TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 171, 21 July 1936, Page 16

TROTTING.

HOT POINT'S FORM. ' ONLY THREE STARTS. GOOD PROSPECTS AHEAD. The chestnut pacer Hot Point has not , been over raced, as he was not started 1 until he was a six-year-old, and this season was only raced on three occasions. He opened his career in great style by winning the Improvers' Handicap on the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting last October, beating a strong field very comfortably in 2.52 for a mile and a quarter. His next appearance was in the Tramway Handicap on the second day of the Auckland summer meeting, but interference soon after the start ruined whatever chance he may have possessed. He was then given a spell, and it was not until the Waikato meeting last month that he was again produced. He was backed with confidence, but failed to show anything like his best and never looked | like winning. When he gained his only success big deeds were confidently forecasted for the son of Nelson Bingen, and although ho has not shown the same form since, he can still be expected to gain his | share of prize money next season. \ A GOOD PERFORMER. | War Buoy has done very little racing . during the season over a mile and a quarter, but when he finished third to Indianapolis and Sunny Morn at Oamaru he was set to do 2.44. In the light of his fine record it is surprising to find the , Man o'" War gelding let out to 2.45 for ; the coming season. This will provide him ! with another opportunity of adding to his ' great record. MARKS DF CHAMPIONS. According to the assessments made for the coming season, the champion twomiler is Roi l'Or, who has been placed on a 4.21 mark, the next best apparently being Indianapolis and Harold Logan, who are both on 4.22. Over the shorter distances, however, the latter pair are on 2.4 and 2.3G for a mile and a mile and a quarter respectively, while Roi l'Or is rated at 2.5 and 2.37. FINISHED WELL AT EPSOM. The four-year-old Kewpie's Crest is taking a long time to live up to his early promise, but the trouble with the bay pacer is that he knocks his knees and this naturally pulls him up going round bends. At the Auckland meeting last month he gained third place in the Suburban Handicap with a splendid finishing run, and he may yet develop into a fine performer. He has plenty of size and looks every inch a racehorse and age may work improvement in him. JUVENILES FROM AUSTRALIA. Messrs. Newdick Bros., who have been out of the sport for nearly twd seasons, have purchased two yearling trotters from Australia and the juveniles are at present doing light tasks under. A. Brown at Epsom. They are both by Roy Redmond, who has gained some success as a sire in Australia. Fisher, who has been having a long spell, is also likely to rejoin the active brigade shortly. Fisher was one of the speediest horses in training, but was not too genuine and his record was not impressive. BINGEN SUN'S PROSPECTS. Bingen Sun, who showed up prominently at the Auckland meeting last month by gaining a first and third placing in his two starts, was given a short let-up recently and has come back to work looking a trifle big, but a few solid tasks should soon see him in fine order for engagements at the Cambridge Trotting Club's fixture next month. Bingen Sun j has taken a long time to come solid, but judging by the attractive manner in which he ran out the mile and a half iourneys at Epsom in Very heavy going, there are more successes in store for the son of Nelson Bingen in the new season. DEATH OF BROOD MARE. The death occurred recently of Princess Ann, an American mare that had earned | fame as the dam of Gamble and several other useful pacers. Princess Ann was purchased in America at a price approaching four figures bv two Christchurch sportsmei.. Messrs. Blake and Young, but outside taking a record of 2.54 4-5 for a mile and a quarter, she was not a success on the race track. In her first season at the stud she produced Te Kinga, and with this coltu at foot the mare was later sold to the Southern trainer M. B. Edwards at a .'ery reasonable figure. In her new ownership she left Royal Chenault to Peter Chenault, Nobleman to Native King, a colt to Brigand, Gamble to Jack Potts, while her 1933 foal was a colt by Frank Worthy. Princess Ann -was 17 years old when she died.