TROTTERS AND TROTTERS!

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 15

TROTTERS AND TROTTERS!

The trotters raced at the Wellington Trotting Club's Summer Meeting were as ordinary a lot as one would expect; to see for the class. Trotters have been referred to as the pure-gaited performers of the light-harness world, because they do not require all manner of gear like the pacers, or lateral-gaited horses; but the description is used m a very wide sense, and does not maKC allowance for some of the exhibitions STs a"ta££» SEW who showed himself to be an unqualified success w™ Worthy Star. The only time he elected to keep to his correct gait he won over two miles by a wide margin but in his other races he had a go at all the gaits known to racehorses of all branches. At his last appearance Worthy Star galloped off the mane, continued at that gait for half a mile, was no sooner got under control than he jumped into a .pace, and after other patches of galloping was eventually persuaded to do something resembling a trot. He is in the hands of an efficient trainer, and is one of the hardest cases L F. Berkett had had to deal with in his long experience. Don Giovanni, the biggest horse racing in the country, does not give the impression of rhythm and perfect coordination of movement. This ungainly gelding simply flounders along, Sever repeating the same set of rieps. arid the length of his stride is his great--Ist asset What little trotting action! he can lay claim to is totally submerged by imperfections of gait that lead one to suggest that he would, have been a greater success in another sort of vehicle, in another walk of he best of the trotters was undoubtedly Little Beta, who shows more ionably-bred American stallion she is out of Beta's Greeting, by Petereta | (imp.), sire of some of our best trot, ters, ainong them Reta Peter (dual New Zealand Cup Winner) and Peter Swift (Dominion Handicap). Reta's Greeting was out of Welcome, dam of several winners. . Waikato Prince could not have been at his best, or he would have gone nearer the form that made him .one ot the most discussed trotters , in the North Island last season. He could not go the early part of his races, but in two of them showed more speed than anything else over the last mile His breeding does not suggest .anything out of the ordinary, but it. is quite: evident that there is a period.of usefulness before the son of Flonzel and a Finwater mare. . Fairy Brooks, who contested the fom trotting events for a first, second, and third, is an aged mare of obscure breeding, and her success, while well earned and popular, emphasised the weakness of the fields. There is not much in front .of her.