TROTTING NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 3, 5 January 1926, Page 2

TROTTING NOTES

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Handicaps for the Wellington Meeting #re^ue op Tjfurs^ay. "Tbisi^twe'is set down for Saturday, £he 18th.'

Qf>yx was easily the mdst i>ppylar pcrfoTiiier ut Alexandra Part; an^^ljen she at last Tvon aftfer racing eopsi^tentjy; but ilhlucliily into niinor/Vplaces 1 t\x<E crowj gaye \\ey the qvatlfip oFtiie meeting!.Shu appeared to .thrive' op her "rac,jnf, and came up quite ifreeh fpr ihe njfle oij %bp last day, affe', liifvifyg rjin third ovci* two nilles only thfee'raccs earlier. Greafc' Bingcn fdund 1 thf task of ppn'ceiing' 12 yar^s to her t§(i miicp? ftfkd he iya? Mrell beaten into fojirfh place.' He was ha/v----sins hi* first" run' on that day." ;.

Nap)andi(»ve a taste of hit quality as' a trotter on the concluding day at Alex- ■' andrij Park. If %f- rapes a^pngit the paeejß at Hutt Park he should mpre th'aa hold his own. '"" ?"

- The wild deinonßtrution against Silk Thfefti} tin the lapj; <}ay of the Ancjtlipjl; Jlestlng apßfare4 qtiite iinjuitified, toranyone who had patched 'hig'eSqrts earlier in the meeting woujd bare realised that bad lytik cosf hjm a p'oeiible wimiing ,Mnce dn tije>con| d»y. A section of tjie cro\yd vgnte^i their feelings in a d^^mm«!!} famm Vt»t it ias to gp on record that the^ nj pouatgr deipn^raljoji prayjcal|y >s Ue^fil led by an individual *ho dwplajfet} a Bumper of totaligatpr ticjfgt* not qn Silk Thread. The ve'H-kiip^ti West Cfiast reinam|^, • V.'Alborn,'waß at Aldington each day, racing his ijoree, ipqlaen Deyon, whfl hjled' tp go up \p ettifcta^ofl?. Mppt^ gtd a ]pt pi wins mi fcmni at the recent meetings of the Westpprt and Inangahua ; Trfltting Clubs. Hew«»s comigtently in i tHe mOjiiey, t^piigh niosfly i 9V Wi®* \ KTacea, Bis re'cpf^ fe th£ thrge day^pie-; iiig'two wins, seven secondi, and e\ight' thirds. : There were three New Ze.a}and Trotting Cup winners in the principal race at the Park Meeting, last year's winner, beating Ahuriri, with Great Hope amongst the alsp-itartr ed divisipi?. Shqjjc wpn pn Wi merits. He w«s fov«ed tp cover fj Jpt 9? «5* r* ground, and was in frbnt a furlonf irom home. It was really.'»«|iw Petfofmanc^ and proves fliat he is 1 right Vac* tp. fl" best form. •-.. „ Peter Bingen won "the Islington Handicap at Addingtqn very comfortably. Over Bhort 'coitfses he must 4lwayS be treated' wif* respect. W^eii mqrc ed, ana wp, a gppd 0^! W Tney should not be beyond nim. --■ " ' After the P»rU Hp4»cap »t the Cantetbury Pavk Trotting Club ■ Meeting oh Saturday the Judttial Committee was called together to consider the dnyipg o£.Q. F... Hopper.«»:B»S?«>'» p\s being alle?aihst he maaTe an undue display Qf h"l| whi|J comiftg do+u the strai?ht at the finish of the race. . Hooper stated that he did not flourish hia whip. b\it hit it d.ownv4f, -iurt M malce' it-whistle besiSe' W{|!%rtr Further evidence was given by J. M Le""?; th* driver of the tecond how*, Dolly Dillon, who itated h« f M not interfered with' in «V *kj, and wji not affected an incli :W injtHiug"Hooptr did in the t&ce. It V** resolved to a^ a<Th«"moit «triWiig performwee •t tha ,C»nt*rb«rv Park Trotting CIuo« M«fth^ oh'Satufctay was that of Bonny L^in in winninf -the J«^»ph »»% cX«, her time, Smin 9 4-sscc,' being a lSe% Zeaiahd record for a mile in saddle. Sh«j showed a Wonderful burst' « «i>eed '«> the middle stages of the races, being in second place at" the *nd of fiv6 furlong*, and out in front, with the race" won, more than a furlong front home. Bonny Logan was bred by F. Holmes* who imported hfcr eire and datik, liogan Pointer' and Bonilcne, from America. Ever aince the started rating «nc has vhowtt a lot of tp«ed, atjd the ha» carried Mr. W. H. Norton* colour* with great consistency in rices run over a mile and a quarter. In most of these *b« hias been driven by F. Holme*, youn| son, Maurice, tyandjed her very capably in her winning effort on Saturday. She has not done much racing in saddle, but she was also successful in M. Holme*'* hands ji} a mile saddle e\fnt at the August meeting of'"the New Zealand Jtfelropolitnn Trotting Club. ' " "■