TROTTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 139, 13 June 1940, Page 13

TROTTING

GREAT JEWEL TOP

SEASON'S WINNING PACERS

(By "Ariki Toa.")

The Auckland owner, Mr. D. Brideson, has experienced a particularly good season with the Jewel Pointer f. gelding Great Jewel, who is at the top t of the winning horses for the season f with £2850. In all Great Jewel has '" started on 19 occasions for eight firsts, s two seconds, and three thirds. He is c a very fine performer over all dis- " tances, and it is to be hoped that his | recent spell has improved his barrier >- manners, as he is certain to add inter r I- est to the tight classes next season, n Permit Allotted. 0 The totalisator permit recently abani- doned by the Marlborough Trotting 1 Club has been allotted to the Timaru »- Club, which will probably hold a meetit ing on June 29 in aid of the patriotic •s funds. ; May Prove Costly. Owners of other rising three-year-olds will be pleased to note that Special Force was not nominated for the New Zealand Trotting Derby, art omission that looks like proving costly to his owner. Special Force was a December foal and was very small at birth, and this is possibly the reason for the omission. Requires Solidness. , Millisle has established a great re- j cord this season with eight wins, but several of his displays have not marked him as a very reliable proposition. A tendency to break at the start is not going to assist his prospects from the mark he is now handicapped on, but dt is possible that the experience will help to eradicate this fault. * Would Improve. The Australian pacer Heroic Prince was given a run at Addington, and he shaped fairly without ever looking like taking any real part in the finish. However, the race is sure to do him a lot of good, and he may prove worth keeping in mind for a race early in the new season. Marks of Juveniles. For his success in the Canterbury Juvenile Stakes and New Zealand Sapling Stakes, Special Force has been reassessed to Line 16, which represents marks of 2.20, 2.56, 3.32, and 4.46. Another leading two-year-old, Walter Moore, has been put on marks of 2.23, 3.0, 3.37; and 4.53. Ronald Logan's second in the Sapling Stakes incurred a. reassessment to Line 2, which represents marks of 2.27, 3.4, 3.42, and 5.0. N.Z. Success. The King's Park Plate, chief event at Gloucester Park, Perth, last month, resulted in a dead heat for first between the New Zealand-bred pacers Tempest, 48, and Kay Francis, 36, with the favourite, Spot Dance, well back third. Tempest, who registered a 2.11J rate for the 13 furlongs, has now registered five firsts, three secondsrand eight thirds since going to West Australia, while Kay Francis has been successful on 13 occasions. Both pacers are similarly bred, being by Wrack, from Logan Pointer mares. Race Interference. "It is the experience of members that in some cases witnesses are prone to shield a driver and either colour their evidence or give a reason which is not the true one for interference reported," states a circular letter from Mr. W. H. Larcombe, secretary of the New Zealand Trotting Conference, issued *to trotting club secretaries and, secretaries of racing clubs with trotting races on their programmes. "At a recent/meeting of the Trotting Association," says the circular, "several cases of interference by drivers were reported. In each case the action g,oi the club was endorsed, but in some instances the members were not satisfied that the witnesses had disclosed the real reason which caused the accident. Accidents from interference in the past have caused very serious injuries to drivers, and the association asks all clubs, when a case of interference comes before them, to ascertain as far as possible whether the interference was caused (a) wilfully, (b) by neglect of driver, or (c) by reason of the horse boring. "The association would like clubs, whether they inflict punishment or not, -to report to the association any case where the judicial committee is of the opinion witnesses have endeavoured, by colouring their evidence to shield the driver responsible for the accident and also whether the interference was caused by. the horse boring, so that the association can take appropriate action." Not Harmful. There is an impression in certain, quarters that early racing is harmful to trotters and pacers, but a glance through the list of winners of the New Zealand Sapling Stakes will show that many of our best racehorses were champion two-year-olds, says a Christchurch writer. It should be remembered however, that the Sapling; Stakes is run very late in the season, and the contestants are approaching their third birthday. After racing m the Sapling Stakes the majority are given a let-up for several months before being asked to contest the next classic, the New Zealand Derby. Among the winners of the Sapling Stakes are hoßses that have later entered the best class, and the number includes Doraldina, Childe Pointer, Ahuriri, Taurekareka, Kohara, Arethusa, Silver de Oro, War Buoy, and Parisienne. Ahuriri was twice successful in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, Kohara also won the race, and War Buoy was twice placed, while Parisienne, one of the greatest mares ever raced in New Zealand, was acclaimed the outstanding performer in the Inter-Dominion Championships held at Addington.