TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25673, 23 October 1944, Page 6

TROTTING NOTES

Festivity won at Methven in 4min 31 l-ssec and is regarded as one likely to improve. Acceptances for the Invercargill Trotting Club’s meeting are due to-morrow. A gold mounted whip, the gift of Miss K. Henderson, will be presented to the. driver of the winner of the Landon Handicap at Oamaru to-day. The programme for the Forbury Park spring meeting is in circulation. The principal event has a stake of £IOOO for a 4.32 class.

Larry Grattan was placed four times in seven starts last season. He went 3min 27 2-ssec at Invercargill last season, and is on 3min 43scc in the Balfour Trot at Gore.

Up-to-date Jack Potts tops the list of winning sires with 12 wins and £6086 in stakes. Grattan Loyal is second with six wins and £2853 10s in stakes. » Mr Norman Wade, the newly-elected president of the Auckland Trotting Club, has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the executive of the New Zealand Trdtting Conference caused through the death of Mr E. G. Bridgens.

Winning owners so far this season are P P. Gallagher £1705, B. Grice £1609, S. T. Webster £1265, W. J. Suttie £1175, N. Matyasevic £940, W. S. Bennett £BBO, and Mrs W. T. Lowe £BSO.

The Forbury Park spring meeting on December 2 will again clash with the second day ot the New Zealand Cup meeting. After that there will be no other racing or trotting meeting until Ashburton and Gore, and Wingatui on December 26. Tiie trotting track records for Oamaru have stood for some considerable time. They are as follows:—One mile and a-quarter, Indianapolis, 2min 36 3-ssec (1935); one mile and a-half, Casanova, 3min 17 2-ssec (1936); thirteen furlongs, Gold Salute, 3min 35 4-ssec (1939); two miles. Southern Chief, 4min 20 l-ssec (1939); one mile saddle, Kingcraft, 2min 8 2-ssec. Mr William Garrard, whose death occurred last week, was a very popular member of the press gallery in his days of active journalism. He was an enthusiastic follower of the light harness sport, and assisted in the compilation of the ’latest volume of the Trotting Stud Book. Mr Garrard will be greatly missed by the legion of friends he made during his long association with sport.