TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26274, 4 October 1946, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel .October 5 .. .. Methven T.C. October 12, 19 .. Forbury Park T.C October 12. 19 .. Wanganui T.C

Jottings Ben Adam is being mentioned as a likely favourite for the Methven Cup. The local light-harness racing season will be opened at Forbury Park on Saturday of next week. Carisbrook has been doing well in his track work. He is reported to have lost his balance in slippery going when racing in the Shirley Handicap at Addington. The recent heavy rain in Canterbury has interfered with the preparation of some of the Trotting Cup candidates, who are backward in condition and cannot afford to miss any fast work. Mistydale promises to be a better mare this season than she was last, and Percy Volo is one of the most promising young trotters in the country. Both Percy Volo and Mistydale will be raced at the Forbury Park meeting next week. Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral (Lieutenant-general Sir Bernard Frevberg, V.C.) and Lady Freyberg have signified their intention of being present at Addington for the third day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Clubs Cup meeting on Saturday, November 9. Southland-bred horses, as a rule, can handle heavy going—perhaps because they get plenty of experience in it from the foal stage onwards! Whatever the reason (says " Ribbonwood ") Saturday’s sea of mud deterred them not, for the first and second horses in the President’s Handicap, Elation and Scotch Music, and the first three horses in the Farewell HandicapElation, Sea Born and Scotch Music—all hail from Southland. Other. Southlandbred winners on Saturday were Direct Medium and Grattan Bells. Pre-Eminence Pre-Eminence, second favourite on both totalisators for tile President’s Handicap at Addington last Saturday, failed to reveal the dash at the end of the race that characterised his good finishing efforts to record two seconds and a fourth at the recent spring meetings (says the Star-Sun). His second to Aberhall in the Advance Handicap on August 31 was a solid performance, as was his second to Navigate in the Freyberg Handicap, two miles, in 4min 21 2-ssec and his fourth to Sir Michael. Scottish Lady and Medical Student in the Electric Handicap at the New Brighton Club s meeting on September 7. On each of these* occasions when Pre-Eminence raced so well, the track was firm, so the only excuse that can be offered for his recent lapse is the slushy state of the course.