NOTES ON TROTTING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1932, Page 6

NOTES ON TROTTING

WINNERS AT HUTT PARK

■The only trotting meeting, to ...be .held "■this- week; is that of the Timaru Trotting Club, to take place on Saturday. Several horses that competed at Wellington appear among the acceptors, notably Midnight Sum, Rare Pronto, Aristotle, Actor, Wilbur White, .'Princess Mauritius, and Sister Rose. Luck ■would appear to be against locallyowned horses in the Wellington Gold Cup. In this year's contest Glenrossio, owned by Mr. J. McDonald, a steward of the dub, acted as runner-up. In 1928 Logan Park, owned by Messrs. R. A. Armstrong and. A. L. Johnson, was second to Silk Thread, and the following year the aamc horse wan beaten for the honour by Mate o Mine. In 1927 Holly Boy, in the same ownership,'had been third to Peter Bingen and Tom Thumb. Credit must be given to J. Shaw for the great improvement he has worked in Eoyal ,bilfc and the solid condition in which he turned him out for the New Zealand Trotting Gold Cup on Saturday. Royal Silk's victory, calls to mind the fact that his sire, the.imported Silk Thread, wou the event for Mr. J. E. McKenzie-in 1928 The concluding two events at Hutt Park on baturday-saw local owners and trainers come into their own, Mihad, who returned a half-century dividend, scoring n ¥ Tii 7-, F- Cotton, of Petone, and Brent Zolock,. trained by E. Maidment, notching victory for Mr. J. Sharpe, one of the oldest supporters of the trotting sport in Wellington. • Brent Zolock was bred by his owner being by Brent Locanda from his old .favourite Kate Zolock (Hal Zolock-Lady Kate). Trained and driven by ■■■. her owner, Kate Zolock, won races at-Nelson Wangamn in 1916 and 1917, and in 1918 driven by Dan' Nyhan, she won the Wanganui Trotting Cup. - ac In introducing the Hon. J. A. Young, Minister of Health, who presented the Gold Cup .to Mrs. Harrall at the Hutt Park on Saturday, the president of the ■ elub.vMr. J E. August, stated that the credit must be given to the late president , JYlr. R. A. Armstrong, for his consistent advocacy of catering for the very best class of, horses, which had enabled them to see a field of such quality as they had done that day. He stated .that, it was the intention of the club to place on;the h C ?fn? mw(V tS, neSt meeti"R, to be held on sth March, a race to be called the Armstrong Memorial, which:, would oe lor the same class of horses as had .^rnpetcd m the Gold Cup. The distance