TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 16

TROTTING.

EPSOM ACTIVITIES. PREPARING FOR JUNE. OUT SPELLING. Two useful performers in F. Smith's team in Modern Light and Guid Hairst are at present on the idle list. The pair have done well for their trainer this season, | and it is not proposed to race them at the winter fixture, j A SOLID PACER. Prince Etawah has won two races, but he cannot be termed a good one. .However, what stands to A. Shepherd* chestnut is his reliability, rnd he does nothing wrong. Ho is again doing regular work after enjoying a short spoil, and sh° ukl | be ready to show hia best torm at tlie Auckland meeting next month. ALL ACCEPTED FOR. The three Auckland horses entered for the Hawke's Bay Trotting Club's meeting, Eleawah, Mabtio Herbilwyn and Home Brew, have all made the acceptance. Eleawah has won races, but the two others are maidens, and figure on the limit of their races. if any of the three is to win a race at the meeting it may be Home Brew. A USEFUL TEAM. W. Willetta is busy these days attending to the requirements of a useful team. Kow pie's Guy, who won the Te Aroha Cup, is looking well, but she is on a tight mark now. Oliver Thorpe, a consistent pacer, is being prepared for the meeting next month, as alao is Wargpitc, a lairly speedy horse, but not the smoothest ot pacers. The moderate Nathaniel is another being kept going by Willetts. BOTH DOING WELL. E. Kennerley will have Real Girl and Peter Pirate racing at the winter meeting. Both pacers arc doing well in the little work required of them, and should be at their best ucxt mouth. Peter Pirate has not had a race since the Christmas meeting, but he has done a lot of work recently, ' and is hitting out in hie best style. He is a good horse in heavy going, and will take I his place in the Adams Cup field, a race in which he finished second last year. PARRISH BELLE. C. G. Lee is working Parrish Belle steadily and regularly. The speedy mare has not done a great deal of racing, all things considered, but when at her beet she has shown a fine turn of speed. Each time she has raced on a heavy track she has failed, and the chances are the conditions will be against her at the wintei meeting next month. Win Huon, who raced very consistently on the country circuit, is being spelled till next season. IN LIGHT WORK. The chestnut pacer Little Guy, who joined F. Smith's team a few weeks ago, is doing only the lightest of exercise at present. The son of Sir Guy possesses a fine turn of speed, but up to the present he hae not been other than a useful performer. When he was first brought to Auckland a couple of seasons back after recording several smart performances in the class ho was then competing in, he was placed in J. T. Paul's stable at Mangere. That astute trainer gave the pacer plenty of opportunities, but the liorse disappointed, and was later transferred to R. A. McMillan's stable. For McMillan Little Guy won a race or two, but was never really good, and it remains to be seen how Smith fares with the chestnut. TROTTERS BARRED. Bookmakers—and there axe hundreds of them in New Zealand, despite the Gaming Act—have never been keen on accepting money on trotting races, and apparently the same sta.te of affairs obtains in Sydney. In the Sydney "Sportsman" of last week it is mentioned that any owner of a trotter or pacer desiring to have a good bet on hia horse must place his money on the totalisator or accept cramped odds from the bookmakers on the course. At one time it was possible to place a commission with the starting price betting shops in the city and suburbs, but that day has passed, and the starting price merchants will not now do business on trotting meetings. MISFORTUNE RECOMPENSED. While C. E. Lindsay was unfortunate in being unable to start his two-year-old filly Mary Harvester in the Selma Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday, owing to her late arrival and lack of time for inspection by the stipendiary steward, he was compensated later in the day when another member of his stable, in Harvest Time, won the Rakaia Handicap. He may have been a little lucky in winning, as Ainrworthy appeared to have his measure fifty yards from the post. Ainrworthy, however, seemed to bore over on to Harvest Time, and had to bo checked and straightened up again. Harvest Time has now won two races, his first success being at the ■ Rangiora meeting last October over a mile and five furlongs. He was beaten over a mile at Cheviot, "where he began very badly, but his form in going 4.38 1-5 Trom a 4.57 mark augurs well for bis future prospects over a distance. BIG DROP IN STAKES. I METROPOLITAN CLUB'S DECISION. : CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The committee of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has approved of their programme for the August meeting. With the big drop in revenue a substantial reduction has been made in the prize money. Every race during the three days 'hae, been made to bear a share of the saving, the total stakes for 1 the meeting being 595050v5, compared '■ with 10,300aovs last year.