TROTTING BREVITIES
Recent additions to Auckland stables Include Royal Palm., who is now trained by A. Bryce, and Atarau King, who is under the ca,re of C. M.l Morrison. '
Ecstatic, a three-year-old gelding by Jack Potts—Ecstasy, who was sent to Sydney some months ago by J. J. Kennerley, failed to win races on the trip, and returned to Lyttelton on Tuesday. ' This is a well-bred youngster, for Ecstasy was by Logan Pointer from 0.1.C., a successful brood mare.
The doings of Mustletone, the great American trotter now cleaning up a lot of big events'in Europe, have inspired admirers of that stallion to claim that he is the best of his gait at present racing in the world. The implied challenge has now been taken up by the owner of Greyhound, whose limn 57{sec as a four-year-old trotter has given reasonable prediction that Peter Manning's lmin 56ijsec may yet be lowered. Greyhound's owner wants the match over any distance from a mile upwards, to be decided in America.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 22
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