TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 244, 14 October 1932, Page 10

TROTTING.

TROTTER'S BONA FIDES. INQUIRIES BEING MADE. TRACK TIMES BEING CONSIDERED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Inquiries are being made concerning the bona-fides of a trotter that raced at a recent country meeting in Canterbury. Officials have interviewed certain persons. These have been asked whether they could identify the horse concerned. The times recorded on the track enter into the investigation. WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES. PRODUCED A BAY. A grey daughter of Ruby Huon has produced a colt foal to Dan Direct. With the dam a grey and the sire a roan it was expected that the foal would take after one or other in colour, but it is a bay. FIXED PENALTIES WANTED. The vagaries of handicappers were discussed at the last meeting of the Canterbury Owners' and Breeders' Association, and numerous instances of inequitable treatment were cited. It was decided to continue the association's agitation for fixed penalties, and the abolition of handicappers.

PROTEST ENTERED. At the annual meeting of the Westland Racing Club a letter was read from Mr. J. Noble, handicapper to the club, stating that he had been refused a handieapper's license by the New Zealand Trotting Association. The secretary of the club had written to the association protesting against its action, and it wae decided to send to the Minister of Internal Affairs a spirited protest and a request that ho be asked to give effect to the desire of the club, that Mr. Noble's license be renewed. A GOOD PRICE. The supporters of Homeward received a much better price than they could have anticipated when the daughter of Happy Voyage won the President's Handicap. On ipaper the race looked a money for nothing proposition, but rumoui's of a fast trial recorded by Pukemiro and reports that Rector was a pacer above the ordinary, saw Homeward start «econd favourite. S. August stepped her out well, and then steadied her to allow Margaret Wallace to make play in front to the home turn, where Homeward took the lead and went on to win nicely. Homeward is not a champion by a long; way, and she does not look like winning many more races unless August continues to work further improvement in her.

A DISAPPOINTMENT. Prior to going to the Waikato meeting the Great Audubon gelding Pedlar had been working so well at Epsom that he was confidently expected to win one' of his two engagements. In bis first start, the Frankton Handicap, he fell after going a little over a furlong. Hβ did not appear to have suffered by the fall, and in the Claudelande Handicap later in the day he was again made favourite. This time he had an uninterrupted run, but he was never pacing smoothly, aad his hopples appeared to be too short. Although in a handy position, he failed badly in the straight, and a ipoor fourth in a weak field was the beet he could do. His efforts were very disappointing, but it may not oe wise to couni him out yet awhile.