TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26233, 17 August 1946, Page 5

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel August 24, 31 .. Metropolitan T.C. August 31 .. .. Auckland T.C. September 7 .. New Br-ighton T.C. September 21 Wellington T.C. October 5 .. .. Methven T.C. October 5 .. .. New Brighton T.C. Jottings Withdrawals in connection with the first day of the Metropolitan meeting are due on Tuesday. ~ . In the Mood shaped well at the matincg meeting held at Addington on Thursday. Dunmore is headed for the tighter The Methven Cup will be worth £IOOO this season, and it will be open to horses that can do 4min 36sec or better. The Wreck gelding Gelert shaped in rather impressive style when he won at Addington on Thursday. Royal Gamble is in work again at Mataura and probably will be raced at the Otago Hunt Club's meeting next month. Lady Diane, who won last season’s Timaru Nursery Stakes, is now in W. R. Butt's stable. Turco is one of the early fancies for the Winter Handicap at Addington , next Saturday. The Southland pacer Van Horn, an aged gelding by New Derby from De Oro’s Fancy, is now owned and trained by H. J. Smith. Gold Bar tingled in- his hobbles at the matinee meeting held at Addington on Thursday, but when balanced cut out 10 furlongs in 2min 37 2-ssec—around a 2min 6sec clip. Gold Bar shows a retention of the remarkable brilliance which brought him into prominence. The New Season The light harness racing season, which starts this month, should prove the most successful ever held in New Zealand. It is quite safe to predict a general increase in stakes and a corresponding improvement in class, and the result should be good racing. The attention now being paid to breeding is reflected in the pedigrees of young horses that are engaged in coming events. It has been necessary to Impress on those interested the importance of breeding, and this is bearing good fruit. In conformation and speed the horses seen out in the principal events now bear the appearance of real racehorses. The improvement that has been made in this direction could be assisted if scribes did not cut reference to a pedigree just when it reaches the point where its value as the foundation of quality in conformation and racing merit can be gauged.