TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

Ejy Sentinel According to the Star-Sun, Aerial Scott lost 100 yards by two breaks and then won by 15 lengths. Fcrnbrook Lad scr should have been included in the field for the Wavell Trot at the Beaumont meeting. The first mile of the Easter Handicap was run in 2min 12 2-ssec, a mile and ahalf in 3min 17 3-ssec, and Double Peter got home in 4min 17 2-ssec. Highland Fling broke at the start of the Welcome Handicap, and put in a brilliant run to finish second. Sprayman went the first half-mile in linin ssee and the mile in 2min 11 2-ssec. At Timaru, Highland Fling went a mile ill 2min 9sec in a work-out. In the Mood has improved with age. and her record is three wins, three seconds, and two fourths in her last nine starts. She is now five years old, and was got by U. Scott from Princess Napoleon, by Silk Thread. In the Mood is a sister to Scottish Emperor. Sprayman, the winner of. the Welcome Handicap, is a chestnut gelding by Gamble from Krina, by Jewel Chimes from a Rothschild mare. That is all the information supplied by the Trotting Stud Book. Jewel Chimes was got by Abbey Bells—Jewell's Heiress, by Heir-at-Law— Nellie Grey, by Conway. Abbey Bells and Jewell’s Heiress were amongst the very vauable importations made by A. and G. Tye when they established the Allandale Stock Farm at Mentone, Victoria. Rothschild has long been established as one of the great foundation pillars to be found in the Trotting Stud Book.

Discussing Syncopate, whom he bred from Sympathy. Dr Guy Haskins mentioned that at one stage he despaired of saving the life of the Jack Potts gelding, as he was left blind and paralysed as the result of an accident. Syncopate was a family pet, and Dr Haskins persevered with him, and eventually had the satisfaction of seeing him fit and well again. Sympathy, who was the dam of Hinkler, Rose Marie, and Symmetry, was 24 years old when she foaled Syncopate, and he was the last of her progeny. Last season Syncopate won two races in the North Island, and In his winning performances he has defeated some useful horses.

Races such as the New Zealand Trotting Stakes, of £6OO, give a great fillip to breeding because such stakes are won by horses bred to develop high-class formi This should cause breeders to* recognise that the breeding of short-pedigree mares to third-rate sires has a very remote chance of producing first-class performers. It has been an uphill battle to cater for young trotters, and the Forbury Park Trotting Club, after trying for several years, had to drop the idea because it produced unsatisfactory results. The results were partly due to the inability of trainers to educate and keep young trotters to a level gait. in the Trotting Stakes won by Aerial Scott, nine horses went to the post, and they all broke up in the first furlong. In the United States they have produced a two-year-old trotter that has stepped a mile in 2min, but in New Zealand a £6OO stake finds a field of nine incapable of maintaining a level gait over a furlong from a standing start. The reason has been obvious for years, and a sort of official ■recognition of the general inability to educate trotters is shown by the introduction of the front hobble.