TROTTING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 283, 29 November 1943, Page 5

TROTTING

NOT SO HOT! PROPOSED AGE LIMIT Among the panaceas prescribed for swollen' fields is that in harness racing a deadline of nine years should he fixed, and that all horses older than that should be struck off the rolls. This has received a surprising amount of support. If it had been in force a few years ago some of the brightest pages of pacing history would never have been written. ' Harold Logan won his Trotting Cups when aged nine and 10. Early in his 11th year he slumped, but at 12 he came back to win renown in the Walla Walla series. He registered 2,36 2-5 and 4.12 2-5, and at 14 won his last Free-for-All. Then there was Roi l'Cr. After at 10 beating all the cracks in a High-Class Handicap at Addington, he took only £230 or so In minor place money at 11, and it appeared that his crown had become tarnished. But at 12 he came hack to put together a string of two-mile time performances and sprint figures neyei equalled or excelled. He did 4.-14 l-o on grass and on dirt, and 2.36 2-5 on grass, and four times broke 4.15. The star trotter Trampfast was apparently as good at 14 as at any stage of his career, and he was retired because there were no races to suit lnm. Lament, winner of the Trotting Championship, is 12. CLAUDELANDS TROTS Red Crest should be included a ™.°ns the acceptors for the Hautapu Handicap and the Cambridge Handicap at the Soutn Auckland Trotting Clubs' meeting at Claudelands on Saturday. Waiwera Jewel should be included among the acceptors for the Thames Handicap. AUSTRALIAN TURF KIRKHASI STAKES RESULT SYDNEY, November 28. The principal event at the Warwick Farm races at Randwick resulted: — KIUKHAM STAKES, sweepstakes of £10 each, with £1000 added, two-year-olds, colts and celafn's 8 5 fillies 8.0, five furlongs.—SHANNON, 8.5 (F She'an), 1; TEA ROSE, 8.0 (A. Clarice), 2; HAWK CRAIG, 8.5 (F. Delaney), 3. Se ven started. Two lengths each way. Time, l.lVa. Tho New Zealand-bred Omapo, by Nightmrtrch from Azalea, won the Welter Handicap, one mile, from White Feather and Haripur. SIR THOMAS' ASCOT CUP MELBOURNE, November 28. The chief event at the Mentone Turf Club's meeting yesterday resulted:— ASCOT CUP, about one mile and a quarter.— SIR THOMAS, 7.2 (H. McCloud). 1; TEA CAKE, 7.13 (H. Morris), 2; MAC ROB, 8.7 (J. Williams). 3. Nineteen started. Three-quarters of a 'length; length and a half. Time. 2.10. AX OAKS PROSPECT It is being suggested in some of the South Island papers- that the Oaks Stakes is a gift for the Southland , filly . Royal. Flight. It might be as well not to overlook the claims of the Wellington-owned fillv Caithness, which won at her last start at Otaki. In her racing to date Caithness shaped like a filly that will stay, and if the Oaks is not merely a sprint home she should make her presence felt. Her dam, My Own, won the Metropolitan Handicap at Riccarton,' and the Great Northern Oaks' and produced the New Zealand Cup winner Yours Truly; also Tidal Wave, which as a three-year-old, finislitd third in a Melbourne Cup.