mark of 4.22, showing extreme speed over a distance; 3.16 i for a mile and a half, and 2.39 for one mile and a quarter. _. It stands as a striking tribute to Prince Pointer's speed that the table of distances and rate of speed supplied by tne Metropolitan Trotting Club for a mile and a quarter is no less than 2* seconds outside his record for the distance. In other words, Prince Pointer has travelled faster than the rate of speed provided for by official recognition. Such epeea can only be produced by perfect cornformation made by well-balanced racing machinery that can gather and hold speed over a short or long course., 1 nnce Pointer on a mile circuit would threaten the two-minute ranks.

BELLE AXWORTHY.

The appearance of Belle Axworthy b name among the entries for the straightout trot at the Waikato meeting suggested there had been a mistake,_ as the mare is a pacer. It now transpires that Belle Axworthy should have been included in the nominations for tne Mark Memorial Handicap. *

GAZA REAPPEARS,

Uaza made his reappearance on the track yesterday. The bay gelding ismce and big to be prepared for racing ahead. He has a fair turn of speed and vent 2.15 4-5 to win the Purin Handicap at the Thames last March. However he is,a very poor stayer, and a mile, * a. far as he has ever been able to go; After that distance he-etope badly.