Trotting

NZ Truth, Issue 881, 14 October 1922, Page 12

Trotting

(By "11123 TOFF.")

Greymouth, Gore and Auckland on Saturday. Oamaru on Labor Day. North Canterbury on October 23. The benefit meeting at Addington was a howling success. '' Trix Pointer is m perfect order and everything points to her being at her best by Cup day. Sherwood is by no means a light of other days. He is more likely to kick one out of the box than to lie down. Ouimet has brightened up considerably. Gep. Robertson is trying him a new way. He has only to fluke him right to get the money. Idris is now doing his work under the supervision of J. N. Clarke. The speedy pacer Ben Ohau is back on the tracks again. The O.Y.M. gelding should now be able to go a distance. ■ Moneymaker is flying m his work. The\ aged son of Rothschild is better than' ever. .. / The Scots trainer,- David Kerr; , arrived m Christchurch recently. He has raced pacers, and trotters on a big scale at Home, and with conspicuous success. , He brings with him a 'sheaf of fine testimonials from people who count. He intends setting, up as a public trainer, and should be an acquisition to the game;

El Munster, winner of the New Zealand Trotting Stakes m 1919, is standing up to his work. He is a free mover, and a good stayer. Aeriel Bingen is among the most improved trotters this season. He is flying for "Tartar" Julian. The aged gelding . Ken Tracey has rejoined H. Frost's stable. * '\ The brown trotting gelding Rito is a recent addition to B. Jarden's establishment. Reta Peter stepped a mile and a half last week m 3.23 with her ears pricked. Might win the Cup again. The full sister to Pessimist, Embracer and Albert Cling acts as if she will be an acquisition to the family. Albert Cling is doing exceptionally well m his work at Oamaru. A stepout m the big' race m his home town on Labor Day will top him off for the Cup nicely. Partner has wintered well. He has resumed work under H. Frost. Macushla went off her tuckter jat Geraldine, which, among other things, assisted m her defeat at the southern fixture. J. L. Jopp is knocking Lattie Direct into shape and hopes to pick up a stake with her very shortly. Alto Chimes is quite sound again, and m all probability will be included m Bryce's Auckland team. Acron was worked at Aldington last week. He is a perfect pacer, but is still inclined to run about a lot. Dalnahine is a nice colt, but Is very green. He needs racing. Theseus has been purchased by a patron of W. Orange's stable. Phil Smith is m great order after his spell. He is brie of the best propositions m the Dominion. 111 Vice Admiral is far from right. It is difficult to see him fit and well by Cup day. « ' Dlmlight is a recent addition to D. Withers's team. When a young horse he threatened to be among the best saddle m the country. Jack Kennerley evidently understands Homeleigh Dick. He has got him trotting as he has never done before. Whispering Willie has rejoined his old trainers stables — namely, those of R. E. Mills, who did so well with the gelding last season. Thea is being dodged along quietly, by J. H. Wilson. She has so far failed to live up to her high reputation. Kean John is another Plumber, only better. All the heads and tails at Addingtpn are saving up to be on him. Locanda Dillon is shaping very well m his work. He Is to be driyen m the Cup by B. Jarden. Don Wild will wind the clock very tight when he cuts loose over a mile and a quarter. 'General Links efforts last week were all that could be desired of a Cup winner four weeks from the day of the race. Red Heather is 'doing remarkably well. Nelson Bell is building into a fine horse. He is one of the coming trotters. • Lady Joan has speed ■to burn, and age is playing its part m the matter of her settling down quietly to her work. i • ■ . ; , Coil is building up ,nicely; and will win a race m the near future. Girls: pawn your 1 old clothes and watch Ahuriri at Auckland. You will get more fun out of following "Dick" Morten's colt than you will jazzing. He's a swinger. , Onyx is still amiss. It looks' as if her number will remain m the pavilion on Cup day. Gleaming is no belter. trouble is now thought to be m the suspensory ligament. If that Is so, it is fare- thee- well to the chestnut for a while. Everybody was tearing around last week to get a bit of Box Seat. The gelding has recovered from his indisposition and last week rattled over a couple of miles like a champion. . Great Hope is going to prove a great •bargain for Mr Corrigan. -v Realm was on the shelf for ten days, due to 'a nasty cold. He is air right again. Gaiety started at Kavow, where she was earmarked for something better by the punters. Dillon Wilkes went like a scalded cat m the Waitaki Handicap at Kurow -and won by a good many lengths. - Guy Fawkes was not ready at Kurow. The race will do him a power of good. ( Marvin Mac was out for his. life to win over a mile and a quarter m saddle at Kurow. He hadn't an ounce left, at the finish* Had Glen Farg- paced solidly all the way at Kurow he would have won. Brown Chequer can fly, but she is as green as grass. W. J. Tomkinson, who has recently purchased a house and stables near Addington, writing to a friend m Melbourne expressed a very high opinion of the management of' the meetings at Addington, where, he said, "the man on top *of the tree and the man m the gutter are . accorded the same Scrupulously fair treatment." All the' Christchurch and suburban tracks and the track at Alexandra Park (Auckland) he describes as "splendid," though he questions if any of them are faster than the Sydney rinks, i For the size of the population the fottendanees were an eye-opener. Talking of handicapping, the Victorian reckons that horses should run consistently Handicapping trotters was easy, and he would handicap them recording* to their records, and they should not be let up from their best times. He would like to see handicappers prohibited from departing from , that .system. The principle of imposingpenalties was mere guesswork, an'l it was sheer assumption on the part of handicappers to say how much better a horse was than (the time it has accompislred. Mr- Tomkinson advocated the adoption of the Melbourne practice of putting the competing horses' records m the 'race, books. The omission of the numbers of horse-stalls occupied from the books caused the public to search for the horses.