TROTTING.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 117, 15 May 1912, Page 3

TROTTING.

A BRJLLIANT PERFORMANCE. The winter meeting of'tlie Forbury Park Trotting Club will long bo reniembered among colonial trotting enthusiasts on account of the brilliant .performance of the Ashburtou maie Emmeline. On the first day in an attempt to beat the track record (2min 11 -l-ssic) she paced a mile in liuin 5.3-ssec, thus equalling the Aus- -', tralasian record established at Addingtou last'year by the stallion King ' Cole. Then she: added still further to her reputation by winning the Winter Oftts Handicap from scratch, and covering two miles in 4min 30----sec, establishing a fresh Australasian record, the previous best being 4niii» ,33sec, by King Cole at Addingtou last August.- Emmeline, who was .bred at Ashburton by Mr R. Donnell, who has trained arid driven her in all her races as a five-year-old, is by Rothschild—one of the most successful sires of speed-producers that New Zealand has seen.' ■ Her dani^ Imperialism, vra& ■gbt vi-by.-:-i*ririe«---:-Imi>eiial"; v'"a.i-Tefy;'la^."';;.--'. horse, and the sire of-a host of big ■vqiihevsy from Shamrock, by the Tracluceiv horse Dexte* from a mare by Hornby.' Emmelin&'s pedigree is therefore rich in successful tiptting, blood, :hesides having -two thoroughbred strains through Traducer and Hornby—the , latter a Canterbury Derby wiiiner, as was his sire, Songster, by -Toivtonv' Emmeline's , form daring the present season has been, consistently good,; She. won; a mileand a-quafter' racjo afc:Addingt'on in November, and was successful: over v a similar.coiirse at'Ashhurton on Box- \". ing'■' Day,.. getting off very badly. A few-\w^eks later, at Fdrbui-y- meeting in January, she was beaten by a length in "the Dunediri Cup Handicap, two miles, by Dillon |Bell,'to whom she - was conceding! a second. 'At the Eas'fer meeting of the New Zealano! Metropolitan Tix>tting Glub ; slie ; won iha Interiiational Handicap.T(pnre ?niilo • and a-q:uarter)y conceding from 4sec to 7sec to her 1^ opFonGtns, wlu'cli included some of the',- best hoises itt the Dominion. ' She showed a.wonderrul bui-st of speed in the early stages of that*race, and ; .after going- half a mile she. was almost on t^rms-with the leaders, eventually, running, hprae an easy winner. rf*hree days later, in the Highclass "Handicap, she was respoii♦siblp for another great; effort. She lost a"lot of ground in '/.tha first thfee fliirlpngs; through interference from Dillon Bell, but she showed a great burs I; of speed over the last, half niile, and though '. beaten' by about two lengths by Discoverer, she covered, the mile in 2min 10 4-58 ec, which,, is easily^ a, race record for New Zea.lp.wl. After her two performances, at: Forbury Park, Emmeline must be placed on .the highost pinnacle' as the, best '. ..harness performer ever seen/in;, the Dominion. . She; has not been overraced', ..so thftt it would/be ho; sui-prise. , to find her pettinji: an. ;evi&n! higherinark before she\ retires, from the raco •. track... ' .' ..1 . ■■••■?•■.,■.■,•■ ■:'■■■■'.',.- .-;"'...-.■ 1...:.-:i