PACERS AND TROTTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 62, 15 March 1933, Page 6

PACERS AND TROTTERS

SOME RECENT WINNERS

(By "The Eagle.") As events turned out, there were no solid • grounds for the fears expressed by the Timaru Trotting Club that the granting of permission to the Wairarapa T.C. to race at Hutt Park on the same date as the southern club would prove a serious drawback to its meeting. Both elubs_ had very successful meetings, showing increased to'talisator turnovers, and there were plenty of horses to compete at both fixtures.

The trotting mare Esther, who won the Kingsdown Handicap at Timaru, gave a very solid display when under a hard drive to hold off Alf Parrish in the closing stages. Esther, who is only a four-year-old, is by . Sonoma Harvester from a Harold Dillon mare, and has done very little racing, having' had. her first start at New Brighton in December last. She promises to develop jnto a high-class trotter.

Desert Maiden, who won the Short Handicap at the Wellington T.C; Meeting in October, when trained by W. J. Tom&inson, has of late been trained by her owner, Mr. T. "Eos. Her double victory at Tunaru on Saturday was very popular. The.big daughter of, Sheik and Lovebird, who was driven by J. J. Kennerley, gave a promising. showing, . and looks like furnishing into a good stayer with age. — ' ■ ' ■ . Girvan still continues his successful | run, and Saturday's win at Timaru was his sixth victory in succession. Though unfashionably bred, being by Lee Thorpe —Tracy Maid, the performances of R. Townley's pacer prove him to be a good one, and by winning over two miles in 4min 32sec from a 4niin 43sec * mark he showed that his winning sequence is not ended'yet. The six-year-old King's Cup (John Dillon—Kissing Cup), trained by the Pleasant Point trainer, D. Teahen, is holding bis form in striking fashion this season. Saturday's win made liis fifth this season, in which period he has also scored three seconds and a third, with only one .unplaced, performance. In winning the 2min 55sec class Wai-iti Handicap King's Gup registered faster time (2min 45 2-58601 than did Eureka Boy (2min \iß 3-ssec),'who' won the Washdyke Handicap,: an Bsec faster class event. : Though the track at Timaru must have been in . very fast order, the performance of Sunny Morn, who followed up his double win- at Wellington by recording 4min 22"2-ssec from 4min 31sec when running second to Great Chenault, was a striking. one, and shows the great improvement made .. by O. E. Hooper's charge of late.