TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 20

TROTTING BREVITIES

It is suggested by a Christchurch writer that Coherto needs a spell. Gold Tinge has always been prone to "think out a new one," and her latest was to run off the track when the pressure was on in the Winter Handicap. William Tell is getting on in years, and he failed to see out a mile at the Canterbury Park Meeting. He has not been up long after a spell, though. Ideal went well on the soft track at Addington on Saturday, but he did not stay on as well as was expected. Ideal has won over two miles on good ground, but he failed over a mile and a half at Addington in footing that was holding. • • , . Ginger Jack, who had'shown, impressive form prior to the Canterbury Park Trotting Club's Meeting, was sent out favourite for the Peninsula Handicap. He made a slow beginning, and never appeared happy in the soft ground, finally making a bad break when he had completed seven furSunny Jack, who is engaged in the light-harness events at Greymouth on Saturday, is a six-year-old gelding by Sungod—Four Chimes mare, and' is owned and trained by P. J. Lindsay. He started at the Cheviot Meeting and finished fourth in the Bollard Memorial Handicap, won by Alpine Prince. Guy Hugo is reported to be in better physical condition now than ever he has been, and he is a faster trotter than any other on his present mark. Although he ran second in the soft ground on Saturday he would have won had the track been firm, Guy Hugo is now in a handy class, and Should find plenty of races to suit him early next season. . When a two-year-old, Repeal was one of the most promising--young-horses In training. In a -trial he showed twominute speed (says the "Star-Sun"), and at that time a prosperous career was predicted. He lost form during his next year, but regained his condition when he was four, and won a race or two at Greymouth. In the sort ground at Addington on Saturday, he led all the way, and won the Peninsula Handicap without being extended. He is approaching his sixth birthday, and, being by Native King from Olive Turmoil, he may do better next season, as this breed has been better as a rule for a bit of age.