AUCKLAND TROTTING.

NZ Truth, Issue 873, 19 August 1922, Page 9

AUCKLAND TROTTING.

Nine weeks still to go before the season opens m Auckland. Carpenters are busy at the Park lowering the rail m front of the stand about , nine inches. This will enable the public to obtain a full view of the houses m the run up the* straight. W? Orange put m an appearance on the track last week with a team of eight horses. . R. Milieu has Lord Roberts trotting m great style for so early m the season. The black horse knows how to trot -when right. . An old veteran m ..Alf- McKinnoy, who has been off ..'the scene for 'quite a. while, is again dodging about the track. He: is still with his old trainer, W. Orange. •■•..-•'

Wildwood Direct is receiving plenty of work but he gives the impression that he wquld go to a tangle if the pace was on. Reel Star and. Harold Junior are ready 'to 1 race at any time. They liaS'e been kept m work all through the v- inter and are m great condition. Anizoram, who. is expected to turn out a pretty good horse this season, has made his reappearance on the track. I J. Lynch has his team all looking well, and the most forward of the bunch, when the season opens, may !be Enid. She should go well m saddle. . While exercising a Gold Bell youngster on • the track last week, J. Pettie was thrown from the sulky. Fortunately neither he nor the horse was injured. W. Lynch is. -working the maiden trotters Grattan Wilkes and Memory. They are both likely sorts to catch a slake- later on. . ' Nothing on the Park' looks to have a chance of winning the Derby at Christmas. : Liberty Bell, who went through last | season without being sighted m a race, j is now one of W. Orange's team. Previously she was . trained by W. J. Paull. The speedy and promising Brendo lias- been placed m work. He is expected to take high ■honors this season. W.'Kelsey has no reason to regret taking • Moneymaker to Addington as the.. little son of Rothschild, after running, into place, money on ..the earlier .•.cUty's finishec^"\vp- by winning the concluding event' of the fixture. The Auckland Trotting- Club showed a profit of over £4000 on last season's .working. ' \ Though George Patton did not win a race Svith his pair Nita Bell, and All Bell, they both earned place money at Addington and the trip would pay exes, and 'leave a bit over. Blue Mountain King failed to make any. sort of showing on either day and it ih very evident he was not at his be:--.t. It is said he contracted a cold on the trip down. A. Cameron has some very fine youngsters running on; his farm At Msuigere. The one time- champion pacer, Our Thorpe, who holds the mile record, is also on the farm. He is to stand the season and will no doubt get 'plenty of patronage from breeders. Moneymaker paid a. two figure dividend when he won at Addington,which would be very handy if his party fancied his chance. There was a. heap, of money for Nipper m Auckland on the final day of the meeting. Nipper is now owned m Auckland. Aerial Bingen was trotting like a tram on Saturday morning m company with Lord Roberts. However, he is net s6 good when playing for keeps.