TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 67, 16 September 1936, Page 15

TROTTING BREVITIES

Two light-harness events will be run at the AsTiburton County Racing Clubs MT^e nWa?kafo a TrotatTng Club's Spring Meeting will be held on Saturday WTh ke sum of £8381 was invested on the win machine, and £U,26C on the place, at Hiitt Park on Saturday. Epilogue was neglected in the betting at Hurt Park, and ran accordingly. She had shown previously, that fahe is hotter suited by firm footing. . The tidy sum of £1403! went into other!.channels- as a, result of Ginger Jack's decision not to, give his backers a run at the Wellington Meeting. There was only £13 invested on Royal Palm for a win in the Railway Handicap, but Waving Corn was_showing a win dividend of nearly double Royal Palm's return. Kraal was out in the lead for an early stage of the Wilfqrd Handicap at the Wellington Meeting, but she was soon bustled out of it, and was a long way from the money at'the finish. Logan's Pride, who was foaled as far back as 1924, is not likely to cut a respectable figure in the class that has proved beyond him for a long time past. He can still produce a turn of speed, but not when the whips are cracking. ' „ . .' Vain Lad is by Win Alto from Yam Lass, and although an aged gelding he«had not contested a race until he came to New Zealand. He has started only three times to date. Native Leaf began correctly in the two-mile trot at Hutt Park on Saturday, but did not hold her place for long, and was back in the rear after, half a mile.

The Oamarii Trotting Club will give £2310 in stakes on Labour Day. The principal events are the Oamaru Handicap, a 4min 31sec class with a stake of £550, and the Weston Handicap, a 2min 45sec class event worth £400. There is a £230 mile saddle event, a 2min 16sec class, and no event is worth less than £200. .

Rosalind, 2min ljsec, a daughter of Scotland, lmin 59|sec, and winner of this year's Hambletoman Stake, is out of Alma Lee, 2min 43sec,. dam also of Warwell Worthy. 2min 3£sec. Alma Lee was by Lee Worthy, 2min 2isec, a son of Lee Axworthy, lmin 58isec. Mr. T. G. Fox, who scored a most popular victory with Nelson Fox at the recent New Brighton Meeting, is retiring from his business at Addington, and he has decided to dispose of his horses: The horses to. be sold include Norman Fox, Desert Maiden, Bombay Girl, Renova, a six-year-old gelding by Jack Potts—Britt Audubon, and a bay mare, six years, by Drusus —Carbinea.

A two-year-old trotting filly by Frank Worthy from Harvest Money was recently sent from Canterbury to join F. J. Smith's stable at Takanini. It is bred on good trotting lines, and is engaged in the New Zealand Trotting Stakes (Timaru), 1938. Harvest Money is a three-quarter .sister to the wellperformed trotter Garner, and from the same family came two fine pacers in Talaro and Tom Thumb.

Included in the 26 three-year-olds left in the Timaru Trotting Stakes, to be run next March, is Mr. W. Johnstone's Peter Bingen—Reta Huon filly. She is trained at Epsom by C. G. Lee, and is a promising youngster. She is a well-mannered filly and has a very fine style, and solidness appears one of her chief characteristics. Her dam was a successful trotter, while Peter Bingen first raced at the trotting gait and was second to Peterwah in the Forbury Park Stakes, when the Gisborne trotter established a race record of 3min 3G 3-ssec.