TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1937, Page 7

TROTTING BREVITIES

: ■ Bismuth, Royal.Palm, Munga Tangi, Bedford, and Kewpie's Crest have been doing well in Epsom' trials.' .

King's Play,: who had.. designs on some hot Canterbury company earlier in the season, is being picked as the hardest to beat in the principal events at Auckland. , M. Stewart, formerly of M. B. Edwards's stable, who is training Mr. W.

Johnstone's horses, has King's Play, Lady Fame, Transfer, and Transworthy engaged: at Auckland. King's Play is the early favourite for tne Adams Memorial J Cup, while Lady Fame is expected to be soJidly supported for tne Cornwall Handicap.

Kenworthy, one of the Waikato candidates in the Cornwall Handicap, is a fine young pacer, who has made splendid progress in the last few months. Prior to being unplaced in the Coronation Cup at Claudelands, Kenworthy had not missed a place in ten starts, and he won tha 'J aranaki Trotting Cup for P. V. Cults very easily.

According to an Auckland writer, F. J. Smith was well pleased with the performances of his norses, ,Sandusky and Nervie's Last, at Ashburton, but complains that he was not in the sulky when the word to go was given m the Sapling Stakes. Smith may not have been quite ready for the. start, but it was his own fault, and he was given every opportunity by the starter, says the "Press." ...

Swordsman has earned a bad reputation because of his breaking in races, but according to latest reports he is trotting more solidly than ever before, and he may have to be reckoned with in the Stewards' Handicap on Saturday. Swordsman has a lot of speed, but in races where steadiness of gait is the main consideration he has not been the ideal racehorse to date.

The best method of introducing young blood into the light-harness game is to provide saddle aces, Iby which some of the most successful reinsmen became associated with th£ game, says "Sentinel." P. Holmes, prior lo prominence as a trainer and reinsman, came into the light-harness game through becoming too heavy to ride the thoroughbreds. Numerous others such as D. J. Price, R. Read, E. McKewen. R. Allan, M. Allan, J. Allan, W. Jones, R. B. Berry, and others all graduated from racing stables per medium of saddle races, and so augmented the ranks of reinsmen. What was a good recruiting ground in the past should be equally good in the future.