TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

Uy Sentinel. A Pleasing Feature

A particularly pleasing feature of the list of Dorses remaining in the Ashburton Stakes consists in the fact that the darn of every one of them figures in the Trotting Stud Book. This ig somewhat unique in the history of light-harness racing in New Zealand, and probably the very first time that a high-class field has not contained something with a lopsided pedigree. The fact indicates progress, and suggests that owners are now fully awake to the fact that it requires a really well-bred horse to fight a finish for success in an important race. It also suggests that the stimulated interest taken in the compilation of the latest issues of the Stud Book has met with a reward which will become greater if breeders keep alive to their own interests. Systems That Spell Success

With the win and place the returns for the New Brighton meeting went up f 4540. Last year the single ot one, two, three was in use. At the Forbury Park meeting the one, two and place machine proved a great success, so far as the club is concerned, because the returns showed a decided advantage. The onetwo and place machine makes it more difficult to make a complete loss, and hence tends to keep more money in circulation than any other system. It is the best system for a club, and certainly promotes pedestrianism for punters, as it keeps them moving around and around the totalisator building.

Worthy Binge» The death is reported of Worthy Bingen, by Nelson Bingen—Bertha Bell, and a brother to two noted pacers in Peter Bingen and Great Bingen.' Unlike his relatives, Worthy Bingen was a trotter, and he won a number of races in the colours of the Christchurch sportsman, Mr M. O'Brien. At the stud Worthy Bingen left a number of goodclass racehorses, the best being Worthy Queen, whose trotting record of 2min 3 3-ssec for a mile is likely to staud for many a day. Worthy Bingen was 18 years old when he died. It is rather interesting to- note that between 1913 and 1932 Bertha Bell produced 16 foals, and of those that lived only two, in Worthy Bingen and King True, got by the chestnut Travis Axworthy, were chestnuts. Not only was Worthy Bingen a chestnut, but also a trotter, whereas his more famous brothers, Great Bingen and Peter Bingen, were browns and pacers

A Great Sire The American-bred pacing sire, Wrack, 2min 2|sec, seems destined to beat his excellent record of la6t season, during which he sired 91 winners and 155 horso» that finished in a place, the family's total stake earnings being £15,708. With only four months of the present season completed and but 14 of the 55 meetings disposed of (says "Argus "), Wrack's sons and daughters have won 19 races. Besides this very creditable record from a numerical point of view, he has sired the champion pacer of the Dominion in

Indianapolis, 2min 1 2-ssec, who won the New Zealand Trotting Cup, Clarkson Memorial Handicap, and the Free-for-All; Tempest, who finished second to the champion in the Clarkson Memorial and the Free-for-All, and the best trotter of the present period, in Sea Gift, who won the Dominion Handicap, the exclusive event of the season for trotters. Another member of the family who did well was First Wrack, who won the Sockburn and the Middleton Handicaps at the Cup meeting at Addington. At Dunedin, Noble Prince registered two easy wins,' and established a track record for a mile and three furlongs by pacing the distance. in 3min lsec. Flotsam is a member of the trotting gait, who has won two races, while others are v Casanova, Chechaheo, "Wrecker, Iraq, Cloudy Range, and Captain Wrack.