TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21829, 16 December 1932, Page 14

TROTTING

By Sentinel.

Acceptances are duo to-day for the Gore Trotting Club's meeting. As a result of his accident at New Brighton, it is reported from Christchurch that W. Warren will be out of action for about six weeks. His shoulder was re-set on Monday, and is now making satisfactory progress. In connection with the trotting meeting to be held at Gore on Boxing Day, the Railways Department has provided a fast, convenient special train from Dunedin. This train, which stops at chief stations, leaves Dunedin at 7.45 a.m. and arrives at the course at 11.28 a.m., in time for the first race which starts at noon. The return special train is timed to leave Gore at 6.55 p.m. and to arrive in Dunedin at 10.7 p.m. An interesting nomination for the Grey.mouth Trotting Club’s summer meeting is the trotter Trampfast, who is engaged in the High-class Trotters’ Handicap as well as several other events. It is two years last month since this well-performed horse contested a race. The Red Shadow case will make a good many people interested in the trotting sport do a little thinking. It is suspected (says an exchange) that a fair number of horses are racing in the names of people who do not own them, and that there are a fair number of unregistered partnerships, and there has been an idea in some quarters that this was not regarded as a serious offence. But five years!

The handicapping “ system ” produces some queer results. Gold Country, in the Free-for-All, boat Impromptu and Carmel out of sight, yet at New Brighton he received 24 yards from Impromptu and had a 36yds slower mark than Carmel. In the Free-for-All, his time was 1 2-ssec slower than Harold Logan, but at New Brighton Harold Logan was systomised ssec faster. Next time Harold Logan meets Gold Country (says the Timaru Herald) he will have to concede 4sec — and might just as well try to fly.' As_ a special attraction for its summer meeting, the Timaru Trotting Club has been negotiating for a match race between Harold Logan and Roi I’Or. Ever since the Waimate crack defeated the champion in the Free-for-All at Addington, there has been endless discussion concerning their merits, and now events have progressed so far that only confirmation in writing by the respective parties is required, and this is expected to come to hand to-day. The distance agreed on is a mile and a-quarter, with a walk-up start to a Mr P. Brown, ownertrainer of Roi TOr, is particularly keen to see the match staged as an impetus to the sport, and will agree to almost any conditions that are equitable. Northern opinion favours Colorado, Wrackler, and- Grand Canyon for the Auckland Trotting Cup. On their comparative performances when they last met in the Forbury Handicap at Dunedin, which was won by Grand Canyon, with Wrackler fifth, Grand Canyon appears to hold the better prospects. On that occasion Wrackler was giving Grand Canyon 24yds start, which the latter lost by a faulty beginning. In the Auckland Cup Wrackler has to concede 12yds to Grand Canyon. Considering that he has been changed over from the trotting gait to the pacing gait only about six weeks, Radley went a splendid race to finish third in the Improvers’ Handicap at New Brighton in 3min 26 3-ssec. He was one of the quickest to begin (says “Argus”), and was up disputing supremacy all the way. He fought on to within a dozen lengths of the judge, where Tatsy de Oro and Dollar King were just too good for him. His performance points to his winning a race in the near future. Radley was first trained as a pacer, but was later converted to the trotting gait. He won races going at both gaits, but as a trotter he became unreliable at the start and was put back to the pace. Among the 83 two-year-olds who survived last week’s forfeit for the New Zealand Sapling Stakes is the Aucklandbred representative by Peterwah from Black Gold, a sister to Gold Jacket. At the age of one year and 10 months the colt ran a mile in 2min 20sec at Epsom, but has since been operated upon and has been spelled. He is reported to have done well during the let up and looks in splendid condition to start work on again. The only North Island juvenile to have won a Sapling Stakes was Enawah, also by Peterwah. in 1927, but, provided that the two-year-old referred to makes satisfactory progress when put to serious work, the North Island will have solid_ representation in this season’s classic.