SOUTHERN TROTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 11

SOUTHERN TROTS

NEW BRIGHTON CARD THE DENTON MEMORIAL CHANCES OF BIG AUTHOR TALENT IN FREE-FOIi-AEL The New Brighton Trotting Club will hold its autumn meeting to-day, with win and place betting. The track is in good order and will be fast.

Advice was received from the Herald's correspondent last evening that the weather premised to be fine. The following horses were expected to be well supported:—

Improvers' Handicap.—Mohican, Great Linnet, Sagamore. Belfast Handicap.—? King Potts, Gentleman Joe, Colonel Axworthy. Denton Memorial Handicap. Big Author, Bonny Azure, Isabel Derby. Stewards' Handicap.—Windsor Lass, Southern Chief, Twenty Grand. Autumn Handicap. Blue Logan, Royal Romance, Franz Derby. Eclipse Handicap. Bing Crosby, Lightning Lady, Red Ranger. Free-For-All. —Lucky Jack, Ironside, Plutus. Final Handicap.—Cavan Chief, Repeal, Token. Acceptances

FORBURY PARK MEETING RUNNING OF PARISIENNE STATEMENT BY MR. F. J. BEER Ley telegraph—own correspondent] DUNEDIN, Friday A special. report on the running of Parisienne at the summer meeting of the Forbury Park Trotting Club by the chief stipendiary steward, Mr. F. J. Beer, was submitted to a meeting of the stewards of the club.

The report read as follows:—" Durig the running of the Dunedin Trotting Cup on the first day Parisienne, driven by 11. B. Berry, stopped badly at the end of a mile and was pulled up. On returning to the birdcage Berry f stated, in answer to my inquiry, that f the mare had simply collapsed in his f hands; that by the way she stopped he \ thought she must have broken a bloodvessel, but on examining her he could | see nothing to indicate the cause of | the trouble. The mare certainly seemed ■'* distressed when she returned to the birdcage. % " Later in the day 1 again ques-1 tioned Berry, but, as tlie mare had | been removed to stables off the course, 1 he could tell me nothing further. That evening I again endeavoured to get in g touch with iierry, but could not do so. | " The following morning I again tele- I phoned him, and Mr. D. R. Iteyell, J husband of the owner of the horse, J answered the telephone. He said they ij were going out to inspect the mare * and he would telephone me again at 2 mid-day. Mr. Revell then informed me { that Parisienne seemed brighter after | treatment, but the indications were 4 she had suffered from kidney trouble. ? They were to give the mare a work- | out the following morning, Saturday, | and if she were not right she would | not be a starter that day. }

" On my arrival at the course on | Saturday Mr. He veil informed me that * Lhey had worked the mare on a small f track that morning and that she had gono satisfactorily. She started the | once and won, with Lucky Jack, with | whom she was bracketed, second. It ! was a fast-run race, with War Buoy i making the pace, and Parisienne registered 4.15 4-5. There was a demon-1 stration against the winner.' - "On the first day the bracket went, out favourite, carrying 1637 tickets. On the second day Morello was favourite with 1937 tickets, while the Parisierme-Lucky Jack bracket was third favourite with 1397 tickets. * • " An examination of the scrip book in the totalizator disclosed that the'in- j vestment from Berry's . stable oil the : first day was four times larger than j on the second, and that Mrs. Hevell's investments were exactly half the | second day of what -they wore on the .first day. From the facts before us, i there was no evidence to support an | objection or complaint, and a meeting a of the judicial committee was there- a fore deemed unnecessary."