TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 13

TROTTING.

TODD LONZIA BEATEN.

FOUR WINS ON END.

A BRILLIANT FILLY,

A L'CKLAND NOMINATIONS

The Auckland Trotting Club's spring meeting requires attention from owners this week. At 5 p.m. on Friday nominations close with the secretary, Mr. A. G 3fabee, At the same time a second payment for the Great Northern Derby falls due. BOOKED FOR WAIKATO. Trainers of horses engaged at the Waikato meeting on Saturday have not been too well favoured in the matter of weather to get their horees ready, but constant slow work has brought the horses up to racing pitch. The Waikato meeting is one of the most popular of the country fixtures and though it canjiot he expected that a profit will be reaped next Saturday the sport provided should he interesting. TODD LONZIA BEATEN. So highly had the ability of Todd Lonzia been rated that it was confidently expected the three-year-old would open his career on the racecourse with a, -win. On the limit at Methven on Saturday it seemed only a matter of him being within seconds of what •was claimed for him to win, and he was made a. good second favourite. The three-year-old went just'a fair race and finished third, but as it was his first appearance in a race, he can be depended upon to go bettor next time out. TO GO SOUTH. Present intentions are to send Jewel Pointer to fulfil his New Zealand Cup nngagement. If' back to his best form the son of Logan Pointer Mould have to be seriously considered, because there is no question of him being a real racehorse. He has gone 4.22 in a race, but the general opinion is that he is not likely to reproduce that run again. S. August is giving him a good preparation, and will in all likelihood race his

Cup i candidate sit tlie meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club this month. Jt will .probably depend upon how Jewel Pointer raees then whether he goes to • Addington for the £4000 Cup. v. a BRILLIANT FILLY. Four wins in as many starts Is Areihusa's record to date, and her per- . formances stamp her as an exceptionally smart filly. The three-year-old daughter of Wrack was responsible for a particularly tine performance on Saturday, "when she scored a handsome victory in the Methven Cup. The time recorded was not fast, and Aretlmsa ' liad only to break 4.42 to win, but the Methven track is not favourable for breaking-records, and the merit of Are : • thusa's win lies,in the*fact that in the big field she downed were many seasoned and proved useful pacers.' Aretlmsa is in both the Xew Zealand and Great Northern Derbvs, and at the moment she looks like carrying off the classics for her owner, Mr. H. F. Niccol. Like Wraeklcr, who was the champion three-year-old in his year, Aretlmsa is by Wrack.