TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21640, 10 May 1932, Page 5

TROTTING

By Sentinel.

Acceptances for the Oamarn Trotting Club’s meeting are due at 8 p.m. to-mor-row. John Noble went two solid races at Forhury Park and finished on very gamely when challenged. It is understood that the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s winter meeting panned out satisfactorily from a financial point of view as well as being a sporting success. Grand Lady, a half-sister by Nelson Bingen to Elzear, has joined W. J. Tomkinson’a stable. She has been trained by her owner, Mr J. Richardson, at Forbury Park.

Red Spur has proved a profitable horse since he w r ou at the Waimate meeting, and should improve with age. He goes a solid, level race, but struck bad luck when be bumped against Tatsy de Oro at Timaru. An opinion is held in some quarters that Milo Minto would have been much more dangerous if he had found a clear run over the final stages of the Janies Memorial. A short straight means that a horse behind the leaders at the home turn is lucky to get an opening. There was a good deal more support for Nimbus in the Southland Handicap than when he started in the Renown Handicap, in which he finished fifth. In the Renown Handicap Nimbus carried £l5O 10s in a pool of £1728, and in the Southland Handicap £484 10a in a pool of £3247. Nimbus was apparently an improved horse on the second day, when he clipped 10 seconds off his handicap mark. Rollo put up a rather remarkable performance when he won the James Memorial. He went off on a mix, fighting in his hobbles, and then settled down to business so well that he finished with a strong run in the particularly smart time of 4min 20sec. Rollo also went a great race on the first day, and if he could be made more reliable at the start •would always be dangerous in the best company. Rollo. is a well-bred gelding, as he was got by Jingle from Madam Templeton —Tonganui, by Wildwood II (Wildwood—Fannie Belle) from Berlin Maid, by Berlin. Jingle is a brother to the successful sire Gold Bell, and was got by the Rothschild horse Capitalist, a halfbrother to Tonganui, the grand-dam of Rollo. In America there is little between trotters and pacers in the matter of speed. Last year the champions were:—Two-year-old trotter. Maid M'Elwyn, race 2.2.1; pacer, Calumet Cheater (hoppled), against time, 2.0 J. Three-year-old trotter. Protector, 1.59 J; pacer, Lady Volian (hoppled), 2.if. Fastest trotter of the season on a half-mile track, San Joaquin, paced on half-mile track, May E. Grattan, 2.2 J. The Americans contend that there is a difference of several seconds between a mile track and a half-mile track.