PACERS AND TROTTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 130, 29 November 1932, Page 4

PACERS AND TROTTERS

(By "The Eagle.")

The attacks on the mile record by Harold Xbgaii and' Todd" Lonzia proved a good draw card- for- the Forbury Park Meeting last week-end, and undoubtedly contributed largely to the success achieved by the club. Unfortunately. the" -weather proved none too - propitious, and though the rain ceased and a drying wind sprang up by 2.30, the time set for Harold Logan's attempt, the course was still holding and slippery in places, so it was generally recognised that the champion pacer would not be able to'lower the existing figures. Accompanied by a galloping pacemaker, Harold Logan covered the . half-mile in lmin .2 4-ssee, and came, home the last two furlongs in 30 3-oscc. His time for the mile was 2min 5 1-osec, which .was 4-ssec worse than his own record on the same track last season. By the time Todd Lonzia Made his attack on the trotting record the track was m much better order, and the son of Lorene Todd succeeded in lowering Revenue s_ record by 3-osec, registering 2ffiin 11 1-osce. . He i-an'the half-mile in lmin Ssee,. and the last.. two furlongs in. 32 <l-ssec. The'weather was, again unfavourable on Saturday, and a projected effort by Wrackler to establish a fresh trotting record had to be abandoned. . ° ; Sir' Guy, who has been remarkably consistent of late months; gained a wejl-de-served victory in the President's Handicap. Making a bad beginning and then breaking' :n the early stages of the race he was back in ninth position with half the journey, covered, but from-then on put in goodrwork to finally beat Wrackler by a head. On the second day, after being unplaced in the Forbury Handicap, woii by his bracket mate, Grand Canyon" Sir Guy won the final event, the Recovery Handicap, but in this race he and Gunfire whom he beat home by a head, were on the move when the tapes were released ana gamed an initial advantage which the others.could not make up. ' : Indianapolis, by his easy victory in the ; Caversham Handicap in 3min 20 l-ssec I showed that had he escaped bad luck in the^ Derby he would have been harder to beat. . ' ■ ,

Girvans win m the Progressive Handicap made three victories on. end for R lownleys pacer, but he only succeeded by a neck in beating the improving three-year-old Golden' Direct, who 4s not far from top class. Belle'Lorrimer (Nelson Bingen—Wildwood Junior mare), who 'showed cood form m the 1930-31 season, .'and did not race last season, made a return to form on Saturday by winning the Taiiiui Handicap, after running second to.' Taxpayer earlier in the day. ■ She is trained by Roy. Berry for,D. R. Revell. .■;-■*: The trotting- events^ at: the North Can-' terbury Eacmg. CJub Meeting; at Eiccarton on Saturday, drew,large, fields. : In'the u6^3?/- 11 Trot> ;Won the three-year-.old Dolhe Derby (Nelson Derby—Little Ivewpie) .'there were .twenty-six- starterss bhe had one previous unplaced/perform, ance this-.season.; There were twenty-two starters in the Ashfey Trot won-, by War Boat (Man-o'-War—lvy Dillon) The course ..was/a'sea'.of mud,' : S 6 the" forni m?y-' n°fc Prove; very Reliable.. ' ' 9™. ihe ptaki-ti'ained'Native Berry is en-gaged-in the Ragfan Handicap, one mile and a quarter, at the Waikato Meetin K on Saturday next, and should she run iip to' her form. at. the recent Wellington Meeting "will be. hard to' beat.: However, the daughter of Native King is not too reliable, at the barrier. . '•■■-"