TROTTING.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 140, 28 May 1928, Page 2

TROTTING.

HAWKE’S BAY CLUB. ACCEPTANCES DUE TO-NIGHT. Owners and trainers of trotters are reminded that acceptances fur all events of the Hawke’s Hay Trolling Club’s winter mooting, to.lie held :i7. Hastings on'Monday,* June-4, close with the secretary (Mr A. K-Palmer) to-night (Monday) a, 8 o'clock.

GENERAL NOTES

Nukumai was raced at Wanganui but he failed to get into.the money. However, he should be all right a little later on, for he only resumed racing at the Egmont meeting alter being off the scene since last October. Last season Nukumai proved hard to dispose of, both on the flat and ovei hurdles, and his winning of two flat races (including the Parliamentary Handicap and the Winter Hurdles) at the last Wellington winter meeting is a record that will take some beating. Nukumai is engaged at the Otaki meeting next month.

The good form displayed by Bourn when he scored in the Raglan Hurdles on the concluding day of the Waikato meeeting, is not likely to be lost sight of by racegoers when the Cambridge-trained gelding next appears in public. Bourn won in very decisive fashion at Te Rapa, and in a similar class should have no great difficulty in repeating the performance.

The three-year-old filly by Day Comet from Flare Gun in R. Hall’s stable will race as Onewhero. This filly is a half-sister to Antrim Boy, who raced with a fair amount of success in the Auckland district, and recently won three races down in the the South Island district where he is now owned.

Although there has been some uncertainty as to who would ride Beau Cavalier in the Great Northern Steeplechase a decision has been made, and J. Mcßae has been selected to pilot the crack steeplechaser in the cross-country event next month. This horseman rode Beau Cavalier in each of his hurdle races at the Auckland summer meeting.

F. Tilley will have several of his team racing at the Otaki meeting, and if the Wanganui running of Glenross and Avro can be taken as a guide they should pick up sortie stake money. Glenross will be a', mucil harder horse to beat/than he was in the Connolly Handicap at Wangaauj. Avro was sedbnd to Bisox oil the second day. ■. ■ • ’. >

Archibald continue* to infuse plenty of dasn into his work and seems to be near the form that enabled him to run so well in the hurdle events at Ellerslie last winter, when he finished second in both the. Great Northern Hurdles and the Remuera Hurdles. As against 10.7 lust year, he has 10.12 in the Great Northern Hurdles this time and may require to do a bit better than last year to win. Nevertheless' he is likely to run a good race and .may not be far away at the finish.

The opinion. that- the time between races was too long was expressed- at the annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club. Mr. J. S. Barrett said that he thought publicity should be given to the intention of the club to forward a remit to the Racing Conference designed to shorten the time between races. Ho was sure the proposal would meet with the approval of members. Forty minute® between races and fifty minutes for lunch were, he thought, too long. Thirtyminute intervals had been suggested, and the remit now provided for thirty-five minutes. No club, however, was ;oing to take the initiative of chancing it. It might mean that they need not start till after lunch. In Sydney he had attended a race meeting, that had started at 12.15 and finished at 4.15. and there had been thirteen races in that time. “So you see,’ ho added, ‘it can be done.’ Mr. George Gould agreed that they did take too long between races. One club alone, however, could not educate the public, who had certain habits. It would be desirable if the trotting people would move in the same direction. They would help very largely if they did so. * * * J. Cammiek, who has been riding with marked success during the present season, will ride Corinax, Thursby and Respirator on the first day of the Auckland winter meeting In a schooling bout over five hurdles on the outside of the course proper at Ellerslie on Thursday morning Archibald easily accounted for Aberfeld. outjumping his southern rival at every fence. From a time point of view the performance was good, and Archibald finished up his task very strongly, being a number of lengths clear of Aberfeldv at the end of the bout.