TROTTING NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 64, 17 March 1927, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

(By "Vedette."') Nominations for the Wanganui Trotting Club's Meeting close to-morrow. Great" Bingen by hia wonderful effort on Tuesday at Addington has once more v demonstrated that he truly deserves the first half of his name. It is doubly pleasing that such a whole-hearted supporter of trotting as Mr. J. K. M'Kenzie should own such a horse, for the light' harness game could do with more owners of that type. Mr. M'Kenzie has put a great deal of money- into his trotting establishment, and he is deserving every success. Mr. J. R. M'Kenzie's horses are not generally regarded as racing machines pure and simple, for two of them in Great Bingen and Silk Thread have already contributed very largely to worthy charitable objects, states the "Press." Last November Great Bingen Won the Free for AH at Addington, and Mr. J. R. M'Kenzie generously gave his share to the Lady Truby King Fellowship. Silk when he won the Armstrong Handicap at Wellington, was also working in the interests of the babies, for the £350 won then was subsidised another £150 by Mr. M'Kenzio and given to the -Karitane Fund. Mr. J. R. Corrigan appears to have a young horse of more than average promise in Explosion, who has won easily at his last two starts. Explosion's latest exploit >was to score decisively in the Urenui Handicap at New Plymouth, going two miles m 4.55 2-5. Explosion "is a three-yea,r-old colt by Nelson Bingen from that good mare Ena Bell, and he is bred the right way to go on improving. Few horses are more strenuously raced than Van Rich, and he has done a considerable. amount of travelling and racing m the past, fortnight. Still he wns equal to notching a couple of minor placiiiKs at New Plymouth last Saturday, and he must be a very hardy horse to stand up to it in the manner he does. , "enand must be one of the unluckiest horses racing, and he has been narrowly beaten on numerous occasions in important races this season. On Tuesday he was unfortunate, enough to strike Great ...Bingen in his best form, and once again he was relegated to second place. Trenands consistency must surely receive its due reward.