TROTTING.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1107, 19 May 1893, Page 26

TROTTING.

It is stated that the trotting mare Yum Yum will retire from the track after next season, it being Mr Budge's intention to mate her with Albert Victor this season.

The well-known trotting mare May Queen died, last week in Christchurch. On returning Ifrom Wellington she went lame, and it was found that she had a nail in her foot. It was extracted, but soon afterwards mortification set in and she died. May Queen won the Consolation Race at the last Johnsonville ■Meeting. t,Spectator' says:—l trust that before Yum YUm retires from the track that her owner will ..let her appear on a Southern race track. The owners of Tommy are reported to be Avilling to match him against anything in the land. I should like to see the pair meet, and I am confident that the good son of Blackwood Abdallah would have to go faster than than he has done in public to beat the Childe Harold mare, who is, I am sure, capable of niuch better things than her 2.34 at Epsom, Auckland, denotes.

The term ' Recovery Handicap ' is generally regarded as a synonym for ' Consolation Handicap,' which means a race open to all beaten horses at a meeting. It evidently did mot mean this at the Ashburton Trotting Club's Autumn meeting on the 3rd inst, for there the Recovery Handicap was won by Albino, whe had won the previous race, the Dash Handicap, whileßarney O'Hea, who ran second, had won the District Handicap. The breeders of trotting horses in America have of late years paid great attention to the subject of inbreeding. The Michigan Farmer gives instances of the success of closely inbred sires producing high-class stock. The most noted instance quoted is that of Egbert, who is described as the most in-bred of all trotting stallions, and yet his get are not only distinguished for speed, but show the gameness and endurance necessary for racehorses.

Too late again. The acceptances of Mr Fraser'B three horses, Dot, Captain and Prince 11., for the Wellington Trotting Club's Pony, Maiden and Electric Handicaps respectively, arrived on Tuesday afternoon, of course too late to be received.

An official notice signed by the secretary of the New Zealand Trotting Association appeared in the Referee of last week stating that the disqualification of Mr F. C. Retters Buckley by the Johnsonville Trotting Club had been removed. A telegram has been since received by the secretary of the Wellington Trotting Club from the secretary of the association stating that the announcement should have read has been endorsed. This is a serious mistake for an official organ to make.