WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 77, 1 April 1932, Page 10

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES.

ONLY ONE HORSE. C. G. Lee has never had a very big team in work at the one time, and just now his worries are confined solely to oaring for the slow-class trotter _ Win Huon. The gelding- has done nothing in public up-to-date to suggest he is ever likely to be first-class, but there are plenty about not as good as he, and the first time he is fancied at a country meeting he may do his trainer a good turn.

NOT A STAYER. When raced a couple of seasons ago by G. Robertson, the El Carbine gelding Billy Carbine went several good races among the trotters without actually getting much monej>, but he had plenty of speed, and the only fault he had was that be was not a veal stayer. For some time past he has been pottered about by G. Phipps at Epsom, and at the present time the gelding looks ready to be tuned up for immediate racing. He is a solid trotter, but whether Phipps will get him to stay on better at the end of his races remains to be seen.

TROTTER AND PACER. To step out with the best trotters and finish second, and in the next race come out wit'.i the hopples en to take on the cream of the Dominion's pacers, is an unusual experience for a horse, yet this was what Wrackler was called upon to do on Wednesday at the Metropolitan meeting at Aldington. There are plenty of double-gaited horses about, but few are any good at both gaits, and Wrackler is the exception. Many horses have commenced their career as trotters and finished up going fast as a pacer, but in Wrackler's case he made a name for himself first among the pacers, and has a New Zealand Cup to his credit.' He has only to win a fast trot to be able to claim a record unequalled in the Dominion.

NOT SO GOOD. When Royal Silk won three races for J. Shaw at the Auckland Cup meeting, and followed np the treble by taking the Gold Cup at Wellington, he was hailed an a champion, but since then ho has been beaten in all his starts, and now that he is racing with the beet in the land, he is finding the class just a shade too good for him. In the fast sprint each day at the Metropolitan meeting he was solidly backed but though he showed brilliant speed, and on the final day was in the lead at one stage, he could not hold it, and throe horses headed him in the run home. Despite these defeats Royal Silk is a fine pacer, and as he can go any distance from a mile to two miles, he is bound to win in his turn.