BEST OF HER AGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23029, 5 May 1938, Page 13

BEST OF HER AGE

PABISIENNE'S CAREER ESTABLISHED 4.20 3-5 RECORD EARLY TRAINING BY H. GRAY Although defeated by Pot Luck in the Championship Grand Final at Addington yesterday, the brilliant Parisienne gained the greatest number of points, with three wins and a second, this securing championship honours — a remarkable feat for n four-year-old. Parisienne was bred in Auckland.by Mr. George McMillan and is owned by Mrs. D. It. Revel!. She is by Key do Oro, one of New Zealand's foremost sires, who is by Copa de Oro, 1.59, from Sulita, by Stoimvay from Jenny Mac, 2.9. Yenot, dam of the champion, was a fair performer, and won saddle races in Westport and Greymouth. She is by Harold Dillon from a Rothschild mare, whose dam, Bessie 8., was by Young Irvington from Minto, by Berlin. Other winning progeny of Yenot were Peter Junior, by Peter Chenault, and Lilian Bond, by Worthy Bond. Winner ol Sapling Stakes Parisienne was educated by the galloping trainer, H. Gray, and later joined R. B. Berry's stable. As a two-year-old slio won the New Zealand Sapling Stakes in 3.25, and last season' she registered three wins and five seconds in 11 starts. Her successes wore the Summer Handicap at Netv Brighton, in 2.48 off 3.0, the New Zealand Derby Stakes in 3.19 3-5 and the Great Northern Trotting Derby. Her only classic defeat was in the Ashburton Champion Stakes, won by Toorak, Parisienne being second in 3.19 4-5. Parisienne opened her four-year-old account at the Metropolitan August meeting by winning the Queen Mary Handicap in 4.25 4-5 off 4.34, and tho Heathcote Handicap in 4.20 3-5, established a winning record for one of her age.

At the November meeting, Parisienne Avon the Lyttelton Handicap and scored in the Mason Stakes at the Canterbury Park meeting. She was defeated by Willow Wave and Pot Luck in the Dunedin Cup, but made amends in the Metropolitan Handicap on the second day at Forbury. Prospects In New Zealand Cup During the inter-Dominion Championship carnival, Parisienne won heats at a mile and a-quarter, mile and a-half and two miles, and was second in the mile and five furlongs. She has proved herself the greatest four-year-old mare to race in New Zealand and she only needs to come up fit and well next season to have great prospects in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, which race Berry won for the first time with lucky Jack this season. Pot Lurk, winner of the championship final, is a sturdy son of Jack Potts from Hope Dillon. Ho was a good three-year-old, winning £1072 in stakes. He won the New Zealand Champion Stakes in 3.17 2-5, and was successful in the All-Aged Stakes, in which Graham Direct, who was second from 72 yards behind, ran 3.14 4-5. As a four-vear-old last season, Pot Luck started 28 times for six wins, six seconds arid two thirds, collecting £1645, which placed him third in the winning list. His ohief successes at two miles were in the Coronation Handicap and King George Handicap at the Forbury Park winter riieeting. By winning the Burwood Handicap at New Brighton this season, Pot Luck qualified for the New Zealand Cup, in which he ran unplaced, but, on tho final day of tho meeting he won the Louisson Handicap off 4.26 in Prior to his win in the championship final, Pot Luck was second to Supertax in the mile and a-half and second to U. Scott in the two miles heat.

EPSOM WINTER MEETING £SOO INCREASE IN STAKES DETAILS- OF PROGRAMME An increase of £SOO in stakes is provided in the winter programme of the Auckland Trotting Club to he held on June 4 and 8, which is a fortnight earlier than in previous years. " The principal event each day will be run over a mile and a-half, .with a 3.23 limit. Tho Adams Memorial Cup, on the first day, carries a stake of £350, to which has been added a gold cup valued at £SO, given by the fa.mily of the late Mr. and Mrs, W. Adams. On the second day, the C. F. Mark Memorial Handicap has a stake of £350. The Cornwall Handicap and Liverpool Handicap, of £250 each, are set at a 2.51 mile and a-quarter class, which i 9 equivalent to 3.27 at the longer distance. Improving and intermediate pacers liavo limits of 3.38 and 3.33, while trotting horses are well catered for, with 3.49 and 3.42 classes each day. The Mangcre Handicap, for novice pacers, 3.5 limit, has a stake of 4J280, but in anticipation of the usual large field, arrangements have been made to run it in two divisions, one on each day, and the state ° will be £2OO for each event. Following is the programme: — . First Day, Juno 4.—Winter Handicap, trotters, £2OO, 1% miles, limit 3.40; Ma* neere Handicap; first division, £2OO, V/ 4 miles, 3.5; Hobson Handicap, £2OO, J'/j miles, 3.38; Adams Memorial Cup, £350 and £SO gold cup, IVa miles, 3.23; Stewards' Handi : cap, trotters, £225, 114 miles, 3.42; Marconi Handicap, £225, l'/ a miles, 3.33; Cornwall Handicap, £250, V/, miles, 2.51. Second Day, Juno B.—Royal Handicap, trotters, £2OO, V/ 3 miles, 3.40; Mansrcre Handicap, second division, £2OO. VA miles. 3.5; June Handicap, £2OO, 1% miles. 3.38; C. F. Mark Memorial Handicap, £350, 1% miles, 3.23; Members' Handicap, trottcrg, £225, IVa miles, 3.42; Suburban Handicap, £225, l'/a miles, 3.33; Liverpool Handicap, £250, V/ miles, 2.51. The policy of tho club in shortening tho distances of the principal events of winter meetings is expected to bo approved by owners and trainers, for under the conditions usually found at that time of the year, two miles is thought to be too far for pacers to race in heavy going. The Ferguson Handicap, run la&t week, at a mile and ahalf, provided a truly-run race.

MACHINE BRICK DEAD WINNER OF OTAHUHU CUP The death has occurred in Australia of tfco trotting stallion, Machine Brick, who was by Pock Huon out of a mare descended from thoroughbred stock. Machine Brick was a fine pacer and when visiting Auckland in 1926, he won the Otahuhu Cup. His son, Machine Gup, won the same raco in 1930, and another son, Auto Machine won in 1932, the name having then been changed to the Otahuhu Handicap. May's Machine, an aged daughter of Machine Brick, furnished a surprise last month at .Victoria Park, Sydney, by defeating the crack three-year-old Badiant Walla in the £SOO Sesquicentenary Cup. Badiant Walla, a !&n of Walla Walla, had won 12 races in succession, including tho Melbourne, South Australian and New South Wales Derbies.