TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 286, 3 December 1930, Page 16

TROTTING.

THE SPORT IN PERTH. FREE ADVICE CHANGES OWNERSHIP. EPSOM NOTES. THE AUCKLAND CUP MEETING. Owners are given another reminder that entries for all handicap events to be decided during the three days of the Auckland Trotting Club's summer meeting close on Friday at 5 p.m. with the secretary, Mr. A. G. Mabee. RETURNED TO OWNER. . The trotting mare, Neleon Girl, has left A. Julian's team and has gone to her owner, Mr. W. Johustcne. Nelson Girl was just a moderate, but she managed to pay her way, although there was never any promise that she would reach high society. ■ NOT TOO SOUND. Logan's Pride, who, all going well, will have plenty of admirers for the Auckland Cup, is still favouring one of his legs a little, and it may be that his trainer, F. Cotton, will have some anxious moments keeping the Logan Pointer gelding on hie legs for the Cup, Logan's Pride Is a smart pacer at any distance, but ho will have to do a solid preparation to run out the two miles at the pace the Cup will be decided at. CLASSES TO SUIT. The Author Dillon mare, Nella Dillon, has not raced up to expectations so far this season, but on more than one occasion she has settled her prospects by failing to go away right. She ie in the beet of condition and doing steady exercise, and as the , classes at the approaching Cup meeting will suit her nicely it is possible she will show her true form then. At the same time the opposition will be the strongest she will meet during the season. STONEY AT BRIGHTON. The*grey gelding Stoney, is entered for the New Brighton meeting and is handicapped on 4.37. Unless he does considerably better in the South than he did in hie races in Auckland he will become something of the- joke he was with racegoere up this way.

FREE APVICE SOLD. The Messrs. McKendrick Bros, have disposed of Free Advice to Mr. G. J. Barton, and the mare will remain in W. Tomkinson's stable. Free Advice is handicapped rather tightly in sprint races, and Mr. Barton is not going to find it an easy matter to get his purchase money back. However, Tomkmson has been training the daughter of Blue Mountain King for some time and no doubt it was on his advice that Mr. Barton purchased her. TROTTING AT PERTH. There are forty meetings every year at Perth, while the F.remantle Club, which also racee at night, conduct twelve meetings. Fremantlo is about half an hour's run from Perth, and meetings at the Port are well patronised. Recently the latter club conducted its second anniversary meeting. The chief event was the Eremantle Cup of 200sovs (2.23 and better), a mile and a half. The race was contested in twojieats and a final owing to the large number of nominations. A 12-year-old mare In Mylandra, who was third in tho second heat, won the final at a 2.20|- rate. Mylandra has a New South Wales record of 2.18 A. WEST AUSTRALIAN CUP. West Australia's most important event, the. Trotting Cup of 1600sovs, will be decided in two heats and a final over a mile and a half on the second of the Christmas carnival at Brennan Park, on Friday, December 26. The race is restricted to horses with a placed performance of 2.18 or better, being reduced from 2.19 or better. The first West Australian Trotting Cup (m 1914) was for horses of the 2.35 and better class. The stake was 500sovs, and it was won by Maori Speed, whose offspring have done well in minor events in West Australia recently. The New South Wales-bred Sheik, winner of a New Zealand Cup, is the backmarkcr for the Cup on 78 yards behind (a 2.13J mark). He competed off a 2.15J mark last year and finished fifth in the final going at a 2.121 an improvement of half a second on his time in the first heat. Taurekareka, who won last year at a 2.12J rate from a 2.16 mark, has been allotted 72 yards behind this year (a 2.14 mark). Taurekareka is the only horse that has stepped at such fast time as.-2.12J in a place in standing start races at Perth, and he holds the State record for a mile and a half. Both Sheik, and Taurekareka are receiving solid,preparations for thenengagements.