TROTTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22269, 23 May 1934, Page 11

TROTTING

By Sentinel.

. The Auckland Trotting Club will give 2400sovs in stakes for. it s winter meeting, representing an increase of SOOsovs on last year’s programme. ’ , The Wellington Trotting Club will show a fair profit as a result, of catering for the champions, and this accentuates the bad luck experienced by the Forbury Park Club when bad weather upset what would have been a record gathering. Harold Logan is to be treated to a wellearned rest for -a couple of months, me champion pacer seems to have improved right through his campaign against the cracks of the day. , , f Reports from Christchurch, state tha.t W. J. Tomkinson who met with an accident, ig still an inmate of St. George s Hospital, but has made a big improvement, and is now out of danger. - ■ x Some time ago it was suggested that the Melbourne Cup Centenary meeting might prove a serious clash to the New Zealand Cup meeting and New Zealand Trotting meeting. There is now a move being made to borrow all the crack pacers in commission for a meeting in Melbourne. The New Zealand Sapling Stakes to be run at Ashburton next month creates more and more interest as each meeting goes by. and as the. two-year-olds begin to show their paces in public. It is' recognised that raping experience is halt the battle in winning races (says the Press), and especially is this so in a race like the Sapling Stakes. The form of the different two-year-olds has been a topic of wide discussion, and after haying seen eight or nine in action the public is not much wiser concerning the result. or this race. Gamble, the good-looking pacer in M. B. Edwards’s stable, was the first to come under notice, principally on-account of his good- looks and excellent manners. He has had three races and in each he ha s performed with credit. At Waimate and South Canterbury he showed his speed, but ran very green. At Wellington on Saturday, however, he proved that he had benefited by his racing, and he behaved like an old stager. Edwards, his driver, allowed him ,to go very steadily in the early stages, but'when he commenced to race past his field he showed himself a pacer above the average. He wa‘ s unfortunate in having .to go round the field, at n critical stage, and again unlucky when J. Bryce, juh., behind Red' Flyer, elected to hurry for the win-ning-post. before Gamble was straightened up for the run home. The two-year-old was at a big disadvantage,. but’ when Edwards ' asked ' him a question he got down to his -work -in - the mariner of a tradesman. It was almost a hopeless chance, but his speed and - his-‘ style of going marked him a champion in the making from a 3min 43sec mark he went 3min 31 2-ssec, a . sterling effort and a most satisfactory, trial: for. the Sapling Stakes. The-manner in which Indianapolis responded when-E. C. M'Dermott gave him a> tap'-with ’.the.whip a furlong- froth home in the. Dominion Handicap at Wellington demonstrated that he is possessed of the determination,that made famoimthe Peter the Great family, of which he is.a member. It was pleasing to witness' Mr G. J. Barton’s big horse respond at the end of a two-mile race, for it-is known (says “ Argus.”)- that', he had not received . a thorough preparation for such" a distance. That‘ the contest will ■ improve. him admits of no doubt, and. it is now certain that’ Indianapolis will.’strip in excellent order -for his, approaching engagements. He is now on a 4min 27sec mark for two miles, , so another win over the same journey will take him to a 4rriin 26see mark, which probably will be the limit of the next New Zealand Trotting Cup. Walla Walla Souvenir. —.For a 'Beautiful, Memento of the’ -World’s Champion* Pacers ‘ send ,1s postal note to B. Ralph, 76 Hastings street,’ Christchurch. See . Harold Logan, the world’s wonder horse; -Walla-Walla, the Aussie streak of lightning; Red Shadow,’ the Red Terror;, Indianapolis, the world’s fastest baby in hobbles; Roi l’Or; the freak sprinter. Suitable’for framing; get one now. —23/5/34. ; ;