TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22393, 15 October 1934, Page 13

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel.

Entries for the Wellington Trotting Club’s Trial meeting will close to-night. Acceptances for the Oamaru Trotting Club’s spring meeting are due to-night. Acceptances for the trotting events at the Gore Racing Club’s meeting are due to-day. ■ • A payment in connection with the New Zealand Trotting Cup is due ou Wednesday next at ‘noon. Nominations for the spring meeting of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club will close on Thursday next at noon. The stakes for the thx-ee days' of the Auckland Trotting Club’s summer meeting have been increased by over £I7OO compared with, last year. The principal event, which, is to be known as the Auckland Royal Trotting Cup, in honour of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, has been raised from £SOO to £1250.; The Trotting Association having declared De Soto to be “unplaced” in the race he won off a wrong mark at Metliven, he cannot be reassessed. If his owner receives a winner’s stake, and as his backers collected from the totalisator, it was De Soto’s lucky day; and compensated for his bad luck in being disrated for galloping past the post at Ashburton some month;) ago, Arrangements made by the Railways Department in connection with the Oamaru Trotting Club’s Labour Day meeting include a special passenger train leaving Dunedin at 7.40 a.m., arriving at Oamaru at 10.50 a.m., and departing for the racecourse at 11.4 a.m., in ample time for the first race, which starts at 12:5 pan. The return train leaves Oamaru at 6.10 p.ni. and 6.25 p.m., arriving at Dunedin at ■ 9,8 p.m., and. 0,43 .p.m. respectively. * .• No fewer than 11 New Zealand Trotting Cup candidates are engaged in the Weston Handicap to be decided over one mile and a-quarter at' - the Oamaru Trotting Club’s meeting ,on Labour Day, They are Harold Logan, Roi FOr, Red Shadow, Lindbergh, Satin King, Rollo, Silver de Oro, Mountain-Dell, Sunny Morn, Sir Guy and Blue Mountain. Such an array of talent will stir great interest, at Oatiiaru where the meeting of so many giants should prove a big attraction, and afford an interesting line on the' future prospects of. the horses mentioned. . Consistency has been a feature, of Young Rodney’s, race efforts, and his 1 win at the Waikato Trotting Club’s recent meeting was popular. Last season he was rarely out of a place, and on two occasions was narrowly beaten by Mountain Sun and Ganton respectively. In his only previous start this season he was very narrowly defeated by Waikato Prince, who on Saturday last finished well back third- from S6yds. Young Rodney was bred by H. Hedley, who purchased the dam, a big unstanding Great Audubon mare, for breeding purposes. Being by Nelson Bingen, Young Rodney possesses the Bingen—Peter the Great cross. Hedley has a line-looking two-yeafi-old bv Jewel Pointer from the dam of Young Rodney.