TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 91, 19 April 1933, Page 11

TROTTING.

THE HAWERA MEETING. AUCKLANDERS' GREAT INNINGS. Auckland-trained and owned horses had a great innings at the Hawera meeting and almost swept the board. The now Takanini trainer, F. J. Smith, continued his run of successes, and with four horses won four races. Raider secured a double, Guid HaLrst and Nell Vollo each won a race, while Guid Hairst and Nell Vollo also secured place money. The other member of the team, Cracker, won place money. Smith is having a remarkable run this season, and with his good team will gather in many more races. Mm Bells won a double on the opening day, and thus made amends for her previous disappointments this season. Worthy Chief won on the second day and Kohewah won a double, while Te Mahanga won once, and, all told, Auckland horses won ten races. NOT WANTED. Yesterday at Hawera a sale of trotting stock was held, most of the offerings being horses submitted by Mr. J. R. Corrigan. Nobody apparently wanted trotters or pacers, and practically nothing offered was sold. ROTORUA.MEETING. For the first meeting of the newlyformed Rotorua Trotting Club, a non-tote fixture, to be held on May 20, a programme of six events has been drawn up. Nominations close on May 9 at 5 p.m. with the secretary, Box 105, Rotorua. The present handicapping system will not apply at this meeting. A GOOD TROTTER. Each time Louis Bingen has been asked to begin from in front of the crowd at Addington he has gone to a break, but has left both times when started in two-mile races, the starting post for those events being at the back of the course. His performance of winning the Autumn Handicap on Saturday was a high-class one, and augers well for important victories later on. His record this season is six firsts, three seconds, and one third out of thirteen starts. Louis Bingen is by Nelson Bingen from Gold Queen, the dam of Roi I'Or.

ABOLITION OF HANDICAPPERS. At a meeting of the _ Canterbury Owners' and Breeders' Association it was decided to send a representative, the president, Mr. G. R. Hunter, to wait upon the sub-committee of the Trotting Conference in charge of _ handicapping, and advocate fixed penalties and the abolition of handicappere. The president was instructed to draw particular attention to the continued vagaries of different handicappers now acting. WILL WIN AGAIN. - It is hard to say how fast N.icoya will go when he is pressed, but after hjs easy victory in the Preliminary Handicap at Addington on Saturday it is obvious that he will win another race or two this season. His record since February lis six starts for five wins and one third. _ Nicoya is one of the bargains of the sale ring. He was purchased for £6 by his present owner. % Last year he started in thirteen races for two wins, three seconds and one third. AN HONEST MARE. Garner is an honest mare and a good stayer. She was unlucky in meeting two such outstanding trotters as Nicoya and Louis Bingen at Addington on Saturday. After running second to Nicoya in the Preliminary Handicap she came out later and beat all but Louis .Bingen over two miles. In the latter race she trotted two miles in 4.34 off a 4.40 mark. All going well with her, she will make a great mare when- she is a year older. She is only a four-year-old. BRILLIANT SATIN KING. After being off the scene for some time, clue to trouble iu a suspensory' ligament, Satin King made his reappearance at Addington on Saturday, and won the Flying Handicap in his usual brilliant 6tyle. He looked bui'ly, and had a forelegbandaged, but registered 2.41 1-5 for the mile and a quarter, and returned to the birdcage none the worse for the race from his leg point of view. Satin King is among the pacing wonders produced in New Zealand, and it is only a question of keeping sound to add further successes to his already attractive list.