TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26774, 18 May 1948, Page 8

TROTTING NOTES

By the Sporting Editor May 22 Wellington T.C. May 29 Canterbury Park T.C. June 5, 7 .... Ashburton T.C. ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT "Inquirer," Dunedin. Lawn Derby lmin 59 2-ssec, Gold Bar lmin 59 3-ssee, and Haughty lmin 59 4-ssec, have stepped inside two minutes' at Addington.

Jottings Nominations for the Ashburton meeting are due on Thursday. Mountain Hall paced good races at Forburv Park for,two second placings and a reproduction of that form would make him dangerous at Hutt Park. In Winning Form

Sandpiper is in winning form and she can both sprint and stay. She is engaged in the Winter Handicap at Huit Park, but will be giving away a second if she starts. Attack on Record

The committee of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club is endeavouring to arrange for Highland Fling to attempt to lower Lawn Derby’s mile record of lmin 59 2-ssec at its meeting next week. By Lucky Jack Merrymaker, a place-getter at Timaru on Saturday, is a two-year-old by Lucky Jack from Arietta and is one of O. E. Hooper’s team. He will come into favour for the New Zealand Sapling Stakes at Ashburton next month. Broke Badly Maudeen was made a hot favourite for the Mark Memorial Handicap at Auckland on Saturday, but she broke badly' in home stretch just when she started a run from third position, and dropped out. She was allowed to go out 5/9 in the betting for the Farewell Handicap and she won the second division in good style from Single Direct. Won a Double

Henry of Navarre won over two miles and a mile and a-quarter at Auckland on Saturday. There is more than a touch of class about the Springfield Globe pacer, and if he has dropped his tendency to dwell at the barrier he will go a long way through the classes. Southern Trotter

Bingen Dale’s four most recent starts have produced three wins. At the Wyndharo meeting in March he won the Ferry Handicap, of one mile and five furlongs, and later in the day he was successful in the Menzies Handicap, of two miles. At Auckland on Saturday he won the Royal Handicap, of two miles, in 4min 41 l-sscc from a 4.49 mark on a dead track. An aged gelding by Sandydale from Effie’s Last, Bingen Dale is trained at Invercargill by A. Dawson.

Ashburton T.C. entries and forfeits. Nominations for the winter meeting and final forfeits for the New Zealand Futurity Stakes, 1948, and the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, 1948, close with the secretary, Ashburton, on Thursday, 20th inst., at 8 p.m.—Advt.