TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 245, 17 October 1933, Page 14

TROTTING.

WAIKATO FORM. POINTERS FOR AUCKLAND. METEOE'S CONSISTENCY. With the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting opening on Saturday the racing at Claudelands naturally created more than passing interest, and while the form will be relied upon to some extent when the fields line up again on Saturday, there will be several horses competing who were not produced at the Waikato. This fact tviil place backers in somewhat of a quandary, but after all form is the best guide. Track work this week may throw some light upon the problems, but not much. jiccau.se the majority of the horses are trained en courses other than Epsom. The course proper will be open for fust work on Thursday from 8.30 a.m. HAS A COLD. The much-discussed Ringtrue, who is a candidate for Derby honours, was not produced at. the Waikato. The sou of Travis Axworthy is suffering with a cold, and \inless he shakes it oil quickly he will not be raced at the Auckland meeting. WILL WIN SOON. Kia Kaha should not be long in winring a race. Following his good showing at the August meeting at Epsom he was harnessed up for the Frankton Handicap at Claudelands on Saturday and again went. n. slashing race, beating all but the smart Worthy Light. Kia Kaha hvng on well when under a hard drive and witu ordinary luck R. A. McMillan should get a etake with the grey gelding very shortly. NOT A STAYER. While Tempo displays speed: his efforts in the two races he has had in Auckland do not suggest the bay gelding ever being a stayer, at least not enough to win in good company. C. G. Lee had the gelding looking well at Hamilton and in his race l,c was setting his own pace in front for nearly a mile. In the straight he was soon disposed of, and it was only the vigorous driving of Lee that saw him finish third. A. mile and a quarter race when the opposition is not too strong would suit Tempo. NOT OUT OF TURN. No trotter to ever race in Auckland has been in the limelight so much as Pariisii Belle, but she has failed so badly on innumerable occasions that it is very clear she is by no means a class trotter. \t Hamilton on Saturday she won the big trot nicely, after losing a few lengths at the jump away, but there was not a great deal in the performance to enthuse over. Certainly A. Pillinger's mare could do no more than win, but the 24yds penalty sue has incurred for her engagements at the Auckland meeting is going to make it hard for her to score again. It is in her favour that she does nothing wrong, but as an offset to this she is a poor stayer. When Moko Bells threw out a challenge in the Straight on Saturday it was thought he would reach Parrish Belle, but under a hard drive J. T. Paul's horse went to a break. This made matters easy for Parrish Belle. PATIENCE REWARDED. Nobody envied W. Cockbill when he took over Bingen Chief as a racing proposition. The black gelding was considered too much of a problem by O. Ji. Hooper, and then J. T. Paul had him just long enough to decide he would be too much worry to bother with However, patience is one of W. Cockbills strong traits, and he had the pleasure on baturdav of winning at Hamilton with the gelding Bingen Chief is a long way from being an ideal pacer, but he has a. torrent of speed for one racing in his- class, and he has only to do the pacing right to win a couple more races. Prior to his win in the Stewards' Handicap he had raced earlier in the day in the Frankton Handicap, when he gave a shocking display and was tangling in almost every furlong. There was some excuse for his bad showin" because he broke one of his hopples in the preliminary, and another set had to be requistioncd. These, it transpired, were not the right length, and Bingen Chief would not pace smoothly.