TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26077, 14 February 1946, Page 8

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel

Jottings Sea Born's record is 13 starts for J wins, 3 places and 4 times fourth for £4935 in stakes. Stimulant The reported sale of Stimulant at lOOOgns makes the Grattan Loyal gelding an interesting accepter for the Gore meeting. Stimulant is how seven years old. He won at Forbury Park in 3min 23 4-ssec, and is on 3min 28sec at Gore Northern Stakes Winner / Snowflake, the winner ol Hie Great Northern Trotting Stakes, of £750, is a piebald by Dillon Hall—Silk Stockings, a piebald mare of unknown breeding. Snowflake changed bands before the race at a price said to be £6OO. Stirling Castle Stirling Castle, who Is on the front line of the Riversdale Handicap, of 3min 29sec, at Gore, went 3min 27sec when he won at the Winton meeting. In December at Forbury Park Stirling Castle went 3min 27 2-ssec when third to Plunder Bar and Volo Audubon. Classes at Gore None of the half dozen horses that tilled the places in the Knapdale Trot appear in the light-harness events on the second card for the Gore meeting. The class on the first day was 3min 37scc, and on the second day it is 3min 33scc and 3mri 29-sec. New Brighton Meeting A Press Association messace from Christchurch states that Scott Axworthy. 24 yards behind, and Lady Dawn, -4 yards behind, should be added to the list of acceptors for the New Brighton Handicap at the New Brighton Clubs meeting on Saturday, and that Native Scott and Trusty Scott were included by mistake in the telegraphed list. Czardas Czardas proved himself to be an exceptionally good four-year-old when he won the Strowan Handicap from Wade Lane at Addington on Saturday. Beginning smartly, he was following Rea Nugget. Bonny Bridge, Voltcrra and Paperman with three furlongs to go, but (savs the Press) once Hooper asked him a question he quickly put the issue beyond doubt. All the progeny of the Author Dillon mare Nanette have won races for O. E. Hooper. Her first winner was Privateer, by Man o’ War; (hen came Fragment, by Maxegin; Staracc. by Nelson Derby; and to Jack Potts she .eft Knave C f Diamonds, Radical and Czardas