TROTTING NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 23

TROTTING NOTES

(By "Vedette.")

The Gore Club's remit in regard to handicapping is sure of some very severe handling. .An Auckland Club official describes it as absurd. He adds: "... It is a ridiculous proposal to do away with handicapping, and we are asked to believe it will be. an improvement upon the existing system. The .direct effect of it would be contests that nobody would walk 100 yards to see. Just fancy a horse going out with upwards of 20sec the "bast of the others.- The public would not pay to see such an exhibition, You have only to take the Frec-for-AUs. , They do hot pay clubs, and a third-class handicap. will carry twiqe as much betting. And yet ithe -Gore proposal wants ' clubs ■to make Free-for-Alls—for that is what it would amount to—of- our maiden races. Free-for-Alls are doomed, and will soon disappear, from, all. programmes.. Whe-ther'Free-for-Alls'ard doomed is a matter of doubt, but the Gore Club's idea should be doomed from the start.

N. L. Price has. a team of six to work at Sockburn.. The majority of them are moving along to the satisfaction of. their trainer. They are. Kola. Boy, who has not been' up long,'but' is doing well; Transport, - lied OnK Ashley Dillon, a youngster by Logan Pointer. from Brown Bell, and a filly by Harold Dillon from Nordica. Surfboard has been returned to his owner, and is to be treated to a lengthy spell. '. Saddle races in future will not appear on -the programmes of the New Soiith Wales Trotting Club. ■ "' ' W. Kelsey will-leave for Perth at. an early date with Dean Dillon, and Eataua. 'The' Epsom trainer has made a present of Kean John to Mr. F. J. Docherty, who is using the old trotter for a buggy horse. - To sell a horse and then be called upon to make, the presentation of. a handsome ..cup won by that horse a few weeks later to the purchaser is' an. experience which falls to few. SDOrtsmeii. Such was the position Mr; H. F. Nicoll was in when he made the presentation of the gold cup attached to the" Adams Cup Memorial Handicap to Mr. G, .M'Millan, part-owner of the winner. Sea Pearl: ■ Only last month Mr. Nicoll sold Sea Pearl to Messrs. G. M'Millan and I). R. Revell, and in presenting the cup he expressed pleasure at having bred the winner, while he also congratulated the Auckland owners upon, their success. ' ; The. sum paid to the Government in the form of taxation in' connection with the -. Auckland Trotting Club's Winter Meeting amounted to '£7786 17s Id. made' up as follows:— Totalisat'or tax, 2Ms per cent., £2576 3s Gd; gates and privileges, £81 10s 6d; tax on stakes, £325; dividends tax; £4637 9s; amusement. tax, £160 14s. Id; total, £7736 17s Id. ■■."..