TROTTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20600, 26 June 1930, Page 9

TROTTING.

THE RELIEF MEETING. AUCKLAND CLUB FIXTURE. PROGRAMME NEXT WEEK. The programme for the unemployed relief meeting to be held by the Auckland Trotting Club on August 30 and September X will be considered by the committee at a meeting nest Wednesday. One of the conditions of the granting of the permit is that the stakes are not to exceed £2OOO a day. Considering the object for which the meeting ia being arranged this is liberal provision and should induce owners to give the fixture every support. The limits will be so arranged aa to cater for all classes of horses, and in this respect tha races will probably be on much the samo lines as those at the earthquake relief meeting last August. It is possible, however, that in one or two events tha limits will be tightened.

CANTERBURY GOSSIP. IMPROVEMENT OF CHEF. STALLIONS FROM AMERICA. [BI TEIJSOEAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] CHRISTCHXJP.CH, Wednesday. The following retiring members hava been nominated as candidates for membership of the New Zealand Trotting Association:— Messrs. R. A. Armstrong, H. C. Harley, J. R. McKenzie and J. H. Williams. As there are no more candidates than vacancies to be filled, these candidates will be elected without a poll. Chef, one of the most brilliant mile saddle horses in New Zealand, has rejoined N. C. Price's stable after a seven month's spell in the Oamaru district. Chef is only four years old and he was given a good let up at the time when he needed it most. He has improved out of all knowledge and may bo expected to do big things in the doming season. As a three-year-old he started eight time 3 for three wins and a third and early in the present season he started twice for one win. He gave a taste of hia quality when ho won the Lightning Handicap of one mile, in saddle, in 2m 0 l-Ss at the August meeting at Addington. Few. if any, four-year-olds, have much fast time against them. By Rey de Oro from a Logan Pointer mare. Chef inherits a wealth of the most successful pacing blood. The two Btallions purchased in America by P. Holmes are expected to arrive at Lyttelton toward tha end of nert month. They will form valuable additions to the light harness sport, for both are well bred horses.

One is Frank Worthy, by Guy Axworthy from Hollyrood in May. He waa a leading performer on the grand circuit a few years ago, but during a race ho put his foot through a sulky wheel and this ended his racing career. A good price was paid for thia horse, but it is doubtful whether he could have been secured had he been a trotter instead of a pacer. The second importation ia the eight-year-old stallion Grattan Loyal, by Grattan Royal. Grattan Loyal ia the sire of a good performer. Pearl Grattan. EVENTS AT ASHBURTON. EXCELLENT .ACCEPTANCES. [by tblegbaph.—owir coeekspomdkst. ] CHRIST CHURCH, Wednesday. ■The two-fli«ht harness eventa to be decided at the Aahburton County Racing Club's meeting on Saturday have drawn excellent acceptances, for of the 21 horses handicapped for the Lyndhurst Handicap 13 have been paid up for, and out of the 23 originally engaged in the Winchmore Handicap 22 are still eligible to lace. Owners of tho pacers have already contributed in nomination and acceptance fees £lO9 out of the £220 offered in staka money. In this connection it ia interesting to note that at tho annual meeting of delegates to the conference at Wellington next month the Inangahua Trotting Club will sponsor a remit asking that if the trotting events on a racing club's programme provide more revenue than the average for the galloping events, 10 per cent, of the excess. received in nominations and acceptances, together with 5 per cent, of the totaliaator excess, shall be paid to the Trotting Association and distributed by it to tho clubs whose finances are adversely affected by this racing, such moneys to be given in stakes.

While the Inangahua Trotting Club's meetings may be affected by light harness events on racing club's programmes, it can hardly be said that the same conditions rule in any other district. In Canterbury the trotting eventa on racing club's programmes provide owners with good opportunities to race their horses, and these opportunities are availed of. There iB likely to be opposition to the remit put forward by tho Inangahua Club.