TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25958, 26 September 1945, Page 2

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel

Jottings The Invercargill Trotting Club has decided to inaugurate a Southland Stakes for three-year-olds, to be run in 1947. .. Nominations are due to-day for the Forbur.y Park Trotting Club's spring meeting. The well-endowed programme will, no doubt, attract a good response from owners. The report that Kid Logan was dead is contradicted by the owner, Mr G. W. Munro, who states that the mare is running with a Ringtrue yearling filly on a farm in the Kurow district. YVinton Juvenile Stakes

At a meeting of the committee of the Winton Trotting Club, presided over by Mr W. G. Clark, it was decided that the 1947 Winton Juvenile Stakes would carry a stake of £3OO and woifld be an open event instead of being restricted to three-year-olds trained south of the Waitaki six months before the meeting. Three-year-olds having won one race will be penalised 12 yards and those with two or more successes 24 yards. The conditions of the race were also altered so that the first forfeit of £1 would be declared on general nomination day, and those remaining in after that date would pay (ho full fee of £4. Messrs H. Earl, P. Boylen, and W. G. Clark were appointed to draw up a programme, and the stakes for the club's meeting on December 29 were fixed at £2llO. Mr Clark extended a welcome to the new members of the committee, and 51 new members were elected to the club. Methven Meeting

With two horses. Lucky Loyal and Tam o' Shanter, engaged, W. R. Butt will be well represented in the Methven Cup, to be run at the annual meeting of the Methven Trotting Club on Saturday. Tam o’ Shanter will start from the limit and Lucky Loyal from 36 yards behind. Last season (says the Star-Sun) Lucky Loyal improved to gain five firsts, one second, one third, and one fourth, his best effort being when he beat Radical, Play Safe, Scottish Emperor, Nola Scott, Jeeves, Golden Shadow, Loyal Nurse, Pre-Eminence, Technique, and Bulky Dillon in the Wilkin Handicap at Addington last March in 4min 22sec for the two miles. He started from 24 yards, and, being a slow starter, was well back with a mile and a-half to go. He was still badly placed with a round to go. but the speed and endurance he showed to race on the outside and win by a neck made his capabilities plain. At the recent meeting at Addington he gave a similar performance to beat all but Cameronian in the Queen Mary Handicap. He was handicapped on 24 yards behind in a field of 16, and his inability to get off the mark quickly caused him to be well back in ninth place with six furlongs to go. He made a brilliant run to take second place to Cameronian ‘.who started from 12 yards) at the mile and three-quarters post, but, although he fought on in the straight, he could not catch up. Lucky Loyal s time for the two miles was 4min 21 3-ssec. He paced the first mile and a-half in 3mm 20 1 -ssec and the final four furlongs in Imin 1 2-ssee. At Methven he will have a smaller field to contend with and a bigger course to work on. This should be to his advantage.