TROTTING Top Perth Youngster May Compete At Addington

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32295, 13 May 1970, Page 5

TROTTING Top Perth Youngster May Compete At Addington

High hopes are held that the brilliant Western Australian colt, Mount Eden, will [ be a starter in the Inter-Dominion Championship series at Addington Raceway next [ February. All of Mount Eden’s future training, which will not start for some months, j will be planned to have him at his peak for the series. ‘

Mount Eden was taken to Sydney last month amidst tremendous publicity to contest the New South Wales Pacers’' Derby, but he was un- ' able to start at Harold I, Park. A few days before the qua lifying heats for the Derby were decided, Mount Eden < broke down. For a few days ‘ there was a doubt whether he i would ever race again, but ex- ' tensive veterinary examina-{ tions showed a slight frac- ; ture of a pedal bone. Later e it was discovered that he had f pulled a muscle in a shoulder < For some time it appeared j likely that Mount Eden would t have to stay in Sydney for f several weeks or even months * for treatment, but apparently he has made a good recovery as he was returned to Perth last week. It is intended to t spell him for a few weeks and j then put him into work in t preparation for racing in thoi* late spring or early summer. Great Record i a Mount Eden has been ac- «

claimed as the greatest juven ile pacer seen in Western Australia. He has had 11 starts for eight wins and a third and $10,690 in stakes He won the Western Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes, re cording 3:6 for 12 furlongs He has also rated 2:4 1-5, and 2:5 2-5 for 12 furlongs from a standing start Mount Eden is raced in partnership by Mr B. Ogden and his trainer-driver, E. J. Miles. He is by the Adios horse, Morris Eden, now back in Australia, from Blankets, an unraced mare by Aksarben from Shepherd’s Brook, by Nelson Derby. He cost $600: at Auckland in 1968, after j he had been passed in at $4OO a few hours earlier. Blankets was bred at Yaldhurst by Mr A. B. Holmes, who has three of her progeny on his property. One is aj two-year-old filly by Yankee: Express, another is a yearling filly by Adorian, and the third i

| is a weanling filly, also by J Adorian. ' Many inquiries have been received from Australia for | Blankets, and one Perth buyer ) recently asked for a price toj be put on Blankets and all of ! (her unraced progeny. How-! ever, no business resulted. Seven Entries i Alandria should have been in-/ eluded in the nominations 1 announced yesterday for the 1 Winter Stakes at the Canterbury ! Park Trotting Club's winter I meeting at Addington Raceway ji on Saturday week. Her nomina- i tion was mislaid by the club/ and the error was not discov- t ered until yesterday. I There are now seven entries ‘ for the race, and it is one more horse will be avail- J able after the Cardigan Bay ’ Handicap at Washdyke. Should ' the winner of that race start ' from 24 yards, he will become eligible for the Addington race, j No Start f More than half the 41 named horses surviving the final for- ; feits for the $5500 New Zealand Sapling Stakes to be run at Ash- f burton on May 30 wil be able a to obtain a start. In addition, t nine unnamed horses remain c in the list. it It is expected that the club U will select the field after taking t into consideration form shown t at totalisator meetings, prefer- A ence being given to winners and a

those horses with second and third placings. It is unfortunate the club has < (not decided to run elimination 1 heats for those horses which have shown no form at totalise- 1 jtor meetings or have not been I to the races. The club ran i qualifying heats si me years ago 1 ■with happy results. < 1 By Fallacy Tanaka, a colt by Fallacy ll from Sue Scott, gained his first! win from three starts when he .was successful at Gloucester: Park, Perth, last week Raced by Mr H. M. Duncan, who paid $l9OO for him at the 1969 year-1; ling sales in Christchurch, he ' is trained by B. Cushing. : Mr Duncan, a member of lhe ’ committee of the Western Aus- * tralian Trotting Association, has ; just resumed racing horses 1 after a break of about seven 1 years and Tanaka is his first s winner. Earlier he won the West Australian Trotting Cup 1 with Dark David, David's Re- < ward and Superman. The ability shown by Tanaka 1 influenced Mr Duncan to attend < this year's yearling sales and 1 he bought a colt by Fallacy 1 from Winona for $2lOO. At Last ; Mighty DoHar wil have his 1 first start since December 30 1 at Reefton when he contests 1 the Stewards' Handicap at Wash- 1 dyke on Saturday. He has not ' been idle in the meantime, but ’ iin seven attempts he has failed to obtain a start, being either:; balloted out or eliminated, i 1 Many other horses, both pacers i and trotters, have week after h

week failed to secure a start, but it is doutful if any can equal the record of Mighty Dollar. Mighty Dollar, a winner as a three-year-old last season, has been placed in two of his seven starts this season. As well he has shown good form at trials and equalisator meetings, out this has apparently been no significance to club officials when they have selected their ifields. Full Supervision Cardigan Bay’s appearance lat the Timaru Trotting Club’s winter meeting at Washdyke on Saturday would be fully supervised. said an official of the (club at Oamaru. , “There will be no repetition of the sad state of affairs that prevailed at Forbury Park,’’ h*» said. Cardigan Bay spent many hours cooped in a small wireenclosed compound at Forbury Park, and from time to time persons, young and old. sat on his back, while some attempted to souveniir hairs of his mane and tail. Cardigan Bay is to be kept in a loose box until he parades and leads the field on to the track in the Cardigan Bay Handicap. After that he will be placed for a short time in a fenced-off area behind the main totalisator building. The top of the hurdles around the area will be padded. “If no attendant is available, :a steward of the club will stand I with him during the 30 minutes i or so he is on display,’’ said the lelub official.