TROTTING NOTES

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24280, 10 June 1944, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

A Sulky Fund "With a view to assisting owners whose sulkies have been damaged in a race, it has been decided to establish a sulky fund ” says the New Zealand “Trotting Calendar." “For some time a sub-com-mittee of tire New Zealand Trotting Association, at the request of the New Zealand Owners’ and Breeders Association, has been arranging a scheme which has now been accepted by the representatives of the Owners’ and Breeders Association. At present the scheme is on a voluntary basis, and all owners of sulkies are urged in their own interests, to contribute to the fund which will come into operation on August 1 next. The objects are to establish a fund whereby persons registered wi'h it may claim therefrom, in accordance with the rules, an amount approved by the trustees as compensation foi a sulky damaged or destroyed at a totalisator or non-totalisator race meeting held bv a club or racing club, or at a matinee race meeting or trial meeting run under the auspices of a club or Owners and Breeders’ Association.’ The scheme on the payment of a small fee has been made possible by the financial assistance received from the trotting clubs and from the Canterbury Owners’ and Breeders Association.

New Zoaland-bred A recent winner In Australia was Count Sure, a three-year-old colt by Quite Sure from Homeward Lass. This was Sure’s first start and the distance of the race was two miles. Tempest, a wellknown performer on New Zealand racecourses, won two races in Western Aus Iralia.