TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25456, 10 February 1944, Page 3

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel Three of the fields for the New Brighton Trotting Club’s meeting are well over the safety number for the mile and a-quarter P °The New Brighton Trotting Club has received the following nominations for the Waimairi Handicap of ~,fi? oo knnald 4.32; two miles:—Busted Flush, Logan, Golden River Happy Man, Braw Lass, Integrity, Oxford Scholar Lady Carol, Stormtost, Battle Colours, Gold Pot, Accountant, Parrish Lad. Forty-three nominations we re received for the Maiden Handicap, of £2OO (class 3.5), to be run at. the New Brighton Trot ting Club’s meeting. V. arg % f +he mmnts attracted by the majority of the events on the programme. The New Brighton Trotting Club s meet mg set down for February 19 at Adding ton will be held irrespective of whether railway restrictions are °r not. f< president of the club (Mr W- Thomson) states that there are more than enough horses in Christchurch a™* th ® to warrant the holding of the meeting. Surprise Potts, who was sent to Auck land by R. B. Berry in place of My Lady Luck, has not raced sin ce 1941, when as a three-year-old he recorded two firsts, three seconds and a third in 16 starts. Surprise Potts, who is by Jack Potts fron Sonoma Bell, scored his wins at HokitiKa for C. King, but his best effort was at the Banks Peninsula Racing Club HJf,ing, when he ran second to Statuette in the Waihola Park Trot, going 3min 20 l-ssec off 3.37.