TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 144, 19 June 1940, Page 13

TROTTING.

RACING OF JUVENILES.

EFFECT NOT HARMFUL. SEVERAL CASES IN POINT. There Is an impression in certain quartern that early racing is harmful to trotters and pacers, but a glance through the list of. winners of the New Zealand Sapling Stakes will show that many of our best racehorses were champion two-year-olds, says a Christchurch writer. It should be remembered, however, that the Sapling Stakes is run very late in the season, and the contestants are approaching their third birthday. After racing in the Sapling Stakes the majority are given a let-up for several months before being r sired to contest the next classic, the New Zealand Derby. Among the winners of the Sapling Stakes are horses that have later entered the best class, and the / number Includes Doraldina, Childe Pointer, Ahurirl, Taurekareka, Kohara, Arethusa, Silver de Oro, War Buoy and Parisienne. Ahurirl was twice successful in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, Kohara also won the race, and War Buoy was twice placed, while Parisienne, , one of the greatest mares ever raced in New Zealand, was acclaimed the outstanding performer in the interDominion champions-hips held at Addlngton. ALL-AGED STAKES WINNERS. In the five contests for the All-Aged Stakes, Gold Bunk is the only horse of more than three years to win the race. When the race was instituted in 1U36 the winner was Pot Luck, driven by M. Holmes. In 1937 M. B. Edwards was successful with Frisco Boy, and Horsepower (R. It. Berry) followed in I'JSS. Laet year Nelson Bddy (D. McKeudry) won from Special Edition uud Colonel Grattan. PROMISING YOUNGSTER. J. Siebel is handling a promising two-year-old trotter in a gelding by Quite Sure from Auspicious at Addlngton. This youngster has not done muw work, but his style of moving suggests possibilities. At Washdyke K. Townley is handling a halfsister to this gelding by Wrack, and she has shown promise of developing Into a good performer. Auspicious was by Drusus from Trlxie Mac, the dam of Bruce (2.14 •JI-α) and Mac de Oro. KEPT UP TO COLLAR. It is not often that a two-year-old is started 11 times, but this has been asked of Diamond Jim. and the reward Iβ on* second placing. Diamond Jim is owned by Mr. G. R. Lancaster, and is by Jewel Pointer, one of the hardiest little pacers raced in New Zealand. He fairly thrived on hard, gruelling contests, and up to the present Diamond Jim doee not seem to hnve been affected by his strenuous season. Another two-year-old by Jewel Pointer in Diamond Trust, whose only start was in the Auckland two-year-old classic, which race he won narrowly from Diamond Jim.

MINTON DERBY AS SIRE. The 1922 Auckland Trotting Cup winner Minion Derby Iβ the leading sire for the season in New South Wales with 22 wins, his most successful representative being Dix Minton, who won eight races. Minton Derby, who te by Mambrino Derby from Mignonette, was one of the outstanding pacers in the southern hemisphere. Robert Derby, sire of Lawn Derby, with 19 winners, is next, and Machine Brick, who won ■the Otahuhu Trotting Cup in 1926, follows with 14. PARISIENNE RETURNS. Parisienne is back in R. B. Berry's stable, but she has yet to recommence work. A decision regarding her future will' be made when the classes are announced for the new season. She is on a hardy mark over all distances, and although it is expected - that she will be among those to receive concessions at the end of the season, she may etill have little chance of paying her way if clubs decide to continue the policy of middle-class limits in the principal races. BRED THE RIGHT WAY. Haughty, who acted as runner-up to Mttrtlake in the Trial Handicap at the Ashburton meeting, is only four years old. and she may prove a good winner during the coming season. Owned and trained by B. Grice, Haughty is bred the right way, for while her sire Nelson Derby, by Nelson Bingen—Norice. won the Great Northern Derby and Auckland Cup, her dam, Regal Voyage, was also a good two-miler. Regnl Voyage was by another great racehorse in Happy Voyage from Logan Princess, by Logan Pointer from a Prince Imperial mare, who left a number of really good pacers. Haughty has done little racing, so th;re is every chance of her improving on her last effort. MUST PASS THE DOCTOR. Horsemen over the age of 55 years will in future have to produce a certificate of fitness to the New Zealand Trotting Association. At a recent meeting of the Trotting Association it was decided Hint before renewing a license to a horseman over the age of 55 years it will be necessary for him to produce such a certificate from a medical practitioner who acts as honorary surgeon of the trotting club in his district. This practice has been followed in cases where any doubt has been felt regarding the applicant's fitness, but the present scheme will have the effect of assisting the licensing committee in its bask of seeing that only fit men hold the association's licenses. AN IMPRACTICABLE SUGGESTION. The opinion liae been expressed that the acceptance of some of the horses in the Ashburton All-Aged Stakes should have been rejected to keep the fields within reasonable limits. As no provision was made for this in the conditions of the race, elimination of any entrant would not have been legal, and .there would not have been much trouble from overcrowding if the race had been run on the big track at Ashburtou. In any case, the selection of starters is a risky business, and if it had been tried at the Ashburton meeting it is probable that Gold Bank would have been one of the rejects. One can never forget the first invitation races at Addington during Walla Walla's visit. Roi l'Or was adjudged unworthy of inclusion in the field for the two-mile Free-for-All, and confounded the selection committee by competing In a handicap on the same afternoon and stepping 4.14 1-5, under conditions that were not 100 per cent.