TROTTING NOTES

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22894, 15 December 1939, Page 14

TROTTING NOTES

A Reminder Nominations for the Canterbury Park Trptting Club’s meeting will close at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. , On the Mend G. McKendry is making slow but steady improvement from the injuries he received through a fall at the August meeting at Addington, but it may be some time before he is able to drive again. He will not be in the sulky at Timaru, and there is a doubt as to whether his services will be available for the Christmas or New Year meetings. If he is well enough to drive he will probably visit Auckland, and will handle Token, Battlefield, and Battlevale in their Auckland engagements. First Payment After the first payment the following two-year-olds remain in the Great Northern Trotting Stakes, of £4OO, to be run at the Auckland Trotting Club’s February meeting:—Pearboro, b c Quite Sure —Regina Logan, b f Loch Moigh— Tui Wildwood, b g Jewel Pointer —Ada Vale, b c Surprise Journey—Luvan, Peter’s Find, b f Jack Potts—Free Advice, b g Jewel Pointer—Mountain Dell, . Kenilworth, br f Nelson Parrish-j-Co- ; gent, ch f Jack Potts—Blue Mountain King mare, Earl’s Pride, b g Jack Potts , —Kewpie’s Guy, b g Jewel Pointer — i Trustworthy, br f Red Shadow—Murii cata mare. Play Ring, b g Jewel PointL er—Our Thorpe mare, ch f Nelson Pari rish—Blue Mountain King mare, blk g ‘ U. Scott—Escapade, ch g Jack Potts—--1 The .Abbess, b f Jewel Pointer—Bonnie S Bingen, b f Toana—Cyone, My Lady : Luck, and Diamond Jim. j Train Arrangements ’ t A special passenger train will leave ; Christchurch for the Timaru Trotting i Club’s meeting to-morrow at 8 a.m., j. arriving at the racecourse at 11.12 a.m. : It will stop at Addington, Sockburn, . Hornby. Templeton, Rolleston, Dunsan- . del, Rakaia, Ashburton, Hinds, Orari, i and Temuka. Passengers from Chert- • sey will travel by the usual 9.9 a.m. , train, and join the special train at t Ashburton. The return train will I leave Timaru at 5.38 p.m., and is due at Christchurch at 9 p.m. A special ’ horse train will leave Christchurch at 6.10 a.m., and will leave on the-return journey at 6.20 p.m. For the convenience of race patrons, the 8.35 a.m. Christchurch-Invercargill express train will stop at Washdyke to set down passengers, and the Invercargill-Christ-church express train will, if required, stop at Washdyke to pick up passengers, ‘ -