TROTTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18040, 15 March 1922, Page 9

TROTTING.

NOTES, BY PICADOE.

A second payment made for the New Zealand Trotting Derby, to be decided at the autumn meeting of the New Brighton Trottine Club, shows that 13 have been paid up for. Of the 12 candidates standing their ground, only four have scored wine- Better Jbgr Brant Locando) has thu best credentials. ■LMS MMon Betrayer has contested six races, and lias won twice. At Addington last month ne demonstrated his superiority over eight others in the Juvenile Handicap and got to the end of a mile and five furlongs in 3m 445. Next to Betrayer ranks Latona (by ioean Pointer). She won the New Zealand Sapling Stakes of one mile and a-half in 3m 375, and has performed well in ea-ch of her engagements this season under some disadvantages. Great Hope (by Great Audubon) has the Great Northern Derby to his credit, and by getting to tho end of a mile and a-half in 3m 3k in the Auckland event ne (registered an attractive performance, Ratana (by Logan Pointer), who hails from the same stable as Great Hope, has a record of a nrst, second, and third in six starts. but doubts are entertained as to his being up to the Derby standard. In the course of his speech at the presentation made to Mr. E. It. Mackenzie at the lown Hall on Friday last Mt. J. Rowe once again .stressed the point of the unequal distribution of totalisator permits as between racing and trotting meetings in the Dominion. He pointed out that in the 2'22 days' racing allowed only 59 were for hotting, aod under the heading 40 of tho Permits were held ir, the South Island and only 19 in tho Nori.h Island. This distribution was so maniffstly unjust that it called for immediate rectification. During the pact few seasons the best performers in the unhoppled division have proved equal to holding their own among the pacers,, and several of the big New Zealand handicaps have been secured by the irce-locged horsce (remarks the New Zealand Referee). The straight-out trotter is generally credited with stamina, but of late speed has been considerably developed, and to-day we find Reta Peter (4m 28 3-Ss). 'Whisperins Wilho (4m 29 2-58), Gold Boy (4m 31a), and Grand Voyage (4m 31 3-ss) eligible for the biggest handicap raco in the Dominion, the New Zealand Trotting Cup of two miles, for horses that have done 4m 82s or better. The two-year-old colt Ahuriri was credited with getting over a mile in the decision of the Dash Handicap at Blenheim on Friday last in 2m 20s. which is held to be a New Zealand and Australian record by a young- ; ster. Ahuriri, who is owned by Mr. R. Morten, of Canterbury, is well engaged at three years old.

The five-year-old First Carbine has been ltont well at it this season, and 16 races have been exacted from him. The son of El Carbine is to be treatod to a rest, which, it can be said, is well deserved.

Nominations for all events to be decided at the Thames Trotting Club's annual meeting on March 25, close to-day, at 6 p-m.

AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB. Nominations for all events to be decided at the Auckland Trotting Club's forthcoming autumn meeting close on Friday next it 6 p.m. On the same date nonfinations close for the Great Nojthern Trotting Derby of £1000, to be decided at the A.T.C. Summer Meeting of 1923-24. The nominations for the latter event is for now yea r liTiEß.