Trotting

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1934, Page 11

Trotting

MEETINGS TO COME. Sept. B—Wellington. Sept. '29—Methven. Oct. 6—New Brighton. Oct. 13—Waikato. Oct. 20, 22—Auckland. Oct. 20, 22—Greymouth. Oct. 22—Oamaru, Oct. 22— Manawatu. Oct. 27—Wellington. Nov. 6,8, 9.—N.Z. Metropolitan. Nov. 10—Te Aroha. Nov. 22, 24—Forbury Park. Nov. 24, 26—Nelson. When He Stops Pulling: Handicapper should do better with .racing, but he will make most improvement when he stops pulling so hard. To Abdicate: Worthy King did not make himself popular at New Brighton. In both his races .ho broke up badly, the second time causing no end of trouble to his field.

Tiny Guy: Has proved himself one of the speediest of track workers, but so far he has failed to do things right on race days. The first time he goes evenly throughout he will trouble his field. However, he may prove a costly proposition to follow before that happens.

Signs of Recovery: Young Travis showed some of his true form a‘t New Brighton, and only bad luck kept him out of the money. He should be in first-class order for Wellington next Saturday.

Renegade: Has gone close to winning several races, but each time he has fallen down on the job at the hard end. He was unlucky last Saturday to meet a greatly improved trotter in Header. Not Reliable:

The Auckland trotter Red Eagle suffers from stringhalt very badly, and although she can trot very fast for a novice trotter she is too unreliable to be a good betting proposition. Will Do Better: Gala Day has raced very consistently this year, but though having to concede long starts in her engagements invariably manages to fill a place. On a dry track Gala Day will soon make amends for her defeat at Epsom. A Promising Youngster: M. Morrison is putting in a lot of time at Otahuhu with a two-year-old colt by Jewel Pointer from Harvest Home, and the youngster handles himself in great style. He is owned by Mr. D.. Brideson, who also races the sire, Jewel Pointer. Another for War Buoy? The small field in the Bollard Memorial at Wellington next Saturday points to War Buoy having everything in his favour to continue his unbeaten record. On New Brighton running William Tell should again beat Worth v King, Harold Denver and Rey Spec, and although he looks to .be greatly improved War Buoy should carry too many guns for him and will see a short price. To Force the Pace: An interesting feature of the. twomile Free-for-All to be included in the Addington spring programme consists in the fact that a prize will be offered for the horse in front at the end'of the first half-mile, and another for the leader at the end of a mile and a-quar-ter. It is a new departure for a club to offer:prize-money with the object of forcing or tempting drivers to make a race true run from end to end. And it will be interesting to see how it works out in practice. Laws of Breeding:

Attorney has shown a determination to pace ever since he was a foal, against all the laws of breeding, if there are any hard and fast rules (writes “Ribbonwood” in the New Zealand Referee). Both his sire, Judge Hancock, and dam, Bridget Galindo, were born trotters, and never showed the slightest inclination to go at any other gait. Writer, who was first raced as a pacer, was converted to the trotting gait and is one of our best, although bred to pace more than trot. Every season it is becoming more noticeable that a breeder . can have little surety that the foals will, be of the gait he aimed at. The situation is not one to bemoan, but something to accept as inevitable. There were once separate trotting and pacing families, but the division to-day is almost wholly artificial. The trotter and pacer are not two separate entities, but different sides of the same thing.