TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 220, 16 September 1932, Page 10

TROTTING.

WAIKATO MEETING. Owners who intend being represented at the Wuikato Trotting Club's meeting, to be held on October 8, are conversant witli the programme o£ events drawn up. The, fact they should now remember is that nominations close on Tuesday next with the secretary, Mr. T. G. Reynolds, Hamilton, or Mesers. Blomficld Auckland, jp OPPOSITION TO BARRIERS. Leading American trotting stables and trainers are still standing out against the use of starting barriers. The public wants the barriers, being tired of the number of false starts that occur without them. At the Buffalo Grand Circuit meeting a not was only prevented by a squud of police. Enraged backers of a horse, whose chance had been spoilt by the bad start, rushed the judge's box. In a trotting event Ankabar won the first heat in 2.3%. *or the second heat he was favourite, but the starter sent them away when Ankabar was a long wav behind, nnd even then he finished second. It was the same in the third heat, when he was again fwconcl. d no crowd was by this time on its toes, and a riot looked imminent. The younger generation of trainers and drivers want the barriers, but the millionaire owners of the big stud farms and racing studs, which are run bv old-time horsemen, dominate the association*. Trotting barriers are as sure to come as galloping, but the old-timcis are making a hard fight ot it.