TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25718, 14 December 1944, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel • Acceptances for the Gore meeting on Boxing Day are due to-day. South Island horses nominated for tne Auckland Cup are Lady Dawn. Sea Born, Worthy Cross, Bulldozer, Catalpa, Labour Day, and Parrish Lad. Sea Born Is in the b&om for the Auckland Trotting Cup. If the going is deep, the much-improved Southlander will be in very warm demand, but on a fast track several others are likely to be preferred. F. J. Smith has two good candidates in Volo Senwood and Hilda Potts, and there will be a strong team from Canterbury. Of the southern horses engaged in the Gore Cup nothing appeals more than Dundee Sandy. The Nightcaps pacer has shown outstanding form, his record being three firsts, a second and a third In five starts. At the Invercargill meeting in October he won the Thomson Handicap in impressive style. Athlone Direct, whose consistent form was rewarded with a victory in the Hauraki Handicap at Claudelands, is one of a family of winners. He is by Quite Sure, from Wild Moness, by Wildwood Junior, twice winner of the New Zealand Trotting Cup, from Moness, by Prince Imperial, from Miss Kate, by Blackwood Abdallah. Other winners produced from Wild Moness include Wild Guy, by Guy Parrish, Sagamore, by Native King, Golden Moness, Sir Victor and Lady Moness, alt by Jack Potts. Master Mariner, who filled the role of runner-up in the Wairio Juvenile Stakes, was obviously backward and it appears that he had not done much work owing to a cold. He went a good race while his condition lasted and, apart from tangling slightly when under pressure near the home turn, gave an even display of pacing. He is built on bigger lines than his full-brother, Navigate. At the Wyndham Show on Saturday First Water, with a foal at foot, by Dillon Hall, won the section for brood mare with foal at foot. First Water is in her twenty-third year, but is in excellent condition and her foal this year is the fourteenth she has had. She is one of the most prolific producers bred in Southland, as four of her produce are included in the 2min lOsec list. The breeding of some of the entries for the Wyndham Club’s semi-classic race in 1947 is of interest. A bay filly owned by Mr J. R. McMurray is by Dillon Hall from Ochiltree, a good mare which Mr McMurray raced several years ago. Ochiltree is by Wrack from Trix Pointer, Trotting Cup winner in 1919. This filly has the right blood to make a good racehorse. A filly entered by Mr D. McFarlane is a half-sister to Slavonic, being by the imported American horse Light Brigade from Rustic Maid. A bay colt entered in the name of Mr F. W, McGill is by U Scott from the Southland recordholding pacing mare Rocks Ahead.