TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 13

TROTTING BREVITIES

Excellent fields for the class are engaged for the Timaru Trotting Club's Meeting on Saturday.

Marlene has been useful to date, and she is not set an insuperable task in the Levels Handicap at Timaru on Saturday.

Frisco Boy and Blair Athol will carry support in the John Hole Handicap at* the Timaru Trotting Club's Meeting on Saturday. Both should improve a lot.

Peggoty, a recent maiden winner, looks like continuing her record in the Claremont Handicap at Timaru on Saturday. The opposition is ordinary.

Rongomai, a double winner at Epsom, has much better company to meet at Timaru on Saturday, but she should be in the money. She can begin.

A Wellington visitor to the Auckland Trotting Club's Meeting is of the opinion that Indianapolis, while not looking as well as he has done, showed some signs of returning form. He went a good race on the second day.

The racing Fremont had at Auckland was expected to benefit him. Berry has been patient with the American horse, who has shown speed suggesting that his present company will not know him long. He is engaged at Timaru.

The Nelson Trotting Cup, to be run on January 29, is worth £175, and is a 4min 48sec class. The second day's

card, February 1, includes the President's Handicap, £150, and the class is again tain 48sec. Nominations close on January 14.

The best daughter of the old champion Great Bingen to date is Crocus. Her 3m in 17 2-ssec at Epsom is one of the best mile and a half efforts ever returned there. She has not shaped like a stayer to date, but under F. J. Smith she should eventually get two miles successfully.

Waiknri Jack, who was placed in the Champion Stakes and won a race on the West Coast during the week, is a brother to Fine Art. A big future is predicted for Waikari Jack. Gold Kip has been placed in four of his last five starts, and gives the im■SßSfff?^ Rodney up at the Auckland Meeting, and he was never going like a winner in any of his three outings. Prior to the fixture he had been working really well, and was given more than a cn;"l':|--in the Rowe Handicap, but failed to go steadily, with the result that he was soon in a hopeless position.