TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 13

TROTTING BREVITIES

There is not much of Icevus, who looks a pony, but he was not far away from the money in the Progressive Handicap at Forbury. Wrackler raced as a pacer in the Dash Handicap at Forbury, and was prominent all the way. He was close up fourth, and paced in his best style. Frank Best is an Auckland novice whose placed performances point to. his having a winning turn at the Waikato Meeting. ■ , Casanova was beaten at Forbury Park both days, but the fact of his registering 3min 16 3-ssec, one of the fastest mile and a half performances ever registered on the track, and easily the best done in his class there, will keep him on side. Tawny, a surprise winner at Forbury Park on Saturday, is a seven-year-old gelding by Nelson Derby from a mare by The Lark. He had only one previous minor success at Cromwell, Central Otago, to his credit, and was then trained by his owner, Mr. E. Sanders, at Alexandra. Gold Salute, ' from > 36yds behind, finished sixth in the Progressive Handicap at Forbury Park. He is a brother to Roi lOr and should win races this season. He is attached to J. Henderson's stable at Oamaru. . Impromptu, who has been retired several times, is undergoing a preparation at Hamilton for the Auckland Trotting Cup. Impromptu has records of 2min 4 l-ssec and 2min 39sec, while he ran 4min 18 2-ssec when lourth to Roi lOr, Worthy Light, and Blue Mountain in the 1934 Auckland Trot-four-year-old filly by Acron —Molly Doone, purchased recently in Christchurch by Mr. E. G. Bridgens, »s the latest addition to F J. Smiths team at Takanini. Accel had two starts as a two-year-old and three last season without gaining a place, but, like the rest of Acron's progeny, she may improve with age. ~ Bolinda King, who last season displayed fine form on the west coast circuit and won the President's Handicap at Awapuni from a smart flelooi sprinters, is among the entrants for the Te Kowhai Handicap at the Waikato Meeting. Bolinda King is not big, but he has a good turn of speed. The Spring Handicap at Forbury, won by Lucky Jack, was a solidly-run race, as the winner went 3min 7 2-ssec on a slow track from a 3min losec mark. Tairene, the dam of Lucky Jack, was got by Wildwood Jun. from Jessie 8., by Smith O'Brien, a thoroughbred "half-brother to Tasman, the winner of the first New Zealand Cup, writes "Sentinel." Tairene is also the dam of Dundas Boy, 4min 22 3-ssec, Trenand, Real Girl, Dundee, and other winners. . .. When it was suggested in these columns that the last New Zealand Cup should be restricted to horses on 4min 25sec and better, there was a storm oi protest from more than one southern quarter. As things turned out, horses i further back than that filled threeNpf ■ the four places—lndianapolis, 48, Red Shadow, 24, and Harold Logan, 48 (fourth). It is predicted now that it may be found necessary next year to make the class 4min 24sec to guard against an unwieldy field.