TROTTING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 244, 12 September 1934, Page 10

TROTTING.

WALLA WALLA AT THE STUD.

According to an Australian writer, Walla Walla will do a very light season at the stud and will race in Alelbourne during the Centenary celebrations. The Alelbourne trainer, W. AlcKay, who brought Auburn Lad to New Zealand last season, has 12" horses in training, eight being by Globe Derby and two by Dalla Derby, a son of Globe Derby. On his visit AlcKay ex pressed the opinion that Globe Derby horses were ideal racehorses, good mannered, game, and reliable. Few of this breed have been trained in New Zealand, although J. J. Kennerley had a more than useful performer in Vendome. AlcKay’s association with two of Globe Derby’s sons in Walla Walla and Auburn Lad would not cause him to alter his opinion of the famous sire. Of the first-class horses that have raced during tho season, one of the unlucky ones was Roi I’Or, who ran several fine " races without winning much money. He was selected as one of the field to oppose Walla Walla in the Invitation Alatch races at Addington, but after finishing unplaced over a mile he was replaced by Lindbergh in tho mile and a half race on the second day. In this his owner, Air P. Brown, was unlucky, for instead of meeting the cracks off the one mark, Roi l’Or was set to give away long stalls in the two miles handicap, and for the second time in his career he bettered 4min 15sec for two miles.

Roi l’Or is the only horse in New Zealand with two records befter than 4min 15see. The adoption of the new system of handicappsig by the two leading clubs of New South Wales has given the handicappers the opportunity of making trotting a leading sport, for it is now at the discretion of these gentlemen as to what handicap a horse will receive, says the Australian Trotting Record. Under the new system a winner of a mile and a half races will not receive more than 36 yards penalty, irrespective of time recorded, and in two miles not more than 48 yards. Now if the handicappers of both clubs take advantage of the power given them, and not penalise a horse more than 12 yards up to a mile and a half and 24 yards for two miles, trotting in Now South Wales should go ahead by leaps and bounds, and the horses which the public want to see in action will have opportunities of earning money instead of being a drug to their owners, as largely they are at present. Gipsy Pronto, Walla Walla, and others were attractions which

.swelled the attendances, and if their assessed marks are reasonable it is certain that these champions will again be seen in action.