TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26625, 22 November 1947, Page 5

TROTTING NOTES

By the Sporting Editor November 22, 29 .. Wellington T.C December 13 .... New. Brighton T.C December 26 .. .. Ashburton T.C December 26 .. • - Gore T.C Jottings West Point is a pacer from whom improved form can be expected before long. Useful Sort Metropole has collected two wins and two seconds in nine starts this season* ” six-year-old by Sandydale from Sea Foam, he is a useful sort, and should pay his way in the loose-class trotters’ race at Hutt Park to-day. Lusty Volo Mare At Rangiora on Labour Day Volometre won the Rangiora Trot by three lengths after leading over the last half-mile, but the field was not a strong one. A five-year-old by Lusty Volo from Millimetre, she is engaged at Wellington to-day. Winner at Auckland At the Auckland meeting last month Gold Flyer went 2min 44sec from a 2min 53sec mark to win the Parnell Handicap from a big field. Trained at Claudelands* by T M. Robertson, Gold Flyer Is a four-year-old gelding by Gold Bar from Mavis de Oro, and he is due to race at Wellington to-day. Showed Promise At the North Canterbury meeting on Labour Day Cultivator showed promise by collecting a second and a third, and he should add interest to the running of the Woburn Handicap at Hutt' Park. Cultivator is one or C. Isaacson’s team, and is a four-year-old by Jack Potts from Biddy Harvester. Assured of Support Pinto, one of L. F. Berkett’s team, has been started six times this season, and his record is two wins, a third, and a fourth. At the Auckland meeting last month he won a double, putting up 4min 28sec from a 4min 44sec mark to win the October Handicap from Vera Lyne and Marshal Ney. Pinto will have a big following in his engagements at Hutt. Park. He is an aged gelding by Dillon Hall from Reylena. Returning to Form Caudray, who is now in R. J. Berry’s stable, showed signs of returning to form when he finished fourth in the Manchester Handicap at Addington, and he appeals as an early winner. He is a six-year-old geld’ng by Dillon Hall from Mademoiselle, by Rey d'e Oro from Fairy Lady, the dam of winners in Fair Wave, Sea Wave, and Rollicking Wave.