CONVERTED PACERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 22, 26 July 1939, Page 15

CONVERTED PACERS

During the season several pacing horses were converted to the trotting gait, and among those successful after the change-over were Llanvabon;' alf &S oy *** Mohlcan- «4 Provision is made in the rules of the handicapping system for allow--f,^ sd° h£ rses with PacinS records' who have been converted to< the' square-gaiters' department, the • con-' cession being based on the two-mil^ E*v?2? mar.k' Horses handicapped on a 4.50 or slower pacing mark receive an allowance of 6sec as trotters, thoseassessed from .4.49 or 4.43 receive 7sec.-' and from 4.42 to 4.35 the concessit is Bsec. Pacers in the 4.34 or faster section are allowed 9sec " The mile and a half 'mark is de-' r,!?£L ai the K® which the con--ed rse. ls Placed in the process of apportlomng the two-mile mark For instance, the northerner Royal' Palm, who will next race as a trotter,' is on Line 12, a 4.50 pacing mark. The1 allowance will place hir£ on 4.56 2 * f %°s QV\ with a corresponding mark: of 3.41 at a mile and a half. . - If reconverted to the pacing gait SPSSi^E? TetumJ° thei/old SfcaS* Zi y^l *?£ ass essed according to their £ L tS oti m S two-mile • assessment, i£ ™.il S ter' thaP the Previous ~tWomile pacing mark. ; being tried at the pacing gait are assessed on the pacers' table* ma?k ding t0 their tWo*mile' trotting

„i£ n "^resting entry for the middle* class unhoppled races at Addinctorf making his first appearance since beinir purchased by a patron of a S. DoS ?i ds sta£ le at th© conclusion of the JSriT 8!? P 0?^8 Club's MJetgg'g April. At his last start he conceded » useful field of trotter! 144ya^' start and finished thii-d, registering 4mia . 33sec. On that display he should not' be difficult to place to advantage ia the south, as the son of Worthy Bin* gen possesses both speed and stamina above the average.