TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22204, 6 March 1934, Page 5

TROTTING

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Accwtances are due to-day for the Timaiu Trotting' Club’s autumn meeting.. The closing time for the nominations; for the Roxburgh Trotting Club’s mooting has been extended until to-dgy. / Mystery- YeV who started second favourite in the Taita Novice Handicap at Wellington, ia a five-year-old full brother to Jlminy de ,Oro. - : ■/ / The more-one-notes the form 00 Toll-; gate, the more one must become itrongiy convinced that he.was very lucky to beat Indianapolis id the New Zealand Derby.. Crackiunan, who Was twice unplaced at the. Wellington meeting, ia a member of J: Bryce’s stable. ' He ia a aiz-year-old! by - Wrack.from Credit Slip, the dam of. Willie Derby. The Invercargill Trotting Club’s annual meeting resulted in /an encouraging success. Fields were, on the small side in' toe principal events, on the second day’s card, but owners bestowed excellent patronage on the majority of events on the programme: .•//.• The Man.6* W4r mare Waress won the: Armstrong Handicap in, 4min 32 2-ssec, and the time .the put' up left her with, a * safe 'margin at the finish. Waress claims ss her grand-darn a sister, to Ribbonwood in Manuka.- " . 1 yiliage Guy started first favourite for the : Waiweto Handicap run at Wellington, but did not gain a place. He has, a two-year-old mark of 3min 21 4-ssec, and was giving 36 yards.to Rocesii, who won in Smin 25 45sec in; a close finish. There was. a serious drop dn the total!--sator returns in connection With the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting, but this could be partly accounted • for. by the fact that not one favourite scored during the day. • Tn‘ fact; only three favourites succeeded in reaching a place, and such results usually - result in a shrinkage in the investments.

In the writer’s opinion it should never occasion surprise When a pacer or a trotter trained on a dirt track suffetg ‘defeat on grass going. Horses trained on a dirt track sometimes break for no apparent reason when acting on gran going, and experience goes to show that iraimug a horse on one clan.of track.and racing on one rather different ia not a Wise proposition. The Metropolitan Trotting Club will be able to. play the strangest card at. Easter that it' has tabled since the RibbonwoodFritz match, which ‘filled the stands and also the infield to an overflowing extent. Since then the track has been enlarged and the stand accommodation greatly increased. but it ia doubtful if ever the centre of the course will be packed with humanity as it wan when the two charaS ions, w pacer and a trotter, met at Adingtpn. ; - . . . Colene Pointer, a winner of the Timaru .(hip and 'other good races, has been a successful brood mare, for amongst her progeny racing at the present time are Kingcraft, Village Guy, and Coleue Parrish. The first-named is one of the best performers in New. Zealand; Village Guy is a very useful three-year-old, and Colene Parrish shewed at Ashburton on .Boxing Day that she inherit! the family speed by racing a mile and a-half',in 3min 19 2,t3scc. Colene Pointer, when three years old, injured herself so, badly

that She .was . regarded , as a hopeless case (says the Press), and it' was only after mature consideration that her owner, B. Grice, decided not to destroy her. Even for stud purposes it was doubtful whether she would be any good; She was tob, lame to be taken from the farm at Tiirirald On a visit to a -fashionable stallion, and eventually she, was mated with the Vancleve trotter Quincey; who happened to be in the-district; at the' ’time,The result was ; Kingcraft! who proved a very speedy three-year-old and went on to reach New Zealand Cup class. During the period she was in the brood marcs’ paddock Colene Pointer betaine quite sound again, and Grice put her into training. She proved a good i‘ace ’ mare, and won a number of - races. Only three of Her progeny were registered in. Volume IX of the Stud Bpok in ’■!Kingcraft, ’foaled in 1924; Colene Parrish/ 1929; and ■ Village Guy, 1930. Colene Pointer is a beautifully-bred mare, being by .Logan-Pointer, a sire of more wiphers than any- other stallion, and a -notedl-sire of. brood maresi from Queen Cole by King Cole, from Norice, the dam of ,Native‘ King, Nelson , Derby, Nelson Fame, and? one of the greatest brood mares of all time. v