RACERS AND TEOTTEES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 6

RACERS AND TEOTTEES

(By "The Eagle.") In framing the programme for the Summer Meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club, to be held on January 13 next, it was decided to allot £400, with no trophy attached, to the principal event, hitherto known as the New Zealand Trotting Gold Cup, and under the circumstances to change the name of the race for this year only to the Summer Handicap. At the meeting of the 3oard of the New Zealand Trotting Association, held on Friday evening last, an application was received from the Wellington Trotting Club to have the name, the New Zealand Trotting Gold Cup, protected until next season.1 After considering the matter the board decided to accede to the club's request. About twelve months ago, owing to his having developed a habit o£ falling in his races, it was decided to place. the; pacer Ayrmout Chimes on the, schooling list, which debarred him from starting; in any races.. An application being before the Board of the Trotting Association to havo his name removed from the list, he was given a trial with five other horses at Addington on Tuesday last over a niile and a half under race conditions. The son of Cathedral Chimes did not put a foot wrong in the trial, beating his companions easily in Sinin 18sec. When the application was before the board on Friday even? ing last, Messrs. J. R. McKenzie and W. Hayward, members of the licensing committee, who were present at the try-out, reported very favourably thereon, Mr. McKenzie stating that the horse was driven in and out among the other competitors exactly as though racing through a field. It was decided by the board to remove the horse's name from the schooling list. It will be remembered that at the September Meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club last season Ayrmont Chimes wort a double—the if ollard Memorial and Wellington Handicaps. These were the last wins' recorded by J. Bryce's horse before being placed on the list. Backers of Gay Gordon, the favourite for the Mace Memorial on Saturday last, were unlucky, as he broke when the barrier was released, losing about' 60yds. Once he settled down lie made a good effort to recover lost ground and with a mile and a half covered had got up handy to the leaders, but could not sustain his rim over the finishing stages. He can still be kept iii mind for a two-mile race. Prince Author' (Author Dillon—Disappearance), who scored a sequence of five wins for W. J. Doyle on the West Coast last summer, made a good start for the present season by winning the Saltaire Handicap at New Brighton in good 6tyle, and looks likely to go on to further successes. ■ ■■ . J. Bryce, jun., is given credit for a good display of horsemanship when he got Denver City home a head in front of the; grey gelding Accras in the Electric Handicap, the mile saddle event at New Brighton. The win of Denver City, who is now trained by N. L. Price, was well received, as his owner, Mr. B. F. Spiers, had not had much luck with him of late: Logan Park got his name on the winning list again in the second heat of the Fremantle Cup, run at the Fremahtle

T.Ci Meeting at Perth on the evening of November 25. The race caused some excitement as tho leader over the first circuit, Wee Wallace, fell, bringing down four others, one of whom, Thecla Wood, broke her neck. The mishap left only three horses on their feet, and Logan Park, who had started from 144 yds, won from Loeanda Prince and Myrtle Queen. Logan Park was a good second favourite. In the final, run on November 27, Ipana, who was the- most attractive winner in the five heats, started favourite, and won from Pietre Dudley and Royal Gold; Logan Park being unplaced. The race was worth £500 and a ten-guinea trophy. The winner of the final received £175, and in each heat the winner received £40 and second horse £10. Logan Park is among tUs'66 horses who have made the first payment for the .W.A. Trotting Cup, to be run on December 23 and 20. He is the back-marker on 114 yds. A big effort 's being made to popularise the trotting sport in Melbourne, and at a recent meeting the mili record was broken by Auburn Lad, a son of Globe Derby, in W. McKay's stable, who won from 48yds behind in 2min 13% sec. Four seconds being deducted, for the extra 48yds covered, be was '.redited with doing 2min 9%sec. A special prize of. £10 hud been offered for any horse lowering the record of 2min 12 ]4sec held jointly by Walla Wnlla and Direct Homo. At a recent Melbourne meeting, the ex-New Zealander Bren'.lpc won the Flying Handicap, from 48yds i.. great style from Golden Pedro and Indian Bells. In his last appearance in New Zealand, at the Metropolitan Club's Spring Meeting in November, 1929, Brentloc, who is by Brent Locanda—Sash wood, won the Sprinters' Handicap, one mile, in 2min 8 4-ssec.