TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22213, 16 March 1934, Page 6

TROTTING

By Sentinel, Adsum, a maiden in the Townley stable, finished with a fast run to pull second money out of the fire in the Trial Handicap at Timaru on Saturday. She should be a winner before long. There was a lot of money for Wild Dreams in the Trial Handicap at Washdyke, but he failed to go away, and gave no indication whether the support was based on sound information. Bon Haven will be a class trotter it he ever cures himself of his - habit of breaking. In the Temuka Handicap he had dropped back nearly half a furlong at the end of a mile, and then finished up in fifth place. ' , Gold Standard, who made his debut (giving away several seconds to start) in the Kingsdown Handicap on Saturday, is a half-brother to Dillon Gold and Lough Guy. He is only three years old, but is a promising sort of trotter. Gold Standard’s breeder has another young trotter out of Lluvia de Oro ready to be broken in. R. Townley appears to have got Girvan back to something near his best torm. The Washdyke pacer was kept a bit too far out of his ground in the Fairlie Handicap, and met a check from a breaking horse when making for an opening. This probably cost him the race. About the most disappointing .erformance at Washdyke last week was that of Waress. The Methven mare had escaped a penalty in the sprint race for her Wellington win, and was considered almost unbeatable. At the halfway mark she looked the good thing' the betting predicted, but she fizzled right out in the last half-mile. Colene Parrish, the double wjnner at Washdyke, is a half-sister to Kingcralt and Village Guy. Extremely excitable when first raced, she bas token a year or more to settle down, but her prospects of advancement now look blight. Colene Pointer, the dam of Colene Parrish, was a good pacer herself, and traced back to a mare by King Cole, sire of Ribbon wood. Eureka Boy has recovered from the lameness that affected him prior to the autumn meeting of the New Brighton Club, and he is being allotted useful tasks. The promise of soft tracks will suit Eureka Boy. He is in splendid condition, and it will not take a great amount of fast work to put him right for Easter events. The three-year-old filly Trireme in G. M'Kendry’s stable shaped particularly well at Timaru, and her performance must have pleased her connections. She was first out of the barrier, and she was one of the leaders until the straight was reached, and then finished a creditable fifth. Trireme is by Man o’ War from a mare by Brent Locanda, and she should soon win a race.