TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 194, 18 August 1931, Page 12

TROTTING.

AUCKLAND CLUB.

AUGUST MEETING.

SATURDAY WEEK'S HANDICAP.

GOLD JACKET THE BACK-MARKER

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHEISTCHURCH, this day. The following handicaps have been declared for the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting on August 29; — INTRODUCTORY HANDICAP (Trotters) of loOsovs. One :nile and a half. Limit 3.45. Black Ballin . Lt. Zanzibar ... 24 Grand Triumph Lt. Colonel Thorpe 36 Eatalo .... Lt. Efflgy 36 Moko Girl . . Lt. Kitty's Patch 36 Win Huon ... Lt. Windchat ... 36 yds. bhd. Carl Mack . . 48 Bessie Parrish 12 Parrish Belle 84 Gold Realm . 24 Marble Star . 96 MOUNT EDEN HANDICAP of 150sovs. One mile and a quarter. Limit 3.0. AI John ... Lt Stormy Mac . Lt. Bismuth .... Lt. Student Prince Lt. Cornwallis . . Lt. yds. bhd. Derby Vale . Lt. Cleao 12 Eleawah • . . Lt. Oliver Thorjie 12 Great Fame . Lt. Jersey Thorpe 12 Grey Mist . . lit. Kewpie's LadyTrlnmph Lt Triumph 12 Marg. Wallace Lt. Silver Link . 12 Mazda .... Lt Whakahihi . . 32 Modern Light Lt. Jackie Thorpe 24 Moko Chief . Lt. Myrtlene ... 24 Mountain Guide Lt. Gumdlgger . . 36 Prince Etawah Lt. Herod ..... 36 Royal Iroquois Lt Peter Lloyd . . 36 Sir Moko . . Lt Marionette . . 48 AUGUST HANDICAP of 4OOeove. Two miles. Limit 4.34. Ayrmont Chimes Lt Enawah .... 12 Hal Chimes . Lt Great Delight 12 Sunchild . . . Lt Meteor .... 12 Trustworthy Lt. Gold Treasure 24 Tumatakuru . Lt. Stanraoor . . 24 yds. bhd. Kohara . . . 108 Auto Machine 12 Gold Jacket . 120 ONEHUNGA HANDICAP of 175sovs. Two miles. Umit 4.42. Bonniewah . . Lt Master Hula 48 yds. bhd. Stoney . . . . 48 Kewpie's Guy 12 Brutus .... 60 Dan Direct . . 24 Dealer .... 60 Gold Sovereign 4S Tumatakuru . 72 Little Guy . . 48 ROYAL OAK HANDICAP (Trotters) of 175SOVS. Two miles. Limit 4.46. Valloilen ... Lt, Rol Grande . Sβ Wimmera King Lt. Etta Cole . . 72 yds. bhd. Jock Bingen . 72 Explosion ... 12 Paradigm . . 72 Repute 24 Gold Sovereign 120 MASSEY MEMORIAL HANDICAP of 200 sovs. One mile and a quarter. Limit 2.52. Bonniewah . . Lt Master Hnia . 24 Carnni .... Lt. Woodvale ... 24 Dad's Hope . . Lt. Ayrmont Chimes 36 Gaza .".... Lt. Benefice .... 36 Hohoro .... Lt. Daytime ... 36 Kewpie's Gny Lt Great Parrlsh 36 yds. bhd. Auto Machine 48 Dealer .... 12 Great Delight 48 Brutus . . . 12 Hal Chimes . 48 Dan Direct . . 24 Kohara ... 96 GREY LYNN HANDICAP of 150sovs. One mile and a half. Limit 3.34. yds. bhd. Cleao .... Lt. Herod 12 Eleawah . . . Lt Polly's Picture 12 Jackie Thorpe Lt ' Roi Grande . 12 Kewpie's Bell Dial ... 24 Triumph Lt. Lightwood . . 24 Moko Chief . Lt Prince Pedro . 24 Oliver Thorpe Lt. Jock Bingen . Sβ Prince Etawah Lt Reliance ... 36 Key de Quest Lt Some Dillon . Sβ Student Prince Lt. Gaza ....... 48 Whakahihi . . Lt Lady Yvonne . 48 ORAKEI HANDICAP (Saddle) of ICOsovs. One mile. Limit 2.20. yds. bhd. Derby Vale . Lt Gold Sovereign 12 Jersey Thorpe Lt Lightwood . . 12 Modern Light Lt. Marionette . . 12 Our Peter . . Lt Reliance ... 12 Peter Lloyd . Lt Dad's Hope . . 24 Pirate Picture I<t Cornui .... Sβ Satin Bird . . Lt Hohoro ... 36 Silver Link . Lt. Scandal .... 36 Student Prince Lt Brutus .... 36 A SOLID TROTTER. Winding up the season with two wine and a second in her last three starts, Bessie Parrish proved herself one of the best three-year-old trotters produced in Auckland for some seasons. The daughter of Guy Parrish not only displayed a good turn of speed, but she was solid with it, and being only a three-year-old a big improvement can be expected of her. The weather for some weeks past has not been favourable for training and J. T. Paul may not have the filly quite tun«d up for the meeting on Saturday week. However, Ke does not often start a horse unless it has a good chance, and if Bessie Parrish lines up backers will be prepared to support her. JUST IN TIME. A. Brown, who has Auto Machine at Epsom, and wh6 will be racing on Saturday week, must feel that the run the horse had in the Hobson Handicap at the winter meeting was really a win, although he finished out of a place. That was Auto Machine's only start since coming across from Sydney a few months back, and he started from a 4.34 mark. Since that meeting the Trotting Conference brought in a rule penalising imported horses, and had Auto Machine not been handicapped, or started at the winter meeting, his mark on Saturday week would be about 458, and not 4.33, which is his handicap for the approaching Auckland meeting. A LIKELY MAIDEN. Everything points to there being a solid field in the Mount Eden Handicap, a 3.0 mile and a quarter, to be decided at Alexandra Park on Saturday week. In the list of 30 entries are several promising pacers. Several have won races, but there are others who have yet to finish in front and one of them, Derby Vale, may take a lot of beating. This pacer was brought across from Melbourne in the latter part of last season and went into S. August's stable. He was only raced once, in a. slow class at the Waikato meeting, and though he finished outside a place, many who saw how he shaped ticked him off as a likely winner next start. S. August has a happy knack of winning races with all horses he trains, and there is not much chance of Derby Vale failing to win in his turn. WORKED YESTERDAY. The wet weather yesterday was all against training operations at Epsom, and the only horses asked to do anything were those in A. Newdick's team. Dan Direct first worked an easy mile and a half behind Satinbird, the pair being unhoppled. Later Great Fame was brought out, and Dan Direct also worked with him. Satinbird has nly been in work a few weeks, but he has rounded up quickly, and it will not take much fast work to get him into racing condition. He is due to contest the mile saddle race on Saturday week. Great Fame has done a fair amount of work, but he is still inclined to run about a lot, but this may be due in some measure to the trestles being across the clay track when he is working on the cinders. Dan Direct has done a solid preparation, and will be 1 1 fit horse on Saturday week. However, ie is far from being a good horse, and his iily two victories last season were regis:ored in weak fields, once at the Thames, uid the second time in a slow two miles jat Hawera. Condition should assist him I at the approaching fixture.

GOING TO SYDNEY. The well-known pacer Lord Nepean will be shipped to Sydney on Friday next. The bay horse was bred in Australia, but some years back was brought across to the Dominion and he has done most of his racing in Auckland. Although he won races be was never a really good horse and it is hardly likely he will be a payable racing proposition from now on. Also being shipped with Lord Nepean js a horse called White Points, but nothing is known of him. STILL WORKING. Though Koi Grande has been showing distinct signs of lameness he is still being worked by A. Newdick. The weather conditions have permitted this, and had the tracks been hard the chances are it would have been found necessary to have given the son of Childewood a spell. Once warmed up to his work he moves all right. He is entered for the principal trot, also the 3.34 mile and a half, in which he will be taking on the pacers. ONLY A RUN. So far Gold Jacket has not been asked to do anything against the watch since he came down from Whangarei a fortnight ago, and though he is engaged in the August Handicap at the Auckland meeting his chance cannot be regarded seriously. In any case the limit, 4.34, is too long for a horse of his calibre, and he will be called upon to concede an impossible start to horses on, or around about, the limit. Gold Jacket may be a starter, but his chance can be ignored until later on in the season, when the New Zealand or Auckland Cup meetings are under consideration. In the meantime, L. McMahon is giving the son of Gold Bell a quiet preparation. FAILED TO STAND. The Don Pronto horse Metal has been turned out and there is little likelihood of him being given a racing preparation again. Metal, who, strangely enough, was allowed to race in Australia, but not in New Zealand, was a nice little horse and a smart free-legged pacer, but for some time he has been more or less unsound Some little time back the ban against him racing in the Dominion was lifted, but it has been no use to his owner, as the horse, though placed in work, has failed to stand a preparation. Metal has done several seasons at the stud and this season the first of his stock should be racing. LOOKING AHEAD. It is nearly three months before the New Zealand Trotting Cup will be decided, but the Otahuhu trainer, S. Groat, is looking forward to seeing his candidate Kohara taking a prominent part in the contest for the £4000 stake. Last year the black horse won the first division in such attractive style that hie chance of winning the final was regarded as particularly good, but he disappointed and failed to get a place. Kohara has not been too leniently treated by the handicapper this season, taking a line through the handicaps of other horses, and accepting the recent works of Jewel Pointer and Wrackler as a guide, Kohara should be an the mark he raced off in the Cup last November. S. Groat remarked on Saturday last that the horse was doing well in his preparation, but there was plenty of time yet to get him ready for the big race. THREE MORE IN. The Metropolitan Trotting Clirb'e meeting which ended last -week saw three more pacers enter the ranks of New Zealand Cup eligibles and it is fairly safe to predict that when entries close for the £4000 handicap there will be a formidable list, perhaps more than desirable. The fresh horses to qualify last week were Glenrossie, who went 4.23 3-5, Satin King 4.23 3-5, and Warplane, 4.24 1-5. Glenroseie began the meeting on a 4.27 mark, Satin Kinpj on 4.30, and Warplane on 4.33. It will be seen that Warplane shattered his first day's handicap by just on nine seconds, but as he wae handicapped on the second day on 4.30 it is unlikely that J. J. Kennerley will feel inclined to enter Warplane for the Cup. Satin King -won from a 4.30 mark and he would only be giving away 12yds to be on the limit of the Cup, and the chances are his owner will adopt this course rather than Rive starts to horses in slower class races. HANDICAPPING PROBLEM. Outside the fact that certain penalties have to be imposed upon imported horses with records coming to New Zealand, nobody apparently kno-ws just -what was done 'by the conference last month regarding handicapping. It is understood that the executive was empowered to draw up a scale of penalties for the intermediate distances, and there is an impression a'broad that it wae decided no horse shall be penalised until it wins a race. If the latter is in operation it may lead to a most interesting position and one that is not likely to foe appreciated by all owners. It is almost certain that during the eeason instances will crop up where maidens race in, say, a 3.36 class and finish second, going 3.30 or better, and would etill be entitled to the front of a 3.45 class. This would be the position if horses are not to be penalised until a win is recorded. The. owners who will not appreciate this are those who raced horses during the season just closed and who have been penalised for placed performances, although the horses axe still maidens. For instance, Kewpie's Triumph and Cleao are two horses trained at Epsom that raced into a place during the season just closed, but .have not yet won a race. But they have /been penalised on their placed performances and will therefore be at a big disadvantage when meeting horses that are placed, but not penalised, this season.