TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22631, 24 July 1935, Page 13

TROTTING NOTES

•Ry Sentinel.

A Sporting Visitor The well-known owner and breeder Mr J. R. M'Kenzie is at present on a yisit to Dunedin. Air Flow

The crack filly Air Flow, possibly the best of her age ever seen in New Zealand, is engaged at the Waimate Hunt meeting. Her pace will make her very dangerous if the sharp turns do not hvoak her gait.

Flatfool At its last meeting the Western Aus tralian committee decided to fall in with the suggestion of the provident (Mr J. P. Stratton) to have barriers installed at the Perth course. They will be ready for the first meeting in the new season — on August 3. A Probable Invader

V J. D. Watts is now in a bit of trouble as .to how to place his Minton Derby gelding Minton .Ribbons to advantage, and he is considering the horse over to Western Australia for the October carnival, says the Australian Trotting Record. It is possible that a New Zealand trip will follow. With such good horses ag Walla Walla, Wallawill, Minton Ribbons and Wirra Walla, Watts must suffer severe headaches trying to place them to advantage under present conditions.

The Helping Hand According to the Press there is a likelihood that a trotting meeting will be held in Christchurch, the funds from which will be devoted to the Queen Carnival which is being run to raise money for the relief of distress. The Kaikoura Trotting Club has offered its ( permit to the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, and the metropolitan dub is now waiting for the', necessary permission from the Minister of Internal Affairs to hold a meeting under the transferred permit. The Metropolitan Club hopes to enlist the sympathetic support of the Canterbury Jockey Club, the Canterbury Park Trotting Club, the New Brighton Trotting Club and the Owners’ and Breeders’ Association. There seems to be little doubt that this support will be given. If the meeting can be arranged it will not be the first time that this has been done for relief. In 1932 a spare permit was used, and a meeting enabled a sum of more than £I7OO to be raised. A Jubilee The Oamaru Trotting Club will celebrate its jubilee on Labour Day, Although the club was started 27 years ago, the first two seasons were non-totalisator meetings. Bookmakers were licensed at that time, and they fulfilled the requirementa of speculators on those occasions. It is 25 years next October since the club received a totalisator permit. In the intervening period the Oamaru officials have played an important part in fostering the interests of light harness racing, under the administration of competent men, the club has never made a loss, and, in addition to gradually increasing the stakes, it has maintained its standard during the depression. A big reserve fund has been established, and the club is now in a strong financial position. At the mbilee meeting the committee intends to give bigger stakes, and to make the gathering a notable one, and worthy of the occasion. The principal race will probably be worth £SOO, and the class will- be in the vicinity of 4min 32sec for two miles. A mile and a-quarter event, with a stake of about £450. will attract New Zealand Trotting Cup candidates, and the ciass will be either 2min 43sec or 2min 44sec. The remainder of the programme will he made up of races to suit novice and im-

proving horses. The club is determined that it shall be a memorable meeting. Crack Pacers A feature of the season’s racing at Epsom was the number of time records established, giving further nroof (says “Abydos” in the Auckland Herald) that under the best conditions the grass track at Alexandra Park is just as fast as the Addington dirt track. The summer meeting saw the course in excellent order, and times generally were very fast. Roi I’Or, Nell Volo, Bingen Chief and Indianapolis created race-winning records, and Roi I’Or and Subsidy place records. The placed two-miles track record of Great Bingen, 4min 19 3-ssec, was bettered by no fewer than five horses. Ro] I’Or 4min 14 ]-ssec, Glenrossie 4min 17 3-ssec, Impromptu 4min 18 3-ssec. Blue Mountain 4min 18 4-ssee, and Worthy Light 4min 19sec. Jewel Pointer’s mile and a-quarter record of 2min 40sec was lowered by Roi I’Or 2min 36 2-ssec. Impromptu 2min 38 4-ssec md Indianapolis 2min 39sec. Roi TOFs figures were remarkable. In winning the Royal Trotting Cup he registered a world’s grass winning record for two niles, 4min 15 3-ssec, which was 10 seconds less than the record for the race icld jointly by Ahuriri, 1927, and Carmel, 1930. In running second to Worthy -fight in *he President’s Handicap, whose fmin 19sec was a record for an Auckland

horse, he further lowered his twp-miles record to 4min 14 l-ssec, this being the fourth time he had bettered 4min losec. His placed figures, 2min 36 2-ssee, in the Champion Handicap were one-fifth of a second under Harold Logan's world’s grass winning record, put up at New Brighton. It seems a coincidence that at Addington some weeks later Harold Logan should run second and also register 2min 3C 2-ssec. The veteran still holds the world’s two-miles placed record, 4miu 12 2-ssec.