TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21359, 12 June 1931, Page 4

TROTTING

By Sentinel,

Colonial Boy, who has not raced for some time, is looking in good order, and is being got ready for the new season. The Auckland Trotting Club received an entry of 66 yearlings for the Great Northern Derby of 1932. This represents a decrease of 37 on last yeans figures. There was a fine work-out at Adding ton on Tuesday morning between Welcome Guy, Sir Voyage, and Home Voy *age over a mile and a-half, in which Welcome Guy and Sir Voyage were seen at their best. C. S. Donald, with Awa-iti, Grand Can yon, Writer, and Bessie Logan, 0. E Hooper with Satin King, Milo Miuto Logaleen, and Sandy Pointer, and W. J Tomkinson with- Sir Voyage, Sunchild, Erin’s Fortune, The Abbey, Home Voyage, Tumatakuru, and Golden Pedro, are the best represented Canterbury trainers with horses engaged at the approaching Auckland meeting. , All persons holding trainers’ and horse men’s licenses granted by the New Zea land Trotting Association are reminded that applications for renewal, together with old season’s licenses, must be in the hands of the secretary not later than June 30. Applicants for neu* licenses must furnish certificates of ability and character. When Todd Lonzia won 'the Progressive Handicap at the recent meeting of the Canterbury Park Club he was hand' capped at 3min 38sec and went 3min 26 2-ssec. On the second day he was handicapped at 3min 35sec, but -after racing prominently 1 all the way he broke under pressure about a furlong from home and finished out of a place. ' A. Cox, his trainer, was well pleased with the performance of the three-year-old (says “Argus”), as the young trotter was hard at it all the way and only stopped in the concluding stages. Todd Lonzia is rtow having a spell, after his two hard races, but nis trainer intends to send him for a record before the end of the present season. A number of pacers, including some two-year-olds were given barrier practice at Addington on Tuesday morning Trainers are beginning to realise (says an exchange) that this branch of the education of pacers and trotters has been neglected in the past. Prior to the recent meeting at Addington Belinda was worked at the barrier. She has in the past been a slow beginner, but in the Ellesmere Handicap, which she won with great ease, she went away faster than usual, and this gav" her a decided advantage in thgJrace. There was a very useful work out at Addington on Tuesday morning, between Tumatakuru, Captain W-rapk, Autowin. Willie Derby, White Stranger, and Peterwah. who started off in that order and covered two miles. There was no change

in the order throughout the journey, the horses keeping about two lengths apart till the final furlong, when White Stranger improved his position. It is said to be never too late to mend, and if such, is the case it should not be too late for us to give the trotter a fair go as well as the pacer (writes J. S. Walford in the Australian Trotting Record). The trouble with us as regards early trotting speed is that we are too close *to thoroughbred blood in the majority of dams bred from. The American effort has ever been to get away as far as possible from the thoroughbred. Forty years ago J A. Buckland bred Fritz, whose sire was Vancleve, and dam Freulein. by Berlin from Woodburn Maid, all importations. Vancleve, Berlin, and Woodburn Maid were personally-selected by the late Robert Wilkin, of New Zealand, on their breeding. At the time Fritz was bred, 1890, the world’s trotting record was held by Maud S with 2.8 J, and it was then considered that the apex of trotting speed had been about reached. The Americans, however, went on with the good work, breeding from highly-bred stallions and mares, getting away as far as possible from the thoroughbred, as much in the dam as the sire, with the result that by 1903, 13 years, two minutes nvas broken, Lou Dillon trotting her mile in 1.58|. Since then the effort has been to obtain early speed more than reducing the world's record for all aged horses. Some doubt , has been cast on the fact that the famous trotter Goldsmith Maid ranks as the greatest prize-money winner on either the .turf or trotting track. On a momument erected over the grave of Goldsmith Maid it is stated that she won 364,200d01. during her racing career. Charles J. Foster, in an appendix to Hiram Woodruff’s book, ‘‘The Trotting Horse in - America," states: “ When Mr Goldsmith got her she was exceedingly wild and timid, manifesting a great and fixed eversion to a check-rein, or running martingale, and freeting so as to be almost uncontrollable from nervousness.” But the wild daughter of a mare that drew a peddler’s cart finally responded to training and was set out on her historic trotting career. Mr Foster devotes nearly a dozen pages to the performances and accomplishments of Goldsmith Maid. She was indeed the queen of the trotters. She won 95 contested races and was successful in seven trials against time. A recent tabulation of the earnings of the leading flat racers of the United States, places Zev at the top with 313,039d01., Display second with 266,286, and Exterminator third with 252,696. Next is Man o’ War with 249,466 and Sarazen 1 with 225,00. Blue Larkspur, the leading three-year-old of 1929, is rated immediately below Sarazen with 220,420, and then comes Crusader with 203,261. Mad Hatter with 194,526, Domino with 193,550, Sysonby with 184,438, Colin with 180,912, Reigh Count with 180,695, and Princess Doreen with 174,745. Isinglass is the best winner in England with over 57,00050 vs to his credit.

The following is a list of horses, with breeding and ownership, remaining in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, in harness, of SOOsovs. One mile and a-half. —D. Neil’s b f tylyra Chenault, Peter Chenault —Waipero; W. J, Doyle’s b g Avaunt, Peter Chenault —Disappearance; S. J. Thomas’s b c Gold Paper, Rey de Oro — Glimpse; R. J. Marshall’s ch g Clem Dawe Glahdore —Harold Dillon mare- W. J. M’Ciurg’s b c Finnebrogue, Mafchlight—■ Lady Marjorie; J. R. M’Kenzie’s b f May Chenault, Peter Chenault—Petrova; G. Stanley’s ch f Silver de Oro, Rey de Oro — Molly Pointer; E. H. L. Brown’s b f Eastern Queen, Nelson Derby—Little Joan; A. R. Gudsell’s blk g Avernus, Nelson Derby—Logan Pointer mare; W. E Siraes’s ch f Edna Worthy, Travis Axworthy—Hal M’Kinney mare; H. F. Nicoll’s ch, c Giro, Wrack—Pearl Child: A. J. Nicoll’s b c Tempest, Wrack—Nell Pointer; G. M'Millan’s f Speed Queen, Nelson Bingen—Haydock; W. Lake's b c Mauser, Sonoma Harvester—Flossie Dillon; J. Slack’s b c Lone Derby, Nelson Derby—Alone; W. F. Magson’s b g Tenor, Author Dillon—Miss Dorothy. "