TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 241, 12 October 1933, Page 18

TROTTING.

NEW BRIGHTON CLUB

SOME BIG DIVIDENDS.

A.T.C. ACCEPTANCES TO-MORROW.

The Auckland Trotting Club's meeting will be advanced a stags to-morrow, when I acceptances for all events to be decided on the opening day will elcee with the secretary. Mr. A. G. Mabee, at 5 p.m. The nominations were very good, and it is certain there will be a solid response by owners. NGINGONGINGO UNCERTAIN. A Ch.ristcb.nreh writer states that Xgingongingo, who is engaged at the Waikato meeting, was under veterinary treatment last week, and though accepted for it was not certain on Saturday last whether he would be sent north to fulfil his engagements. CHEAP FARES. Alt meetings held by the Waikato Trotting Club are popular, anil to make them more so the club has made arrangements lor a special train to leave Auckland for Claudclands on Saturday morning, returning shortly alter the last race. On this train cheap excursion lares will apply, and the concession will mean that followers of tha sport can make the trip at a minimum of expense. AN ENCOURAGING EFFORT. One of the most attractive performances for a maiden trotter seen for some time was that of Kotinga in the Innovation Handicap. This mare, a four-year-old by Sonoma Harvester from a Harold Dillon mare, was making her first appearance, and she shaped very promisingly to finish fast in third place after she had dropped back approaching the hall-mile. She is owned and trained by G. F. Clarke, of North Canterbury. A GOOD MARE. Though she has as yet only one win to her credit, Xellota is a smart mare, and one who can be depended upon to develop into a good handicapper. She was unlucky not to be in the money at the last Auckland meeting, and as she has done a lot of solid work since then she should be worth remembering on Saturday week, when she is stepped out at Epsom. When worked fast she invariably takes on horses racing in a much tighter class than herself. PLANS INDEFINITE. No definite plans for immediate racing for the champion Harold Logan have been made, but the bay gelding is to be nominated for both the Greymouth ami Oamaru fixtures, and a decision as to which meeting he will race at will be made later. The champion is set a hard task to win the New Zealand Cup next November, but he is so brilliant in the early stages of a race that he will be in the middle of the field almost before his opponent*; have pi'operly settled down. NEVER LOOKING BETTER. The race track, in fact all tracks at Alexandra Park, also the lawns and gardens, never looked better than at present, and their condition reflects credit upon the course staff. Jt is reasonable to expect fine weather now that we have the spring with us, and unless the Auckland Trotting Club is unlucky enough to strike a wet day. the conditions for both the public and the lacing should be well nigh perfect when the meeting opens on Saturday week. LARGE DIVIDENDS. Probably there has never before been a trotting meeting held which could compare with the New Brighton fixture on' Saturday in the matter of large dividends. It, is not uncommon for one, or perhaps two., outside horses to win and record sensational dividends, but half the programme at New Brighton was won by horecH whoso chances on the totalisator were neglected. One pound invested on each of the four horses concerned, Idanoe, Don Chenault, Checkers and Vagabond King, would have returned a net profit of slightly more than £200. A GOOD WINNER. A regular stake-earner for J. J. Jarden lias been Don Chenault during the last few months. The well-bred trotter, despite his .success on the same courne at his last start, was allowed to go out at a very long price at New Brighton on Saturday. From 72yds ho wan soon in a handy position, and after the first mile had been completed it could be seen that he would be in the money at the finish. Only a eix-year-old, he is by I'etcr Chenault (imp.), from -Nulgeria (imp.), and he is becoming better with age. Jarden is credited with having effected a vast improvement in the West Coast-owned gelding since he first took him over, and any future races ■which he may win will be well deserved. IMPROVEMENT IN FORM. After her run in the Methven Cup the previous Saturday, the chances of Waress could not be favoured in the Waimari Handicap at New Brighton, but whereas she was not on hand at the finish of the cup she was always in the leading division in Saturday's race, and those of her admirers who supported her again on Saturday were amply rewarded, as she returned a much larger dividend than she would have in the Methven Cup. It will be remembered that this mare had shown her previous best form after she had done a little racing, and her failure at Methven was probably due to her not having had a run since the .Tune meeting at Greymouth, when she recorded such a good performance in the Nelson Trotting Club's Handicap. She is a fine stayer, and she should make her mark during the present season. A SOLID TROTTER. Idanoe, winner of the Innovation Handicap at the New Brighton meeting on Saturday, created a very good impression by his performance, as, although this was only his third appearance in a race, he trotted like a horse with much more experience, and he did not put a foot wrong on the journey (says a Christchurch writer). He raced for the first time at the Methven meeting a week earlier, and was fifth in the two-mile race won by Hakatere, but a long way back. If lie continues to show the improvement he has shown with the little racing experience he has had, he is likely to develop into * very fine trotter. He is by Sonoma Harvester from Plorrie Audubon, and is the second of that mare's progeny, the first being Salute. Florrie Audubon was by Great Audubon from Miss Florrie C>| who was by Wildwood from D.1.C., the dam of-Admiral Wood (4.23 2-5). CHANCELLOR AT HAMILTON. When the Travis Axworthy three-year-old Ringtrue finished third at the last Auckland meeting in a slow class mile and a quarter, ho finished so well that many at once ticked him off to win the Great [ Northern Derby. In the hands of the Mangere trainer J. T. Paul he will be given every chance to carry off the blue riband, but unless Chancellor has slipped it is difficult to see how the almost inexperienced Ringtrue can bent F. J. Smith's representative. Towards the end of last season Chancellor proved a brilliant two-year-old, and though he was beaten in the Sapling Stakes when taken South, he went a slashing race after losing a lot of ground at the start. Possibly he may not have won the race under any circumstances, but it i.s certain he would have given the winner, War Buoy, considerably more trouble. On anything yet shown in public Chancellor, and no other, appears the winner of the next Derby at Auckland. He is engaged at the Waikato meeting on Saturday, where he is on SOyds in a 3.30 mile and a half, and he has only to make a good showing to be a warm favourite for the Derby.