TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 13

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel. Sapling Stakes First forfeit for the Aehburton Trotting Club's Sapling Stakes are due today at 5 p.m. Insurance The New South Wales Trotting Club has decided that an insurance policy covering sulkies used 'luring races be effected so that drivers could be compensated when damage-was experienced. At Oamaru

The four-year-old mare Sylvie's Best has joined J; M'Lennan's team at Oamaru. Sylvie's Best is by Guy Parrish from Sylvie, and is regarded as a promising pacer. Sylvie's Best was formerly trained by M. R. Allan, and is entered for the trotting events at • the Waimate Hunt 'and the South Canterbury Hunt Club's meetings. At Auckland During the present season the Auckland Trotting Club gave £16,320 in stakes for 11 days ceeded this by £2974, the total payment to the Government being £19,294. The totalisator turnover aggregated £204,758. Of the sum won by visiting horses, £3380 went to Canterbury stables, Roi l'Or, winner of the Royal .Trotting Cup and second in the Champion and President's Handicaps, being the chief earner with £llOO. Roi l'Or was in great form, and established time records in each race. He won the Cup in 4min 15 3-ssec, a world's winning grass track record, and reduced the time to 4min 14 l-ssec when he finished second to Worthy Light, 4min 19sec, in the President's Handicap. He also created a new mile and a-quarter record of 2mfn' 36 3-ssec for Alexandra Park, and equalled Harold Logan's world's record for the distance, but the latter's was a winning effort.

Minton Derby

At a recent meeting of the New South Wales Trotting Club at Harold Park, Sydney, the 1922 Auckland Trotting Cup winner Minton Derby was well to the fore as a sire, his stock recording two firsts and a second. Doreen Minton won the Trial Handicap with e*se in 3min 30 2-ssec, being driven by J. H. Phipps, while Minton's Choice registered a smartj effort for G. Kelly, winning in 3min 24 l-ssec. Florrie Minton, the other candidate by Minton Derby, was beaten into second place by. Cyllene. When Minton Derby visited Auckland during the 1922-23 season P. Riddle raced him five times for two firsts and, a third, a feature of his Auckland Cup success being the number of Australian horses who finished behind him, including Globe Derby, Clarrie Daly, Grand Voyage, Snowshoe, and Pedro Pronto. At the autumn meeting he won the Campbell Handicap, two miles, from 60 yards, after a splendid finish with Steel Bell, 48 yards. Minton Derby, who is by Mambrino Derby—Mignonette, has only one representative in New Zealand, tht Whangarei-owned Miri Bells,

For the Future Undoubtedly the chief attraction on trotting courses to-day is the big handicap horses, and for the production of these the sport has to rely upon the improvers' classes* During the season the Auckland public have been provided with some excellent racing in these divisions, and some very' promising young pacers have been seen in action. On the from shown during the season just concluded in the Auckland province six horses that may prove worth following in the next few months (says " Orion") are Ringtrue, King's Warrior, Electric Bell, Our M'Kinney, King's Play, and Bonny Azure. Ringtrue is undoubtedly th.e best young horse produced, locally for a long time, and he will disappoint his followers if he does not develop into the best class. Opening his career as a three-year-old at th» Auckland Trotting Club's meeting in 1932, Ringtrue gave promise of better things in finishing third in a close finish, but he then became unreliable at the barrier, and it was not until the Auckland meeting the following April that he succeeded in opening his winning account. In this event he defeated two other young horses that looked\. like developing into good, pacers in Kewpie's King and Star Pionto. Ringtrue then gained four firsts and a second in hie next five starts. In all of his races he never appeared to be under pressure to defeat the opposition, and it is hard to say just how good he was at .that stage. When he was beaten at the Waikato fixture Ringtrue was turned the opposite way round at the start, and lost fully 50 yards, yet only suffered defeat by a length and ahalf. This season he has only been produced in three races for two firsts and a second. Ringtrue has developed into an outstanding pacer. He is nothing to look at, being a light-framed horse that does not appear to require much work to be seen at his best. It is a long time since we have had a pacer that has shown as much promise as Ringtrue.

A Champion The champion trotter of New Zealand and Australia, Worthy Queen, 2min 3 S-ssec, has developed soreness, and, rather than break her down, her trainer and lessee, J. S. ■ Shaw, has decided to retire her from the race track, and she will be returned to her owner in the North Island for breeding purposes. Worthy Queen has proved to be the greatest trotter up to a mile and a-half in this country. In addition to her wonderful achievement of trotting a mile against a high wind at Addington last season in 2min 3 3-ssec, she has been privately timed to cover a mile and a-half in a race, and from a standing start, in *3min 11 l-ssec. In addition to her great speed, she is a perfect mare from- every aspect, and for some time she has been one of the favourites at Addington. Worthy Qiieen has earned the highest honours on the race track, and up to a mile and a-half she has no peers. Since joining J. S. Shaw's establishment she has cornpeted in 27 races for £IO7O in stakes, and Shaw trained and drove her •in her record-making event. She did all her early racing in the colours of the late Mr J. R. Corrigan, for whom she won nine races in 17 starts. During Shaw's term she was first home on five occasions. In 44 starts her record is 14 firsts, four seconds, aud two thirds, and she has won £1953 in prize money. She is a young mare, having been foaled in 1927. She was bred by the late Mr J. R Corrigan at Hawera, and is by Worthy Bingen (a brother to Great Bingen and Peter Bingen), while the dam of Worthy Queen wa6 Queen Chimes, who won the Champion Stakes at Addington in 1918 and Taranaki Futurity Stakes in the same year. Queen Chimes is by Coldstream I Bells, by Abbey Bells (imp.). The granddam of Worthy Queen is Vanquish, who I was a daughter of Vancleve, and Victress, v.'ho was sired by Abbotsford.