TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21733, 26 August 1932, Page 13

TROTTING

‘ By Sentinel. p. Holmes is working a sister to Eugene de Oro. She is a promising sort, and appears to the family gift for speed. Eugene de Oro is being kept busy in view of his New Brighton engagement. This gelding is very speedy and should go well over 10 furlongs. ’ The Australian Trotting Club reduced the prize-money for its meeting which was held on Saturday last to £3OO. Owners are much concerned. •. It was thought that bedrock had been reached with; £400; the amount given for recent meetings. ' . , , , Mr J. Westerman, who has bred numerous trotters and pacers, has an early foal on his property. The mother of it4s a mare by Rey de Oro from Dollar Princess, The foal is by the American sire Grattan Lolal. This year the mare will visit Frank Worthy. ; . Another start has been made _on the three-year-old, Rey Direct, by Rey de Oro from Trixie Logan. Rey Direct contested the New Zealand . Sapling Stakes, and will now be got. ready for the New Zealand Derby Stakes in November. The four-year-old filly Garner, who did such good work last season by. winning four races, is being kept busy tor New Brighton. She is one of the best young trotters seen out last season and as age generally spells improvement for those acting at the square gait should do better this season. Garner is bred on lines from which something more than the ordinary might be expected. She was got by Sonoma Harvester from. Pat Dillon by Great Audubon—Flossie Dillon by Harold Dillon, from fa Mauritius mare. The pacing gelding Free Logan, by Key de Oro from a Logan Pointer mare, is to join J. -S. Shaw’s team at Addington. Free Logan is owned at Hamilton. During the 1931-1932 season he won six races, was once second, and twice third. ' He is handicapped on 2.51 , for a mile and a-quarter, and is good in saddle and in harness, so he will have plenty of classes to suit him in Canterbury. Red Hope, the only eon of Great Hope in New Zealand, bears a marked resemblance to his sire. He bad his first race at the Ashburton winter meeting, when he was on the big side, t His conformation and style are not those of a duller, and J. Bryce has seen fit to leave him an entire. - , ■ , ■ An Auckland’report stales that the recent work : oiit of Kewpie’s Triumph is bound to bring the colt into favour for the August Handicap. The- son or £ |ie Triumph paced hi si two miles in attractive style and finished full of running. He is going-(is well now as ever he did. and as the field will not be big, the colt should have something to say at the finish. C. S. Donald intends making an early start to get Writer into shape for iSovember and December racing. Ihe gelding is quite sound, and has built up in a pleasing manner. Last year he made only one appearance, and had to be put aside on account of unsoundness. The good rest has remedied that defect. In spite of the fact (says the Pi ess) that Great Audubon mares" are not regarded as good racing propositions, the performances of Symmetry can be favourably , compared with those of most four-year-old pacers seen out last season. ■ lairing that term Symmetry was started on 12* occasions to record four wins, three seconds, and two thirds. She s fourth once, was brought down in another race, and once, finished further back than" fourth, a good example of consistency. E C M'Dermott has exchanged a maiile D pacer for the gelding Nelsonian. Last year Nelsonian and was placed in seven of them, ms record being one first, four seconds, afm two thirds. He is a speedy pacer, and he can go two. miles, he has done all his racing under L. F. Berkett. He is an aged gelding by Nelson Bingen , from Empress Eugenie. Favourable remarks have often been passed regarding the fine condition in which the Addington trainer J. Young has his team, and one* m particular who has done exceptionally well during recent weeks is the three-year-old filly Betty

Jinks, the half-sister to Author Jinks. The filly was raced but twice last season, and she has not been hurried m the meantime. She will be raced at New Brighton next week. Tho three-year-old gelding Llewellyns Pride was a recent visitor to Addington. As this was his first appearance at b ea “" quarters, and being country trained, he, was not quite at norrte in his new surroundings at first, but when he became accustomed to the change of scenery he paced well in the couple of short sprints which were allotted to him._ ihe haltbrother to Silver de Oro carries more size than the filly did at the same age. The Addington trainer J. l ® getting a large team. In addition to the horses he brought frbm Scotland— -Stanley T., Holly Bank, Colonial Boy, and Major Lind—he has in work the New Zealand Cup winner Kohara and Enawah, beside Page Girl and some youngsters. Kohara is not a young horse, and is now on a very hard mark, but Enawah raced well enough on the first day of: the metropolitan meeting to suggest that she may win a sprint race about November. Holly Bank looks particularly well, and he has beep racing more solidly lately than at any other stage bf his career in New mother of Free Logan has a colt foal to Grattan Loyal, and will visit him again. This mare (says Argus ) boasts of a, stout pedigree. She is by Logan Pointer from Tit Bits, by 1 rmce Imperial, dam Bequest, by Galindo (imp.), from The Gift, who was by Cronjc. The third dam of Tit Bits Was Secrecy, by St. Louis, while her fourth dam was Secret, by Ajax, a sire whose daughters produced several high-class performers to Vancleve. Tit Bits is a half-sister to Free I ° inter ' Logan’s Gift, Arran Chief, Benefice, Key de Quest, and Great Quest. The Oamaru trainer, J. Henderson, will hkve Alpha Wrack and Little Claire racing for him at 'the Otago Hunt meeting tomGo°dEra, who is engaged in the trotting events at the Otago Hunt Club s meeUng to-morrow, is a six-year-old gelding by Gold Bell from Stella Mans, and he is trained at Gore by his owner Mr W. Christie. He has not so far shown any outstanding form, but the Gold J?®”®. generally improve with age and he ca be expected to go good races to-morrow. •• 1 ‘ 9