TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25302, 12 August 1943, Page 3

TROTTING NOTES

Nominations for the two trotting events at the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting are due on Tuesday. Desmond’s Pride, the brother to Certisslmus, will have his next race at Addington on August 21, He is engaged in the National Four-year-old Trotting Stakes. Now a five-year-old, the Sandydale trotter Blackdale should go on to better things. He showed great promise on the grass tracks down south, but did not appear to be at home on the clay track when brought to Forbury Park. Coleen Travis made only three appearances last season, winning one of her races and finishing second in another. The Travis Axworthy mare has certainly not been over-raced, and she should add to her record during the present season. The Quite Sure gelding I’m Sure paced solid races on southern tracks last season, and very little improvement will find him winning during the present season. His best effort so far was probably his second to Marco Polo in the Musselburgh Handicap at the Forbury Park summer meeting.

The Auckland system of handicapping, which was described as the essence of simplicity and equity, did not go before the Trotting Conference. In spite of the. universal support that was predicted for it, it was withdrawn.