TROTTING COMMENT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 5

TROTTING COMMENT

NOT IN STI'D BOOK Koyal Worthy, said to be the champion trotter of the day, is not in the Trotting Stud Book. A search through the Trotting Register finds that his dam. Royal Serene, was got by Realm from Placid, but there the matter ends. SON OF ADELAIDE WOOD Mr. W. T. Lowe has always held a good opinion of Glenariir, which he bred and owns, and this pacer's consistent form at Wellington, where he won two races and was placed in another event, was imjjressive because of the calibre of the horses he beat. Glenariff is an aged gelding by Wrack from Adelaide Wood, and he looks like performing with further credit over two miles. He was trained early in his career by M. Stewart at Te Uapa. A REAL IMAKT PACER The southern pacer Shadow Maid has a remarkably consistent record. In her last 14 starts she is credited with four i wins, three seconds, four thirds and two I fourths, and in the only start in which she was unplaced she was close up. She is a fine-looking mare, as reliable a pacer as we have racing to-day, and over any distance she will continue to play a prominent part. In fact, her prospects of "caching cup company are good. She is by Red Shadow from a Matchlight mare and is aged five. BRED TO WIN Scottish Air has done very little racing and should yet do well for her breeder, Mr. J. R. McKenzie. This four-year-old filly had her first race in the 1941 Timaru Stakes, and was beaten narrowly by Pacing Power. She had started only four times — three times as a two-year-old and once as a three-year-old — until September 19, when, after an absence of nearly a year from racing she finished second to Castlebar in the Selma Trot Handicap at Ashburton. Scottish Air has breeding that counts, for she is by U. Scott from Air Flow, an imported American trotter who beat the pacers on more than one ocasion on Canterbury tracks. Air Flow is by Guy Day, 2.4. from Willina Chenault. by Peter Chenault, 2.4J, from Wilna H.. by The Harvester, 2.1, and who also trotted two miles in 4.15. Willina H. was out of Sis Directum, by Directum from Bermuda Girli by Bermuda.

ANSWER TO CORRESPOXDEXT A. ANDERSON—£3O 4/6 and £5 15/ £2 19/6.