Trotting

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7105, 14 March 1933, Page 8

Trotting

Manawatu Trotting Double

CUP AND PRESIDENTS GOOD CLASS PACERS LISTED . OPEN ISSUE IN BOTH HEATS (By “Abaydos”). There is every reason to anticipate many first class contests at the Manawatu trotting meeting on Wednesday, as the acceptances show fields of very useful size. Apart from tlio quantity of the competitors, quality is well represented in the respective classes and in the two principal events, Manawatu Trotting Cup and President’s Handicap, several pacers of more than average ability are listed. The response from owners and trainers generally has been good and horses will bo trotting past from various parts of the Dominion, some coming from as far North as Auckland and Hamilton and others from Christchurch, Nelson, and Blenheim in the south. Hawkcs Bay, Taranaki and Wellington provinces aro also well represented while there are several locally trained candidates competing, keeping the strong visiting contingent busy. The Cup field is strong, and tho issue decidedly open, which will tend to create spirited speculation with a fairly wide range of fancies. Mihad and Rector are off the limit, and the former, who ran third in the Marlborough Cup has the better staying erodentials.Bclle o’ Mino and Ailsa Bingen ai* nicely placed on 12 yards, but Tori Kingi, 24 yards, may be preferred. In fact, if he

is dressed in his best form. Tori Kingi will be very difficult to beat. On 3(3 yards aro Eleawah, Ulm and Winshaw, a useful trio. Eleawah won over two miles last season and while she only defeated two non-stayers on that occasion the Peterwah mare won very easily. She is racing well

enough to suggest she may be dangerous. Ulm is a solid customer, who will battle with determination, while Winshaw has already demonstrated this season that she is at home over the distance. At the Waikato spring meeting the grey mare was responsible for a fine effort in beating the good Northerner, Pegaway, and a repe--1 ition of that form will give her excellent prospects. Special Sun, 60 yards, is sure to race soundly, and as ho is

now regaining his good form again he is entitled to the greate'st respect. There is no disputing his staying ability and this factor will find him very troublesome at the finish. The evergreen Rangihau, 84 yards, is a possibility, and his past consistent displays over all distances will make him a

force to contend with. The back mark-

ers, Lady Coronado and Free Logan, have been well in the limelight of late, and both aro good two-milers. Lady Coronado won the Wairarapa Cup at Christmas by a street and also captured the sprint race, while Free Logan has been showing a return to form in his latest outings. It is a difficult problem that faces backers, but some to find favour will include Teri Kingi, Winshaw, Special Sun and Freo Logan.

A number of those engaged in the Cup also figure in the second “leg” of the double, the mile and a quarter President’s Handicap, and their prospects in the sprint race will be governed to

a great extent by their earlier display. Rector, on the front line, should be admirably suited by the shorter journey and being a smart beginner, he will take a lot of heading off by the time the post is reached. A new-comer on the limit is Smooger, who only requires

to reproduce his Hastings form of last >' June, to keep the opposition busy. He has not shown to advantage so far this

season on account of being raced at both tho trotting and pacing gait. Belle o’ Mine is a smart one on 12 yards she will bo troublesome, while Teri

Kingi and Tennessee’s Child on tho same lino will go well. Ulm may bo preferred to Eleawah and Lee Nelson on 24 yaTds, but both should add interest to the race. Dressed in his best,

Daddy Longlegs will be a real danger from 36 yards. He knows the track well and has previously performed attractively on it. Native Berry and Whippet, 60 yards, are classy pacers, and although they failed at the last Auckland meeting, they should both be improved in the interval. Whippet should be capable of a very solid effort On the next line are Lady Coronado and Free Logan, and the latter may do best, He is such a brilliant little pacer when thoroughly wound up it would not bo surprising to sec him Tight up at the finish, in spite of the big handicap. Four to be in demand at this stage maybe Rector, Belle o’ Mine, Ulm and Daddy Longlegs.

A correspondent asks why the mile Tecord of 1.55 to the credit of the American pacer Dan Patch, is not always recognised as the world’s best. Tho explanation is this: In 1906 Dan Patch made two public appearances at Minnesota. At the first ho tried to beat his previous season’s Tecord of 1.555, but could clock only 1.565. Four days later ho paced a mile in 1.55 flat. In the meantime, however, tho front pacemaker had been legislated out of tho trotting rules, and tho Year Book refused to recognise tho 1.55 mile; but it inconsistently includes the 1.56$ mil* made under the same conditions. His owner computed that Dan Patch, during his - racing career, paced 30 miles, averaging 1.57’, -15 miles averaging 1.58, and 71 miles averaging 1.195. Without a pacemaker of any kind, or a front-runner, Dan Patch’s best mile record, absolutely "in the open,’* was 1.58.

A rather interesting episode in the career of the world’s champion trotting sire, Peter Volo, Whose daughter, Nell Yolo, has won races in New Zealand, is that as a two-year-old he was so abnormally large and well developed as to arouse the suspicions of many trainers that he was really a threc-year-old, a movement to. protest against his winnings in the Futurities on that ground being at one time seriously considered by the owners of some of his compctir tojs, \ This, however, was not done, for, beeauso he was bred in partnership, Mr Knight, a gentleman of the highest probity, was. able to vouch for him as a two-year-old. , The debuts of his first

crop of foals wero disappointing, none of his early progeny approaching his own greatness. For sovcral years after this he was under a cloud. Patchen Wilkes Farm fell from its high estate, and tho climax was that Peter Volo was allowed to become gaunt and thin through neglect in a dirty stable. Later he changed hands at 25,060 dollars, and went to Walnut Hall Farm. Ho was not an immediato success there, but with every opportunity ho lias now becomo the sire of five 2min. trotters, and his three-year-old daughter, Tho Marchioness, now racing in Italy, is described by one American authority, as “the best trotter ever foaled.” REVIEW OF ASHHURST FIELDS

Trotting enthusiasts will be interested to note that “Abaydos” (Mr. C. Craig), the well-known trotting writer from Auckland, will review from 2ZO this evening the fields to contest the various events at Ashhurst. "Abaydos” is due to “go on the air” at 7.30 o’clock.

Mr. A. H. Manson, secretary of the Manawatu Trotting Club, wired Mr. J. A. Nash, M.P., on Friday asking if he would approach tho transport authorities in connection with a report that taxis had been refused licenses to carry passengers to and from tho trots at Ashhurst Yesterday Mr. Manson received word that the restriction would not apply after 11.10 a.m. tomorrow and that it would be ‘ business as usual’ as far as the taxis were concerned. TROTTING CALENDAR.

March 15: Manawatu T.C. Annual. March 15: Wyndham T.C. Annual. March 16: Waimate R.C. (two events). March 18: Cheviot T.C. Annual. March 23, 25: Oamaru J.C. (two events each day). April 1: Roxburgh T.C. Annual. PAHIATUA RACING CLUB. ANNUAL MEETING. NOMINATIONS DUE NEXT

MONDAY.

Nominations for the Pahiatua Racing Club’s annual meeting, to bo held on April 5 and 6, arc due next Monday. The Pahiatua Telegraph Office closes at 5 p.m. Mr J. G. Swainson’s telephone number is 4, Pahiatua. Tho course is reported to be in great heart and it is anticipated that there will be a generous response on tho part of owners in the matter of nominations. MANAWATU RACING CLUB AUTUMN MEETING REHANDICAPS

The following re-handicaps have been declared in connection with the the Manawatu Racing Club’s autumn meeting at Awapuni next week: — Prince of Wales Handicap: La Poupee 7.9, Gay Court 7.9. J. M. Johnston Memorial Handicap: Hunt tho Slipper 8.2. Te Matai Hack Handicap: Kalmuck 7.9, Cape Fair 7.6.

When Mr. M. Miller’s champion colt, Diatomous, was being walked to Greatford station yesterday morning en route for Trentham he gave his groom an anxious moment. A passing motor-cycle frightened the youngster which immediately plunged and attemptd to pull away from the groom. In doing so the colt came a nasty stumble and had it not been for the capable hands of the attendant the horse would probably have careered on to an adjacent cattlestop and thereby suffered considerable injury.