TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21543, 15 January 1932, Page 4

TROTTING

By Sentinel,

Proud Dillon is now in J. J. Kennerlcy’s stable. The Author Dillon mare Anon has joined W. J. Tomkinson’s stable. Golden Pedro and Surprise Journey are amongst those doing useful work at Addington. Free Advice is stepping along well in her work for the Wellington Gold Cup. The Ashburton Trotting Club’s meeting on Boxing Day is reported to have shown a satisfactory credit.. Colonial Boy is training on nicely, and although two miles soems a bit far for him, his brilliancy shouhl prove useful over a shorter distance. It is reported that Fair Exchange, who was raced as a trotter at Greymouth, has since been tried yvith the hopples on, and for a novice handles himself quite well at his new gait. The Ashburton Trotting Club contemplates putting on a fast two-mile race on its autumn programme for the very bestclass of horse if it can receive promise ot support from owners. The Ashburton Trotting Club is in the wv rare position of being able to keep

up stakes, and has decided that the New Zealand Sapling Stakes for 1933 will be 800sovs, the same as this year. Great Minto, a half-brother by Great Audubon to Milo Minto, has raced very little, but he has shown enough speed (says an exchange) at different times to encourage the belief that he will, with a little experience, turn out a useful horse. He is a three-year-old owned and trained at Lauriston. A. E. Bussell is putting a yearling chestnut filly through the rudiments of her education at New Brighton. She is by Jack Potts from Mirie Dillon, and is owned by Mr A. J. Tutton, of Rangiora. She is a natural pacer. Mirie Dillon was got by Harold Dillon from Miramar, by Wildwood from Wild Wave, by Viking from Linton, by Bundoora, a winner of the C.J.C. Midsummer Handicap, and whose blood is a very valuable strain in a light harness pedigree. Miramar is the dam of Albert Logan, Wild Wave produced Driftwood and Kokemoer, and Linton was the dam of George M. Patchen and others. The Jack Potts — Mirie Dillon filly should develop speed, and in good time prove worth owning as a brood mare. Judging by the interest already created the New Zealand Trotting Gold Cup promises to be one of the best contests of the season. Many and varied are the opinions offered ns to which horse will win (says the Press), and it is a long time since such a well-balanced field has been brought together. There is a tendency to favour Royal Silk. Free Advice, and Wrackler. Harold Logan in the meantime seems to have been forgotten. In the list of nominations received for the Forbury Park meeting the name Red Chenault should have been Great Chenault.