TROTTING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21265, 20 February 1931, Page 13

TROTTING.

By Sentinel. Nominations will close next Tuesday for two trotting events at the Waimate Racing Club's meeting. , , All the acceptors in the Kaiterau Handicap at the Kaikoura Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday are on the limit, so it will be a scratch race. The pacer Great Palm is a brother to that good trotter Olive Nelson, and is owned and trained by Mr J. R. Simpson, who also owns and trains the trotter. Great Palm shows a good deal of speed in his training work, and, though he had every chance in the Hutt Park Handicap at Wellington last week, he failed badly. He took command at the end of four furlongs, and kept his position till about half a mile from home, when he dropped out and finished some distance back. In the meantime it looks as though he is deficient in stamina. The Real Guy pacer Ron, in C. S. Donald’s stable, was made a little better favourite than Sister Rose for the Hutt Park Trial Handicap at Wellington last week, but although he made a smart beginning he did not maintain his position at the end of about half the distance, and finished out of a place. He came into the straight the last time with a possible chance, but his final effort was far from convincing. Just prior to the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting the four-year-old pacer Fleet Arrow was purchased by Mr D. R. Revell, of Auckland, from Mr G. M'Millan. Fleet Arrow will remain in R. B. Berry’s stable, as that trainer has horses belonging to the previous and present owners of Fleet Arrow. In the first race at Wellington Fleet Arrow was made fourth favourite, and finished second to Sister Rose. The pacer St. George started twice at the recent meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club. In the Railway Handicap, of a mile and five furlongs, he finished fourth, and in the Electric Handicap, run over a mile and a-quarter. he was third, but in the latter race he was six lengths behind Brent Zoloek, who was second. St. George is by Rey de Oro from Belette, the dam of Lady Joan and Epigram, but up to the present he has ndt raced as well as his relatives over any distance. When the four-year-old Nyallo Silk, by Silk Thread from Nyallo, won tlie Novice Handicap so easily at the Wellington Tmtting Club’s meeting, early in November, it looked as though he would develop into a more than useful pacer, as it was a 4min 3sec class, run over a mile and five furlongs, and he won in 3min 47 4-osec. He has not made the improvement anticipated, and in the Hutt Park Handicap last Saturday he spoilt his chance by tangling soon after the start.