TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 16

TROTTING.

PERTH SEASON OPENED.

SUCCESS OF NEW ZEALANDER.

MAXEGIN TO RACE AGAIN

CAN HE STAY ? ■ The name Eureka Boy is on the tip of nearly every enthusiast's tongue, the big ! question being, Can he stay"' (says a C'hristchurch writer). Since his two hollow victories at • the August meeting Eureka Boy has trained on exceptionally well, and at New Brighton, where he lives and does his work, there is a unanimous opinion that he will stay two miles. His trainer shares that viewpoint, but until the gelding is tried over the distance nothing definite will be known. g ANOTHER TRIAL. It is J. Bryce's intention to put the American trotter Maxegin into work. Maxegin is a very capable trotter and a real racehorse. He will be given a course of jogging work," and if he pleases his trainer his preparation will be completed. DEATH OF AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. The death is reported from America of Mr. Robert A. Smith, who was well known in New Zealand through having brought to this country the horses Brigand, Drusus, Early Harvester, Jack Potts, Judge Hancock, The Triumph and Worthy Bond. NEVER BETTER. With both front legs heavily bandaged for the purpose of keeping windgalls in check, the champion, Harold Logan, is in wonderful order to undertake the new season's campaign. One would be safe in stating that Harold Logun was never more robust or in better health. THROWN OUT. The pacing gelding Avenger lias been thrown out of work by F. Holmes and it is doubtful if he will be trained again. He was foaled in 1922 and is a half-brother to Radley, Aristotle, Anthelope and Nellie t Audubon. Last year he started in seventeen races and failed to get a place.. It would seem that Avenger has seen his best days on the race track. I POPULAR WITH BREEDERS. ' Although the New Zealand-bred stallion Prince Pointer only arrived in Hobart in September, 1931, he must have made an immediate appeal to breeders, as fortythree mares were sent to be mated with him Inst season. Of that number it is definitely known that forty-one are in foal. In October, 1931, Prince Pointer won the championship at the Koyal Show, and he is now being prepared for the 1932 event. LIKES SPRING. Lindbergh is a horse of seasons. He seems to do much better in the spring than at any other time of the year. It will be remembered that he won the first division of the New Zealand Trotting Cup I and failed to lead a field home after that. In the meantime he has qualified to be let I out in the handicap, nnd. although lie won J the first division of the Trotting Cup from ! ii 4.26 mark last year, the fact of his being ilet out on to 4.27 prevents him from taking part in the big event, should it be for horses assessed to do 4.26 or better this year. KEMPTON AS A PACER. Since he last sported silk, and that wus at Greymouth in January last, an attempt has been made to convert Kempton to the pacing gait. Bred by Mr. H.'1 ,, . Nicoll in 1922, Kempton made his debut as a trotter, and at that gait he won several races. Early in his career he was purchased by Mrs. E. Berryman, and in the Wellington lady's colours he did really well. It Iβ . three years since Kempton won a race, his last success being in the Kaitoke Handicap at Wellington on January 19, 1929. Never a good stayer, although he won a Rowc Trotting Cup, and as there are few fast classes for trotters over twelve furlongs, his trainer endeavoured to persuade the son of Nelson Bingen and Pearl Pointer to pace. He acted all right in hopples, but the best he could go was a mile in 2.19. so out into the paddock he went. The holiday has benefited him, and in all probability he will be put into training and tried again at his original gait. NEW ZEALAND SUCCESS. The 1932-33 season was opened at Perth a fortnight ago, when the principal event, the August Cup,' was won by the New Zealand-bred gelding Whakuku, from six yards behind. Included in the field was Logan Park, whose mark was 96yds, and other New Zealanders in Trenand and Tommy Dillon. Trenand was responsible for most of the pace, but Whakuku was always handily placed and he scored by half a yard from the favourite, Percy's Son. Logan Park covered the mile and a half at a 2.14% rate, but he finished well back. Whakuku (Great Audubon— General Mac mare) arrived in Perth early in 1927 in the : ownership of Mrs. H. D. O'Brien, of. New Zealand. He, was sold Bennett, then to F. Lee, and later to C. J. Clarke. The eleven-year-old gelding, a fine-looking chestnut, has now won at his last two starts. Eighty-six starts for twelve firsts (twfee doing the hat trick), ive seconds and eight thirds is his West Australian record.. His driver won first honours in the reinsmen's competition last season. EARLY PROSPECTS. Although the New Zealand Trotting Cup will not be decided for another three months, the prospects of several horses are already being discussed (says a Christchurch writer). Red Shadow showed wonderfully good form at the recent Addington meeting and lie has gained many friends by his sparkling displays, but one who at the same meeting drew marked attention to his prospects was Kingcraft, who will be making his fourth attempt to win the rich event. He was successful in winning a first division of the race in 1929. Kingcraft appears to have lost all that nervousness he once showed at the post, which was responsible for his being beaten in more than o.ne important race, and he has now developed into a racehorse of the highest class. Age and experience have played their parts well and Kingcraft at eight years will probably produce better and more reliable form than he hae done to date. He was sired by Quincey and is easily the best of that horse's stock, but a glance through the lines of his maternal ancestry is sufficient to show from where he inherits a great deal of his quality. His dam, Colene Pointer, is by that noted sire of producing mnres, Logan Pointm , , and is from Queen Cole, who Was by King Cole from the imnorted Norice, whose name is counled with those of the best nroducing matrons the Dominion has ever known.