TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 133, 2 December 1937, Page 17

TROTTING BREVITIES

New Brighton and Waikato Meetings on Saturday. Waikato Prince has better staying credentials than the pacers qpposed to him in the Wainoni Handicap. Plutus and Blair. Athol, with Renown's Best, represent the best recent form of the limit horses in the Mace Memorial Handicap at Brighton. Aide de Camp is perfectly placed in the Bowhill Handicap to keep up his fine average. He is a better beginner than Parisienne, who is usually slow1 in the early part of a race. Grattan Girl and Cherrill are two of the main fancies for the Farewell1 Handicap, the mile saddle event at Waikato- on Saturday. Grattan Girl may repeat for F. J. Smith the success of Levity in the same event last year. Pageant dOr has not raced for years. He has been a pacer and a trotter, and took a mile record of 2min 8 2-ssec as a pacer. Few faster horses have raced, but few as unreliable either. Mr. J. Richardson has purchased the impoiied mare Real the Great, who is in foal to Quite Sure. Real the Great was got by Caduceus the Great, a son of Peter the Great. The Frank Worthy gelding Intrigue, who won at Ashburton, is owned by Mr. J. R. McKenzie. Escapade, the dam of Intrigue, was got by Nelson Bingen—Country Belle, winner of a New Zealand Cup. Gay Lady, who finished in a place in the Melrose Trot, run at Ashburton, is a four-year-old filly by Jack Potts from Logan Princess, by Logan Pointer. Logan Princess is also the dam of Regal Voyage. The fact that Francisco started favourite at Ashburton shows that the stable has not lost confidence in her ability to travel. She has been doubtful at. the barrier, and apparently an improvement has been worked in her manners. The brood mare Kewpie has produced a colt foal to- Peter Bingen. this being her tenth offspring. Of seven to race, five have proved good winners, namely. Kewpie's Guy, Kewpie's King, Kewpie"s Crest. Kewpie's Triumph, and Kewpie's Bond. The two-year-old by Jewel Pointer from Kewpie has been sold by J. Gee to a patron of F. J. Smith's stable. The "Horseman and Fair World," of October 27, reports that R. Smith, of Los Angeles, is shipping two horses to New Zealand. They are the three-

year-old pacer Getaway, by Peter Volo,. and Belwin Axworthy, a trotter of the same age, by Belwin. Greyhound, in America, is a wonderful trotter, but the New Zealand authorities were under no guarantee that the horse would produce his best form if brought to New Zealand. At the best it was a risky proposition, and much as the public would like to see a world's champion in action, the price was too big to pay. Our Peggy failed twice at Epsom at a mile and a half, being beaten only in the final pinch, and a shorter journey at Waikato should be to her advantage, while Lord Wrack, who has done very little racing for some time, attracted attention by his good third in the Members' Handicap at Awapuni. His 2min 48 l-ssec was a shade smarter than Nawton Parrish's effort at Thames.

Musketeer's success at Thames was a meritorious ■ one,. as he had a lot of ground to make up In the final stages, and only a horse of speed, • stamina, and courage could have accomplished the task, says "Abaydos." He ran 4min 32 4-ssec. but is likely to reduce the time several points. , In spite of the failure of Crocus in her only two miles effort, she cannot be discarded, and, if produced in the form that won over shorter journeys at Epsom, she should be in the picture. The CrocusMusketeer bracket should find solid support at Waikato.