TROTTING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 43, 18 January 1935, Page 12

TROTTING.

THE DUKE AS STARTER. Indianapolis will make his attempt on the New Zealand mile record at 3.10 p.m. to-morrow, immediately after the Royal Handicap. The Duke of Gloucester will be present to see the race against time. The fact that the Duke of Gloucester is to start a race at Addington to-mor-row recalls that the Prince of Wales acted at the barrier at the Royal meeting held at Riccarton in 1920. The Prince of Wales started the Marlborough Stakes in which Amythas made the well-performed Arrowsmith look like an ordinary horse instead of one of the best up to a middle distance. Four horses went to the post and Right and Left hopped away and ran the first half mile in 47 3-ssec. Arrowsmith headed him before reaching the straight and then along came Amythas to sail to the front and become a comfortable winner. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s fixture, which will be held to-morrow, is the club’s ordinary summer meeting, and is not an extra meeting as some appear to imagine. At one time the summer meeting was always held in February; but in accordance with the wishes of other clubs it was put back to the last week in January. This year the meeting was fixed for January 26, but to coincide with tlie visit of the Duke of Gloucester, the date was exchanged with that held by the Timaru Trotting Club, January 19. The new arrangement is of benefit to both the New Zealand Metropolitan and Timaru Clubs. Silver de Oro, winner of the Summer Handicap at the Hutt Park trots last Saturday, was educated and developed by S. A. Edwards, who won the New Zealand Sapling Stakes with her in 1931. She is only a pony, but takes a wonderful stride for one of her physique. When a three-vear-old she joined G. McKendry’s establishment at Addington, and much credit is due to McKendry for her deevlopment into a high-class performer. She was bred by her owner, Mr G. Stanley, nt Sydenham, and is by Rey de Oro from Alollie Pointer, who is by Logan Pointer from Single Girl, a x>roduct of tli* thoroughbred. When Travis Pringle first faced the starter he did so as a hoppled pacer, and he looked likely to reach good class (states a southern writer). It was not long, however, before he showed a preference to trot, and he won liis first race at the Reefton meeting recently. He has had a good experience of racing in company, and there is no reason why he should not go on to still better things. He is well enough bred to be a champion, for lie is by Travis Axworthy from Lady Mvalf, by Great Audubon— Myall, by Wildwood—Daybreak, by Vancleve. One of the most promising young horses in the Dominion is the four-year-old gelding Iraq, owned by the Dunedin sportsman, Mr J. Richardson. Iraq was produced on two occasions at Hutt Park, and after being beaten by a neck by Full Hand in the Hutt Handicap made amends later in the day by accounting for the Dispatch Handicap. He was finishing on at the right end in both of his starts, and the bay gelding should develop into a stayer. He is bv Wrack from Edith Chimes, hy Four Chimes —Edith A, by Black Ribbon, and is thus a full-brother to_ Chiming Wrack, who annexed the Ivaitoko Handicap at tlie same fixture.