TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25717, 13 December 1944, Page 3

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel

The Winton Trotting Club, which has not raced for three years, has received 229 nominations for its meeting on December 30, an average of almost 29 per * a The Wellington Trotting Club will use its permit for a patriotic meeting on Saturday, February 16. The club’s summer meeting is scheduled for February 3, so that the club will be able to stage a two-day meeting at Trentham. An Interesting entry for the 1947 Wyndham Juvenile Stakes is a colt by Pacing Power from Bingen's Advice. Pacing Power was sired by Jack Potts from Free Advice who is also the dam of Bingen's Advice, an unraced mare by Great Bingen. Pacing Power has thus been mated with his half-sister and as this family is probably the best branch of the renowned Thelma tribe It is a rather interesting experiment. Scotland's Comet 2mtn, one of the latest sensations in American trotfing races, is by Scotland, sire of U. Scott. " Scotland’s Comet,” says an American writer, ” seems intent on lowering all existing half-mile track race records. Always anxious for the fray, he charges through a field of near two-minute trotters as if they were jogging.” It seems probable, It Is stated, that Scotland’s Comet’s new records will stand for a long time. The six juvenile pacens produced In the Juvenile Stakes at Wairio on Saturday were an outstanding lot (says Hampton), and on the score of blood could be compared with any in New Zealand. Darrington Hall outclassed the others, but he was more forward than any of his rivals, a factor which will stand to him when he contests the Juvenile Stakes at Winlon this month. He shows plenty of quality; is a bold and clean young pacer, and a level-headed youngster with It. Being by Dillon Hall, whose young stock are numerous in Southland, his showing impressed many breeders. His dam, Fair Wave, has not been bred from extensively, but what she has left have been good, and Darrington Hall looks certain to add further credit.