TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25385, 17 November 1943, Page 4

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel In the 16 races decided at Addington. Bonny Bridge was the only winner that was trained on the course. The pool on the Ollivier Handicap was £18,574 10s, compared with £30,836 on the Trotting Cup. . The first half-mile of the Ollivier Handicap was run in lmin 6sec, the mile in 2min 10 4-ssec, and the mile and a-half in 3min 15 2-ssec. On the final event at Addington £18,604 10s went through the fotalisator, and the investments were balanced two minutes after the advertised time. Burt Scott, Shadow Maid, Haughty, Bayard, and Ronald Logan finished in a bunch behind Springfield Globe, Fine Art, and Gold Bar in the Sprint Championship. Trusty Scott is said to have lost 50 yards at the start of the November Handicap, in which lie finished second in 4min 23 2-sssc from a 4min 32sec mark.

Gold Flight appeared to be hopelessly boxed in the Le Lievre Handicap, but found a lucky opening on the rails and got through to win in 4min 24 4-ssec from a 4min 36sec mark. The Gaillard gelding Sports Guide, who won the November Handicap in 4min 21 l-ssec from a 4min 35sec mark, will join F. J. Smith’s stable at Auckland. It is said that Indian Clipper cost his present owner £IOOO. He made an early return by winning the William Hayward Handicap, worth £490 to the winner. The Ringtrue gelding Parshall went 4min 20 l-ssec in the Ollivier Handicap, and so supplied a good reason for his inclusion in the Trotting Cup, in which he was on a 4min 27sec mark. A card of good fields is assured for the Forbury Park' Trotting Club’s, meeting. The nominations include Gold Flight., Happy Man, Shadow Maid, Gold Pot, Joan Conquest, and others who were in ■ the limelight in connection with the Trotting Cup meeting.