TROTTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21243, 26 January 1931, Page 10

TROTTING.

By Sentinel. Free Advice and Harold Thorpe are the ruling favourites for the Dunedin Cup. Kyra has not been showing her beat form recently, otherwise she would be fancied from the front of the Otago Handicap on Thumday. R. Townley, however, is usually lucky with his straightout trotters at Forbury, and that fact ■will swing some support towards his candidate. Sunchild looks-well, and if he is beaten in hie races this week it will not be because of any lack of condition. If Meteor reproduces the form he showed at the southern holiday meetings he will add another win to bis list this week. Several horses were worked on the local track during the week-end, but none cf them was sent against the watch. In view- of the approaching meeting, the crowd of track watchers is increasing •very day. Major Brent, who is engaged ot the Fosbury Park meeting, won on the West Coast, and looks to be on the improve. He is by Brent Loanda from Monica Galindo, a mare by Galindo from Monica, by Wildwood from that great brood more 0.1. C., so that Major Brent is bred on good staying lines. It was stated that Harold Logan would not be raced again this season after he won the Gold Cup at the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting last week, but he has been nominated for the chief event at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's summer meeting, which is to be held early nnxt month. The trotter Geralight is now trained by F. G. Holmes at Addington. Geralight is by Matchlight, few of whose progeny gq at the trotting gait: At the June meeting of the Forbury Park Club’s fixture Gemlight, when trained by A. Hendricksen, raced really well, but since that time he has not done so well. The three-year-old filly Gold Chips, who is by Rey de Oro from Prospect, showed fine form when she contested the Sapling Stakes last season, in which she -finished second to Arethusa. She went the mile and a-half in Siroin 25 4-ssec, being beaten by a short length. She is somewhat on the small side, and has not grown much eince she raced as a two-year-old. This season Gold Chips has become somewhat troublesome at the barrier, and has not started off at all well in her races.