CANTERBURY TROTTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20978, 15 September 1931, Page 7

CANTERBURY TROTTING.

WRACKLER'S REAPPEARANCE. CLASS OF DERBY ALTERED. D. WARREN'S NOTABLE RECORD. As was the case last season, the New Zealand Trotting Cup winner, Wrackler, will probably have his first race for tho current term in the Rakaia Handicap at Ashburton next Saturday. His mark i* i2Byds. behind, or 3m 15s for a mile and half. Stanley T. is at present underg"i «g a course of road work in the hope that this treatment will quieten him down. At the last meeting at Addington he was started three .times. Flatly refusing to leave the mark on two occasions, lie won tho only time he began correctly. If Stanley T.'s bad manners at the barrier can be rectified he can bo classed with tho best, but he is now racing in company in which lie cannot afford t,o dwell at the start. Red Shadow has dene well as the of the let-up he has had since racing" at the Canterbury Park meeting, and he is in nice order to go on with a preparation for spring racing. D. Warren, win has retired from the position of private trainer to Mr. H. F. Nicoll, has had a long associatim with the Durbar Lodge-trained horses, as he acted in the capacity of head lad to A. Pringle when that trainer was in charge of tho Ashburton traiiling establishment. During his term, D. Warren trained the winners of, among many other racis, four New Zealand Sapling Slakes, three Great Northern Derbies, two New Zealand Sires' Produce Stakes, two Gorj Cups, a Munawatu Trotting Club Cup, a New Zealand Cup, three New Zealand Derby Stakes, a National Cup, two Champion Stakes, an Oamaru Handicap and a New Zealand Trotting Gold Cup. truly au enviable record for any trainer to have. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has altered the class of tho New Zealand Derby, to be run in November, from 3m 31s to 3m 33a. The original class was fixed when tho old system of handicapping •as in operation, but with the advent of the amended system it was considered that the penalty for winning from a 3m 31s mark might be a little severe, especially for a horse scoring his first victory.