TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22778, 14 January 1936, Page 13

TROTTING NOTES

' By Sentinel.

Forbury Park Nominations are due to-day for the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting. A Change.. It is reported that Vesuvius has been transferred from V; Alborn’s stable to the one controlled by J. S. Shaw. Saddle' Sitter* Racing under saddle seems to be coming back to favour and saddle-sitters will very probably receive more opportunities in the future. Southern Chief

The Wrack two-year-old Southern Chief has been attracting attention by the bril-liancy-of his track work at Addington. The Crowded Calendar . The fact that the Nelson Trotting Club hag decided to concel the meeting dated for February .1 and 3 suggests the overcrowded calendar.

Indianapolis Indianapolis will be sent an exhibition mile at the Timaru Trotting Club’s meeting. He would probably go to- a faster record on the race track than on the trotting track. The Difference

' - The'difference between theory and practice shows that the 35-minute interval between races is too" short for some punters. Some would still be late if the interval was 60 minutes. Navy Blue

The three-year-old black filly Navy Blue is a perfectly-mannered pacer. She won her third race for the season on the first day of the Greymouth Trotting Club’s recent meeting, and m,ade ; a much older, horse than herself, Doris Derby, step a mile in 2min 14sec to beat her *in the Paparua Handicap. Considering that the footing w r as a trifle loose, a solid performance on the part of Navy Blue to cover the eight furlongs on a four-furlong track in 2min 14 3-ssec. She is by Man-o’-War from a mare by Logan Pointer, and is trained by.S. A. Edwards. She has not been raced over a longer journey than a mile and a-half, but (says “Argus ”) has done everything asked of her, like a real racehorse. She should develop into a remunerative performer. Gallant Knight

Gallant Knight is by a two-minute trotter, Mr M'Elwyn, 1,591; out of Etaday. a pacer with a three-year-old record of 2.15}, and own sister to a two-minute pacer in Star Etawah, 1.59}. _Mr M'Elwyn is one of the three leading sires of early speed in America to-day (says an exchange), his get already including the champion race two-year-olds, Maid M'Elwyn, 2.2}, and Main M'Elwyn, 2.2}, and a three-year-old two-minute pacer in Mc-I-Win, 1.59}. Kashmary, 2.1}. Muscletone 2.2, Mac Hanover 2.2}, Mary M'Elwya 2.3}, Mac Aubrey 2.4}, Calumet Baetle 2.4}. Benedict 2.4}, and Short Hills 2.5, are others of his get. Mr M‘Elwyn is by Guy Axworthy, sire of three others in- the two-minute list —Lee Axworthy 1.58}, Guy M'Kinney 1.58}, and Ariou Guy 1.59}. Mr M'Elwyn is. out. of Widow Maggie 2.24}, dam of six in the 2.10 list, including Beuelewyn 2.1}. Widow Maggie was sot by Peter the Great, sire of 661 in the standard list, including Miss Harris M. 1.58}, champion pacing mare. The dam of Gallant Knight, Etady. was got by Daystar 2.5, a son of Peter the Great and Emily Ellen, who produced no fewer than 16 in the 2.10 list, and is one of the most famous of American brood mares. Etady is out of Bineta (dam of Star Etawah, 1.59}), by Etawah, whose daughters have also produced Dick Reynolds 1.59}, Quite Sure 2.1}, All Pep ,2.1}. Cyclone Pete 2.1}, Sam Rotan 2.3}, and Spencer M'Elwyn 2.4}. Bineta is out of Binesta 2.15|, dam of Leeward 2.5}, Estalee 2.9}, and three other standard performers. Binesta was by Bingara (son of Bingen), whose daughters produced 115 in the list, including Crawford 2.2}, Leeward 2.5}, Bacelli 2.6}, Mr, Kent 2.6}, and Charing Cross 2.6}. Binesta was out of The Princess Helen ’2.5}, pacing,, the dam also of Princess Etawah 2.3}, Etabelhi 2.5}, King Etawah 2.9}, and four other standard performers. The Princess Helen was by The Beau Ideal 2.15}, out of Queen Regent, dam of nine in the list, including Queen Abbess 2.3}, Major Woolworth 2.5}, and Jenny Dean 2.9}, Queen Regent was by Mambrino King from Estabella (dam of six in the list), by Alcantara — .Annabel, by George Wilkes —Jessie Popper (third dam of Mabel Trash 2.1}). by Mambrino Chief —Lena Pepper, by Sidi Eamet from the Robert Wickliffe mare, from whom, as will be readily seen, is based a very stout family.