TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel Jottings W. A. Thomas, who has trained Money Mate since the Ashburton meeting and drove her when she won a double at Timaru last week, put in four years and a-half as a prisoner of war.

Charles Rex paid over three-quarters of a century when he won at the Cheviot meeting. The Great Parrish gelding is a rarity amongst pacers, as he races without hobbles. Promising Colt

Super Globe, who won at the Cheviot meeting, gave R. J. Berry his first success as a driver. Super Globe is a three-year-old colt by Springfield Globe from Betty Wrack, by Wrack —Nonnie. by Galindo—Ardzigalar. by VikingMercy, by Stonyhurst, a winner of the New Zealand Derby in Sir George Clifford’s colours. Super Globe .has thoroughbred blood on both sides of his pedigree, and it has successfully mingled with the light harness strains. Barrier Progress The members of the New Brighton Trotting Club decided at the annual meeting by 64 votes to 40 to retain the club’s individuality and not link up with the Metropolitan Trotting Club. Mr B. J. McKenna and others favoured racing at Addington, and suggested that New Brighton should be retained as a track for trainers. The decision of the meeting did not show any desire to consider the convenience of patrons of trotting who could be catered for at Addington with less expense and inconvenience than at New Brighton. For some time three clubs have been racing at Addington, and this is a good reason w’hy they should amalgamate if it could be done without loss of permits. The development of speed suggests that the greatest improvement at Addington would consist of enlarging the track to seven furlongs. At Addinfgton light harness racing flourishes, and at New Brighton it merely exists. This statement is justified by the 'financial results of the meetings held on the two tracks. The failure to amalgamate is really an anchor on the progress of light harness racing and breeding.