TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21977, 12 June 1933, Page 5

TROTTING

By Sentinel. The pacer Grandlight has rejoined J. Bryce’s stable. . , The trotter Belle Lornmer has been leased by a patron of N. 0. Prices stable. . . . v. A suggestion that the minimum weight for drivers be limited to 10.0 will be considered at the Trotting Conference. The Rey de Oro gelding Roddy has been transferred from E. J. Smith s stable to that controlled by R. Donald at BelfaHiie Coronado, who won at the Hawke’s Bay Trotting Club’s meeting, was foaled in 1920. He began as a pacer, won as a trotter, and figures amongst the pacers again for the Auckland winter meeting. J. T. Paul has tilled an interesting breeding experiment in mating Great Parrish with a W° r fhy Bond mare. Great Parrish is by Guy Parrish, by Guy Axworthy, by Axworthy. Worthy Bond is a son of Axworthy himself. The result of this union is a filly which is entered for the Great Northern Derby, 1934. War Buoy, the winner of the Sapling Stakes, was got byi Man o’_ War from Little Kewpie, by Diadem—Little Alma, by the thoroughbred Telemeter from a Perkin Warbeck mare. This strong infusion of the thoroughbred no doubt contributed to War Buoy’s racing merit and also crops up iu some best performers connected with light-harness racing Village Guy, which ran second to War Buoy, was got by Guy Parrish from. Colene Pointer, by Logan Pointer—Queen Cole, by King Cole from Norice, the dam ot Lord Derby, Native King, Nelson Derby. Nelson Fame, and others enhancing of the importation of Notice to this, country. The third horse, Chancellor, came all the way from Auckland, and appears, to have run a creditable race. He was got by the imported horse Petenvah from Black Gold, a daughter of Gold Bell, a son of the Rothschild horse Capitalist.. T Trotting in America is not a poor mans sport if he nominates for the high stakes and futurities. Nominations for the Hambletoni an Stake for . .three-year-old trotters, to be raced in 1935, for foals of 1932, closed on May ,1. Nomination fee is £2; on January 1, 1934, a payment of £4O falls due; on January 1, 1935, £SO, and to start another' £IOO has to be paid. It thus costs £192 to start a colt or filly. However, few reach the £IOO payment. Of the hundreds of colts and fillies nominated last year but 11 faced the starter, seven trotters and four pacers. The race is not held on any particular course, tenders being called for the rights to hold it, and the money paid foes towards the stake. Last year the lambletonian was worth £II,OOO. It means a fortune to the lucky owner of the winner, but it finishes the racing days of the colt or filly. It is usually also the winner of the rich Kentucky and Horseman’s Futurities, and the leading two-year-old futurities the previous season. In' America the classification is by the amount of stake winnings, and the winner has won so much that it is in a class of its own: Its only chance in the coming years is. an occasional free-for-all. Last year’s winner of the Hamhletonian, The Marchioness, for a very big sum to an Italian buyer to race, but she went lame, and will be put to the stud.