Trotters’ Races Penalty-Free

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31322, 18 March 1967, Page 6

Trotters’ Races Penalty-Free

Penalty-free races for both two and three-year-old trotters will be run at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s winter meeting at Addington Raceway on Saturday, May 27.

The club, in its programme yet to be approved by the Trotting Conference, has included a non-totalisator event over a mile for two-year-old trotters. The stake for this race will be £3OO.

The Conference Handicap will be for three-year-old trotters. Winners of one race will be handicapped on 24 yards, winners of two races on 36 yards and winners of three or more races on 48 yards. The race will be run over 10 furlongs.

The club has rather surprisingly included a restricted free-for-all for 2:14 and 2:13 class horses. There should be sufficient horses to provide a full field of either class. However, the miserable stake of £BOO will no doubt restrict the entry of 2:13 class horses. Horses on 2:16 will race for £BOO at Addington Raceway this evening. Another poor stake of only £7OO has been allocated to the 2:15 class horses, which tonight will race for £9OO. The club, racing on the eve of the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, which will carry a stake of £2500, will cater for two-year-old non-winners with a stake of £3OO. The distance will be one mile. The stake will be of little encouragement to owners and trainers. The Ellesmere Handicap will be for probationary drivers and will cater for 2:18 class horses. The club is unlikely to receive praise from

owners and trainers as a result of its decision to make the distance of this event two miles.

The main race on the programme will be an invitation event for trotters over 13 furlongs for a stake of £lOOO. The limit will be 2:13. Robin Dundee Favourite (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE. The champion New Zealand mare, Robin Dundee, although handicapped 48 yards behind, has the class to win the Lady Brookes Cup tonight. The Melbourne reinsman, G. Goth, will drive Robin Dundee. Vychan, a winner at his last five starts, Is the main danger. Angelique will be trying to win the cup for the third successive year. Rocky Star To Come Home (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY. The New Zealand pacer Rocky Star, will return home on Monday for a spell. Rocky Star has been disappointing in Australia. His part-owner and trainer, I. Schwamm, left for New Zealand yesterday.

After a spell Rocky Star will be put into training for the New Zealand Cup at Addington in November.