TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 13

TROTTING BREVITIES

King's' Warrior looked sick and sorry the day after his fall in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, and. could not start again at the meeting. < • Debutante earned her. expenses at Addington, and in good company. She looks sure to pay her way when started again in her right class. . Willow Wave and Worthy. King would go well in double harness—they always execute some new steps at the start before taking any interest in the job on hand. Agile gave signs of returning sprint form in his final .race, at Addington, and if he goes south to the Forbury Park Meeting he may get some more money on one of his favourite tracks. Evicus was a boomed track worker before Addington. She worked a mile and a half in something equivalent' to~ 3min 14sec, but could not go

within- seconds rot "itrdn the: Cup op any other race at the meeting. Golden Eagle wai • big disappoint* ment in the trotting events at Adding.ton, her lack of stamina, not lack of condition, being her downfall in the class she has now reached. Up to a mile and a half, however, she will always be a force to reckon, with. Ginger Jack raced for a long time like a horse who had lost his confidence, and it is to be hoped that this one-time brilliant pacer will continue to race as solidly as he did when second to Toorak in the Australasian Handicap at Addington on Friday. IJ is not so long ago that Ginger Jack was considered to hava ft bri^itef- nature than Luc*.;* Jack. The fact that Wahnooka had to take the outside running in the Dominion Handicap may have made the difference between first and second. Wahnooka has not been a good horse for the public to follow, but'over the last two years he has developed the solidity and staying.power of a near champion. Frisco Boy is the, most improved five-year-old in the; country, and he is fur- ■ nishing into a solid gelding. This Jack Potts youngster has taken time to become solid, but ..he is now improved in every way, and is bettergaited than he was in one or two of his races.as a three-year-old. Roi lOr is now fourteen years old, and retains his brilliance remarkably well. It is understood that his mission was to win the Free-forrAll and go into retirement in the same blare of glory as did Harold Logan, but Supertax undid that, and now his owner may keep Roi lOr going for the Inter-Dominion Championships. <- Ciro and Casanova are full-brothers, and they have both djsgraced themselves on numerous occasions." They were reputed to be so fast that all races were bound to fall'to them if they only went right. But they have done it right only now and again, and, as of ten happens; when they have done it right their alleged greatness has been reduced to mediocrity. Many considered that Graham Direct was unlucky not to win a race at Addington, but when supporting a horse like the Rey de Oro gelding the wager has to be made both ways, one as to whether he will leave tha mark, and the other as to whether he is the champion some people say ht. is when he does everything right. .