TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22100, 2 November 1933, Page 14

TROTTING

By Sentinel, Lindbergh has been pleasing in his work, and is expected to shape well at Addington. . . Glenrossie is reported to have stripped at Wellington looking particularly bright and well. He is expected to go a good race at Addington. Considerable difference of opinion exists as to when the nominations should be taken for the Forbury Park Spring meeting. The best idea seems to make them due on the evening of the final day at Addington. This would leave sufficient'time before the local meeting. Several of C. S. Donald’s team have met with mishaps in training, amongst them being Arabond, Red Gold, Shore Leave, Portlight, Blondie, and Hemp ton. The last-named is, however, back in work and shaping well. Wrackler is booked for a strong workout at Addington to-day in company with other Ti’otting Cup candidates. He is reported to be in excellent order lor engagements at Addington. On her return from the Wellington meeting, Chiming Wrack was turned out in the paddock for a good spell. Modern Girl, who was left in Wellington after the September meeting on account of having developed a cold, returned to Addington. They say that Harold Logan cannot win from the back mark. Year after year the handicap is nullified by a slow pace over the first mile, and the race is then won on speed. There will have to be a complete change of tactics to make Harold Logan feel the full strength of the handicap, and as this is rather unlikely, he will, as usual, be able to lay handy to the front of the field and then win with his well-proved burst of speed over the final half-mile.

When Real Boy "won four races at the Westport Trotting Club’s meeting in 1931, he was heralded as a likely horse to win important trotters’ rqpes, but to the disappointment of his connections (says “Argus”) he developed bad habits and refused to repeat his Westport form. After several months of rest he was recommisisoned, only to indulge in continual bad acting in his races. A few months, ago he was handed to L. Davidson to train. He has effected phenomenal improvement in the gelding, who raced at Wellington as if he will go on to win again. It is reported from Gore that the death of Mr C. S. Cross occurred in the early part of the week. Mr Cross was a farmer and breeder in partnership with his brother, among the horses bred by the partners being the well-known racehorse and sire Matchlight, and the performers of more recent years, Quitchmatch and Matchmaker. Mr Cross developed rheumatic fever last winter, and that with subsequent complications accounted for the long illness from which he did not recover. He is survived by a widow and two sons. The trotting gelding Gay Paree, who ■was held on lease by W. M’Masters since the Auckland August meeting, raced a/, the recent Auckland meeting in the name of his owner, Mrs C. Allington, and was driven by his former trainer, J. S. Shaw. Although he had not done a great deal of fast work before the meeting, Gay Paree trotted a sound race to beat all except Bessie Parrish, who, like Gay Paree, is by Guy Parrish. Gay Paree has now gone into J. T. Paul’s stable at Mangere to be prepared for the Auckland Christmas meeting. Worthy Light, who was seen for the first time by many southern enthusiasts when he raced at Wellington, impressed very much by his winning performance in the Borough Handicap, in which he beat two very fairly performed horses, General Wrack and Marie Celeste, into the places. Worthy Light is a four-year-old gelding by Worthy Bond, who sired six winners at the recent Auckland meeting, and his dam is Illumination, a well-known performer in Auckland some seasons ago Her sire w'as Phosphorous, who was by Rothschild. Worthy Light is trained by F. J. Smith, at Takanini, and he has started only six times. As a three-year-old he raced three times, winning at his last start, while this season he has won all three races ho has contested.