TROTTING NOTES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 18 May 1929, Page 20

TROTTING NOTES.

An Auckland paper states that it is unlikely that Great Parrish will keep his engagement in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes at Ashburton next month. All going well, he will be taken to Hastings to compete at the Hawkc's Bay Meeting on June Ist and 3rd. Another northern writer states that Great Parrish will race at Hawke's Bay tmd will be afterward*? taken to Asnbitrton. Great Parrish is by Guy Parrish —Bertha Bell, therefore a half-brother to Great Bingen and Co. He is credited with the possession of gnat speed, although not blest with perfect manners at the barrier. Something of a sensation was caused at the New South Wales Trotting Club's Meeting on April 29th when the driving license of the leading trainer, E. L. McDonald, was suspended for threo months by the stipendiary stewards, the charge being that he crossed too quickly in the Tramway Handicap. .McDonald drove his own nomination. Roseneath. who was equal favourite with YVallywood for the race. JlcDonald drove 50 winners last season, establishing an Australian and New Zealand record. In the nine months of the present season he had driven more than 40 winners. Amongst the nominations for the Puparua Handicap, to be decided on the second day of tne Canterbury Park Meeting is Kautoma. This gelding has not done anything in public to lead his connexions to believe that he has a chance in such a race, for in the past month or two he has run unplaced off the limit of the Kaikoura Cup, 4.54 class, and the Cheviot Cup, 4.62 class. The former Canadian horseman. Thomas J. Ellia, of Chesterville, Ont., lias turned evangelist, and has announced that lie will conduct a series | of meetings in a Gospel tent at Chesterville. the subject of his sermons being; ''From the Race Track to the Pulpit" (says an American exchange). Ellis will be remembered as the man who promoted the special race between Single G. 1.584 and Romala 2.8 at Chesterville in 1921; nlso the special race in which Margaret Dillon 1.584, Single G. 1.584, and Sir Roch 1.59J, took part at Montreal, in 1924. The New Zealand Sapling Stakes, for which the final forfeits tall due on May 27th, look like providing one of the best contests ever witnessed in this race. It is a long time since so many promising two-year-olds have been seen out at one time, and already two of them in Purser and Ngingo N gin go have proved winners and exceptionally good juveniles. At Oamaru to-day another in Grand Canyon will probably be seen out, and at the Ashburton Uucing Club's fixture on Saturday next there are likely to be several more. It is the ambition of every owner to receive the blue ribbon that decorates the winner of this race, while the owner of the sire of the winner receives an excellent advertisement for hist horse at an opportune time. The New Zealand Saplinp Stakes is growing in popularity, as trainers pay more rnd more att»ntion to the development of early speed, and the wonder is that other clubs do not take a leaf out of the Ashburton Club's book and provide one or more classic races.

| RACING CONFERENCE. DUNEDIN REMITS. [TOT mis IpmUl BerrlM.] DUNEDIN, May 17. At a meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club, the following remits to the Conference were approved:— Amendment to Part XX. Rale 6.—No trainer who is also a jockey shall ride in any race in which more than one horse trained either wholly or partially by him runs, provided, however, that tliis rule shall not apply in the case of two or more horses which under the rules are bracketed on the totalisator. If he ride in such race he shall ride the horse trained by him, but in the case of bracketed horses he may ride either of svieh horses. If any trainer shall fail to comply with this rule the horse in respuct of which such failure to corralv shall have occurred shall tie disqualified for the race. Amendment to regulations. Clause 12, Page 115. -The accident fee in the case of hunters in bona fide training for raw meeting will cover accidents incurred in such training and in the hunting (inlet provided thr horse is being nnalified lor hunters' races and in ridden at the time of the accident bv a licensed trainer, jockey, apprentice jockev, or anv person regularly employed in a racing stable.