TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22195, 23 February 1934, Page 4

TROTTING

By. Sentinel.

Accran shows his best form in saddle, and .he should go a good race at New Brighton to-morrow. According' to reports from the north, Warbpat has been .wprking well at MethVeri. ,'■-'•" ".• '■' ■'■'.'<■ ■•■-•■■ ■■'■'■ ■" ' ■'Harbld Denver is one of the ruling favourites .for the big race at. New Brighton to-morrow. Denver City has been scratched tor hie'two engagements at New Brighton. Chancellor duly won at Auckland, on Wednesday. And it looks as if he will continue to build up his winnings tor aonie time to come.: He is one of the outstanding three-year-olds in the Dominion,' and promises to embellish the records of light harness racing in this

country. He is by the American horse Peterwah, from Black Gold, who is related to the dual Auckland Cup winner Gold Jacket. . . S, '- Social Pest bears a .very bngfit appearance and should strip a fit horse, for the Belfast Handicap at New Brighton on Saturday. The manner in which he played with his field at limaru will catwj £im to-be well backed, but he will find Saturday's race much more difficult to win than the one he secured at Timaru. Both big races at the Auckland trotting Club's meeting were won by exmembers of W. J. Tomkmson's stable On the first day Wrecker was successful, and on Wednesday Willie Derby led the.fie d hime in the Mackenzie Handicap. Wilne Derby was educated by Tomkinson, and .won his first race under the Addington Ntrainer.. . Willie Derby is by Nelson Derby, who won the Auckland Trotting Cup in 1925 for Mr G. J. Barton. That time must have served Willie Derby jell is borne out by the fact that he competed in 13 races last season without scoring a The one-time champion trotter, Uhlan, l'min 58Jsec, received felicitations recently on his thirtieth birthday. In marked contrast to the lively and exciting days of in years ago when frienzied crowds cheered him to eight world's records, Uhlan ia passing his last days in peace and solitude. This great.trotter held the record from 1912 to 1921, and is still the property of Mr C. K. G. Billings .whose farm is at Santa Barbara, California. Wrapped in a new blanket of the. old Billing colours, Uhlan observed his birthday bv munching an unusually large number of lumps of sugar, brought to hnn Iby his master. Uhlan spent the day I trotting briskly around the pasture ad--1 joining his stable, and as he moved about one could still observe the form that back 'in ■ 1912 carried him around the track at Lexington in lmin 58sec. One also could see that samepride in Uhlan which won admiration in Europe when Mr Billings took him and Lou Dillon abroad for an exhibition tour. Lou Dillon, who was pensioned with Uhlan in 1915, died about two years ago, but Uhlan still is going strong. Thirty years is an unusually long span of life for a racehorse. The imposing list of. Uhlans records follows: —One-quarter mile record to sulky. 27sec; one half-mile record to wagon. iSGjsec; mile record oyer halfmile track to sulky, 2min 2|sec; mile : record to wagon, 2min; mile record to sulky, lmin 58sec; mile record with trotting mate, 2min 3£sec: one-eighth mile to saddle. 1941 b up. 13sec; one-quarter mile on New York speedway, 26sec.