TROTTING NOTES
By Sentinel Jottings It is rather interesting to learn that the Invercargill Trotting Club, operating in the hub of Southland, lost money over the season's operations. Southland has produced many good performers, and it seems strange that it cannot make its principal club a winner. Promoters of American trotting meetings have made further overtures to A. Holmes to take Gold Bar to the United Slates in September. Holmes’s reply will depend entirely upon the attitude of the Department of Agriculture, which at present bans the importation of American horses because of the alleged prevalence of “ sleeping sickness ” in the States. Some relaxation of the ban is hoped for by the trotting authorities. Wllonyx Sold
Wilonyx, who was trained for the New Zealand' Trotting Sakes by P. P. Gallagher for Mr E. J. Kennerley, will in future race in the Interests of Mr H. Bull, Auckland, the owner of War Guard. A three-year-old filly, Wilonyx is by Bill B from Princess Onyx, who took a record of 3min 33sec as a trotter. Bred by J..J. Kennerley, Princess Onyx is by Native King) (a Dominion Trotting Handicap winner), from a well-known performer in Onyx. ‘
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26214, 26 July 1946, Page 2
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194TROTTING NOTES Otago Daily Times, Issue 26214, 26 July 1946, Page 2
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