TROTTING Yonkers Officials Coming This Week

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31276, 24 January 1967, Page 5

TROTTING Yonkers Officials Coming This Week

Mr Martin Tananbaum, president of Yonkers Raceway, New York, and the raceway’s publicity director (Mr Irving Rudd) will arrive in New Zealand later this week.

In a letter received by Mr C. L. Rhodes, of Christchurch, at the week-end Mr Tananbaum said that he would fly from Auckland to Dunedin next Friday for the first night of the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s festival meeting on Saturday night.

The Yonkers officials will return to Christchurch on Sunday. One of Mr Tananbaum’s initial projects while he is here will be to inspect his two stallions, Emory Hanover and Tartan Hanover, which arrived in New Zealand a few weeks ago. Both horses are quartered at Mr Rhodes’s West Melton pro-

perty, Peterson Lodge. Emory Hanover, a seven-year-old son of Tar Heel and Ella Tence, took a record of Imin 58 2-ssec at Vernon Downs, New York, in July, 1965. Tartan Hanover is a chestnut horse by Hoot Man from Tomboy Hanover. He recorded 2min 0 3-10 sec at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1960.

Both horses will eventually be leased to New Zealand studmasters but no definite arrangements have been made on where they will stand. The principal reason for Mr Tananbaum’s eighth annual visit is to search for talented pacers and trotters to compete in a series of international races at Yonkers Raceway later this year. Mr Tananbaum will return to Dunedin for the second night of the Forbury Park meeting tomorrow week and the next day he will leave for Australia. After visiting Sydney Mr Tananbaum will go to Perth for the Inter-Domin-ion Championships at Gloucester Park next month. “Miracle Mile”

Plans for the richest sprint race at Harold Park Raceway are well advanced. The event, which will be sponsored by a cigarette company in conjunction with the New South Wales Trotting Club, will be known as the “Miracle Mile.” It will cater for six of the top pacers in Australia and New Zealand and will be worth 15,000 dollars. But 5000 dollars, of the stake will be an incentive. The place-getters will share 10,000 dollars. An additional 1000 dollars will be paid to the connexions of the winner if he, or she, breaks the Australian record of 2min 1 1-5 sec. A further 4000 dollars will be paid if the winner equals, or breaks, the twominute mile. The Australian record for a mile, started from the mobile gate as this one will be, was set by Mineral Spring at Harold Park Raceway in November, 1956. Although no date has been announced for the “Miracle Mile” it is almost certain to be run on February 24 or March 3. Really Good

Really Good lived up to his name at Harold Park Raceway, Sydney, last Friday night. Mr C. L. Rhodes's Goodland colt outclassed his rivals in the Mobile Three-year-old Stakes. Really Good won the nine ,and a half furlongs event by 30 yards and his mile rate for the race was 2min 7sec. Friday night’s win was ' Really Good’s seventh on his present campaign in Australia. It was also his most imI portant. His other successes ;were at country meetings.