DUNEDIN TROTTING CUP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26677, 24 January 1948, Page 5

DUNEDIN TROTTING CUP

For bury Park Club’s Meeting FIELDS AND PROSPECTS A record attendance is expected at Forbury Park to-day, when the local trotting club will open its summer meeting with a card of goocl fields, which include horses from Canterbury and Southland stables who have recent good form to recommend them. The principal attraction will be the Dunedin Cup, for which Jackie Guy has been the only scratching and the remainder are all likely to go to the post. Most of the horses from northern stables arrived yesterday morning and were given only easy work, without throwing any further light on their prospects. The track will be very fast, and horses likely to be in favour are:— 11.00: Vauxhall Handicap.—Bellisima, Frances Grattan, Sure Maid. 11.45: Electric Handicap, First Division.—Trustee, Blonde Sailor, Loyal Guest. Second Division.—Substitute, Rasponi, Bull’s Eye. 12.35: Musselburgh Handicap.—National' Velvet, Volo Lad, Dandy Grattan. 1.25: Dunedin Cup.—Checkmate-Limerick Pride bracket, Imperial Grattan, Safari. 2.10: Otago Handicap.—Belmoral, Jason’s Quest, Excalibur-Misty-dale bracket.

2.55: Southland Handicap.—Henry of Navarre, Gough’s Pride, Ladylike. 3.40: King George Handicap.—Dragoman, Notus-Novelda bracket, >, Red Hussar. 4.35: Flying Handicap.—Maori Home, Plunder Bar, CheckmateLimerick Pride bracket. The fields are as follows:

Vauxhall Handicap. Of £SOO. Class 3.24; trotters. One Mile and five furlongs..— Frances Grattan, Loyal Toast, Lucrative, Percy Volo, Water Weed scr, Belle Header, Buncrana, Logan Max. 12yds bhd, Bellisima, Port Bowen, Sure Maid 36, Sure Note 48. Electric Handicap. Of £4OO. Class 3.33. One mile and a-half.—Abbeydorney, All Ashore, Baadin, Bull’s Eye, Courtly, Decreed, Emondale, Gay Note, Grattan Wave, Happy Dale, High Command, Keymaster, Loyal Anthem, Loyal Guest, New Venture, Our Babe, Patricia Hall, Sandy’s Comet, Shy Sonoma, Soviet Star, Substitute, Sure Bond, Tautuku scr. Air Mail, Kimono Girl, Rasponi, Trustee 12yds bhd, Blonde Sailor, Luck Fellow 24. Musselburgh Handicap. Of £7OO. Class 3.43. One mile and five furlongs.—Carisbrook, Clueless, Dandy Grattan, Expensive, Luck Meg, National Velvet, Quite Evident, Volo Lad scr, Janet Hall, Jill, Money Mate 12yds bhd, Indigo 36. Dunedin Cup Handicap. Of £I4OO. Class 4.29. Two miles.—Direct Medium, Golden Shadow, Limerick Pride, Safari scr, Ann Scott, Pre-Eminence, Imperial Grattan 12yds bhd, Fancy Goods, Van Logan 24, Checkmate, Follow Me 36. Otago Handicap, of £BOO. Class 3.46. Trotters. One mile and five furlongs.— Belmoral, Flying Scott, Gold Weed, Jason’s Quest, Royal Stone scr, Excalibur, Jimmy Dillon, Paul Parrish 12yds bhd, Frank Scott, Nationalist, Royal Dale 24, Castigate, Mistydale 36, Pardon Me 48.

Southland Handicap, of £6OO. Class 3.29. One mile and a-half.—Emondale, Henry of Navarre, Loyal Anthem, Magnificent, Red Herring, Sand Piper, Special Effort, Surely, Systematic scr, Ace of Diamonds, Brydone Hall, Captain Sandy Goughs Pride, Peter’s Pal, Sally Lynn 12yds bhd, Ladylike 24. King George Handicap of £BSO. Class 3.5. One mile and three furlongs.-Bonny Scot't Coral Princess, Darrington Hall, Dooniiolme, Indigo, Lady Spray, Navy Queen, Notus, Novelda, Redcliffe Direct, Red Hussar, Technique, Tom Gundy scr, Dragoman, Northern Lass, Scholarship, Tam o’ Shanter 12yds bhd. Flying Handicap, of £llOO. Class 3.1. One mile and three furlongs.—Ann Scott, Bonnie Jack, Checkmate, Direct Medium, Fancy Goods, Golden Shadow, Grattan, Limerick Pride, Maori Home, Safari Stimulant, Van Logan scr, Follow Me, Plunder Bar 12yds bhd. Turco 36.

Wingatui Sprinter It was reported yesterday that Frances has been getting down on her heels and it was deemed inadvisable to start her on the earlier days at Trentham. She has two engagements to-day. Substantial Winnings Salmagundi’s stock have won £25,000 this season. In eight seasons in New Zealand they have accumulated about £165,000. Spare Part is not the first to win a big two-mile race, as Piastre was successful in an Auckland Cup. Beau le Havre It is reported that Beau le Havre has | been entered for the Sydney Cup. He 1 may then go to Melbourne for the Alister Clark Stakes at Moonee Valley. Chelandry Stock A parade of Chelandry stud yearlings, two and three-year-olds and brood mares and foals, numbering about 100 in all, will be held at the Invercargill Showgrounds to-morrow afternoon, All the horses to be submitted at the dispersal sale on Wednesday next have been assembled and boxed at the showgrounds in recent weeks and the parade will pro- ! vide the public with an opportunity of viewing the stock of one of the most famous thoroughbred studs in the country.