TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26704, 25 February 1948, Page 8

TROTTING NOTES

By the Sporting Editor* February 28 .. •• Wellington TC. February 28 .. Kaikoura T.C. March 6 ~ Timaru T.C. March 6 .... Invercargill T.C. Mnrnh 13 .. .. Cambridge T.C. March 13. 20. 27 .. Metropolitan T.C. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT "Argument,” Port Chalmers.—The results of the qualifying races did not count.

Jotting ■Might trotting is well established in Victoria, and attendances are averaging in the vicinity of 20,000.

First Experience The Australian trotter, Van White, did not handle the bends at Epsom with confidence. It was his first expereince of a right-handed track. Greyhound’s Record The world record for a mile and a-haif is held by Greyhound, who in 1937 trotted the distance in 3min 2lsec.

Right Royal M B. Edwards has Right Royal In splendid condition, and should soon place him for a win. Bright Future Bellisima is on her way to tighter classes. Her winning performance on Saturday was an outstanding one, as she loot about 24 yards at the start. Wellington Scratchings

Scratchings to-day for the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday were. Stewards’ Handicap, Real Nugget; Champion Trotters' Handicap. Margin; Sharpe Handicap, Margin; Wallaceville Handicap. Ikaroa; Waiwhetu Handicap, Ikaroa.

Easter Meeting At its Easter meeting the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club will distribute a total of £32,000 in stake money. The main attraction will be the A. I. Rattray Memorial, which is governed by similar conditions to those under which the New Zealand Trotting Cup is run.

Tough Horse St. Julian, who trotted a mile in 2min llsec in 1880, was one of the toughest horses ever bred in America. Owing to his unruly habits and bad temper, his trainer, Orrin Hickok, who had nearly despaired of getting him ready to trot solidly, decided to work him into submission. So severe was the programme mapped out for this speedy but wayward trotter, says an American writer, that he was reputed to have worked a total of 54 miles in one day, made up of a jog of 17 miles, a two-mile heat in smin 40sec, a tvalk, and another two-mile heat a little faster. After another walk, two more two-mile runs in smin 15sec, and a mile in 2min 30sec were his tasks. The work went on with six or more miles ranging from 2min 40sec to 2min 30sec, finishing the day with a rousing work-out over a mile.