TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22325, 27 July 1934, Page 4

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel,

L. A. Maidens has improved the tour-year-old pacer Royal de Oro, who registered a first and a third at Greymouth. Royal de Oro has improved in stamina since he last raced, and he will win again in the near future.

Trampfast will be raced among the pacers on the first day of the August meeting. He is going along in fine style and a race should set him up to compete among the trotters on the second and third days, when the classes are more in his favour. War Buoy is well placed on the first day of the August meeting to carry on his unbeaten record. He has yet to race over two miles, but in all his races he has given every indication of staying on, and his admirers will not deesrt him on the score of inexperience only. Dundee was sent out a firm favourite for the Advance Handicap at Greymouth, and he lost the race through having to

August 4—Poverty Bay Hunt. August 4.—Christchurch Hunt. August 14, 16,18.—Grand National Meeting. TROTTING August 11, 15, 17. N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. cover much extra ground during the. middle stages of the race. The experience on a small course will improve him, and he is likely to be seen to better advantage to-morrow. One of the most improved horses seen out at Greymouth was Great Antrim. He now races in the interests of M. B. Edwards, and was driven to victory in Wednesday’s race by M. Holmes. Great Antrim is a model of fitness. He is a quick beginner, and very brilliant over short journeys. His success suggests that he soon will win again.

Hard Words is on Line 17, which brings him on 2min 65sec for a mile and aquarter, arid so he is ineligible to start ju the Advance Handicap on the first day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s August meeting. Hard Words is also ineligible, at the moment, for the Lightning Handicap, his only other engagement at that meeting.

Pegaway will finish his preparation for the August meeting under J. Bryce. Although beaten out of the money at Wellington, where he met his strongest opposition to date, he has given every indication of being really good, and he should come up to the Metropolitan standard.

Wah has had a long spell away from Addington, but he never was happy in that locality, and if he is paraded there in August it will remain to be seen if he has forgotten his dislike. Wah is a good trotter at his best, and his true torm would find him prominent in the slower class mile and a-half trotters’ events.

The four-year-old mare Winkeye is a good prospect for the new season’s racing. She made her second appearance at Greymouth, when she ran second to Royal de Oro after making most of the running. She is a good-looking pacer, and is exceptionally well bred. Her exhibition on a soft track and the manner in which she handled the small course must have pleased her conections. Notwithstanding that it was her first start, the two-year-old filly Princess Onyx w’as sent out a firm favourite for the Express Handicap’ at Greymouth. Shi began quickly, but made a break when she had travelled SO yards, and never settled down until the field was well, on its journey. When she regained her balance she showed remarkable speed for one of her age, and she will make a topnotcher in time.