IN SADDLE AND SULKY.

Otago Witness, Issue 3995, 7 October 1930, Page 52

IN SADDLE AND SULKY.

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lca P s for the Oamaru meeting will be declared on Saturday.

Nominations for the Auckland Club’s spring meeting are due on Friday. Automatic carries every indication of meeting & Sh ° rt PIICe at the Waikat ®

Don Chief, a well-performed Tasmanian owTer 1S un< er °® er to an Auckland

Handicaps for the Oamaru Club’s Labour Day fixture will be declared on Saturday.

Joy Bird has a fine turn of speed, but she lacks the stamina that would put her among the best two-milers.

Now that the tracks are becoming firmer Radio should be worth following on the country circuit.

. .Grand Light is certainly a very promising pacer, but he is not yet up to the New Zealand Cup class. The pacers will have the New Zealand Cup to themselves this year, not one straigh-out trotter having been nominated. Silver Bingen looks certain to win good races. _ The Nelson Bingen four-year-old won with a lot in hand at Geraldine.

Etta Cole is reported to have built up considerably, and she will have her next race at the Auckland spring meeting. Bell Axeworthy is a brilliant mare, and she*will carry heavy support if she is started at the Waikato meeting on Saturday.

The iiiighsh trotting mare Linnett the Great is back in work at Epsom, but it will be some time before F. J. Smith has her ready to show her best. Speed. King, who is engaged at the Waikato meeting, has not won a race for about five years. He is not nearly so good as his name would suggest. If C. S. Donald gets Dundas Boy properly wound up for the New Zealand Cup the Brent Locanda pacer will give the others something to do to beat him. Man o’ Belle is now being trained at Epsom by F. J. Smith. The Man o’ War mare is now a six-year-old, and has still to win a race.

Pink Sumi- W as putting in good work at the finish of the Visitors’ Handicap at Methven on Saturday, and should be a better horse next time out.

Glandorc’s recent form does not suggest that he is likely to be favoured for his engagement at the Waikato meeting on Saturday.

Paradigm appears to have been given a great chance of finishing in the money at the Wa’kato meeting, that is, if he reproduces the form he showed at the recent Auckland fixture.

Brook Pointer looks one of the besttreated horses at the Waikato meeting. He has stepped well inside the mark he iff on, and he has previously shown form on the course.

That good mare Mountain Dell, who has won over all distances, is in steady work at Epsom, and she will have her next outing at the Auckland spring meeting.

V ery few are likely to show favour for Logan Chief in' the New Zealand Cup, and it will occasion no surprise if the Logan Pointer pacer does not go to the post.

The Peter Moko mare Joy Ride showed fair form in some of her races last season, finishing in the money on five occasions. She looks well placed in the Introductory Handicap at the Waikato meeting. Captain Wrack is an improved horse since he went into W. J. Tomkinson’s stable, and his second to Arethusa on Saturday was good enough to sugggest that he will develop into a good two-miler. Danny Boy was very unlucky at Methven on Saturday, and had he gone awav right he could not have lost. He has shown great improvement recently, and should soon be a winner.

The champion pacer Prince Pointer, who left the track as sound as a bell, is now standing in the North Otago district, and is already attracting the attention of breeders.

Stowaway has not shown his true form so far this season, but he should be improved by his recent racing. He is one for whom age will do a-lot, and he will

have no difficulty later on in running two-mile races right out. Author Jinks is not being mentioned much in conection with the New Zealand Cup, but the brilliant little Author Dillon pacer cannot be left out of calculations. His new trainer has not very much time to tune him up for the big event, but he comes to hand quickly. John Noble is reported to be striding out well in his work, and he will probably be started at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting and at Oamaru on Labour Day. The John Dillon pacer has shown his beet form in sprint races, hut he will this season be raced over longer journeys.

The imported horse Bon Patch will be at the services of breeders in Palmerston and Waikouaiti districts this season. He has proved himself as a sire, and has left many fast trotters and pacers. Bonny Spec, Boneta, Bonwood, Streak, Kitty Patch, Wattle Patch, Marvin Patch, and Patch Jun. are a few of his successful progeny.

The trotter Hydro, who showed improving form at the back end of last season,, has been nominated tor the two events at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. He will probably find it beyond him to win among the pacers, but the racing should put the polish on him for the Oamaru Club’s Labour Day meeting.

Among the pacers nominated in the two events on the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting is Rafa, who has been more or less of a disappointment. At the Forbury Park summer meeting two seasons ago the grey Brent Locanda gelding was the medium of very heavy support from the stable, but he cut up very badly. Apparently’ he leaves hie speed at home on race days.

The ex-New Zealand pacer Monopole, who has been some time in Sydney, was made the medium of a plunge at Victoria Park (Sydney) a fortnight ago. Jumping out well, Monopole soon had a commanding lead, and at one stage was 10 lengths in front. The race looked a good thing for him then, but over the last furlong Be stopped badly, and All Charm got up to beat him by a length in 3.365, It would take a Philadelphia lawyer to follow the intricacies of the system of automatic handicapping which obtains in Victoria just now, says a Sydney writer. All sorts of concessions and penalties are allowed and imposed, and an owner is supposed to handicap his own horse. If he makes a mistake in handicapping his own horse, honestly or otherwise, he does so at his peril. At the last Richmond (Vic.) meeting three owners were disqualified for a month for allegedly having failed to supply the handicapper with correct handicaps of their horses.

From exchanges to hand it is gathered that the West Australian Trotting Association will hold a four nights’ carnival at Perth at Christmas time, and distribute £5020 in prize money. The outstanding event is the W.A. Trotting Cup, which carries £l6OO, and will be decided in divisions and final. It is to be hoped that entries for the big event are more satisfactory than applied to the Australasian championship last year. It will be re membered that on that occasion the nominations received were considered so unsatisfactory that the championship was abandoned.

A race which creates considerable in terest among trotting enthusiasts in Sydney is the Harold Park Thousand. The event will be decided on Tuesday week and Sydney writers are selecting Walla Walla as the most likely to get the stake Walla Walla is a high-elass pacer, but there is just the chance that he will far to go away from the mark correctly. In the Thousand last year he settled hitprospects at the start. The approaching event will be run in three divisions and a final, and in the 31 acceptors are all the best pacers in Sydney, while Victoria and Tasmania claim one representative each Brentloc, an ex-New Zealander, was entered, but did not make the acceptance. Twenty-seven years ago the committee of the newly-formed New South Wales Trotting Club were short of funds to pav the winners of the £BO programme. They got out of the difficulty by each pooling in £B. The balance sheet presented at the annual general meeting of the club held a few days ago showed a different state of affairs from that exposed in 1903. The club now owns, free from encumbrance Harold Park racecourse, on which upwards of £14,000 was spent in improvements last year. In addition, a sum of £5OOO is held by the Bank of New South Wales on fixed deposit. The total assets of the club are stated to be £55.000., The club paid away £16,440 in stake monev last season, which was £2OOO more than that given during the previous season The club’s transactions showed a profit of £9OO, the amount paid by the Greyhound Coursing Association for lAp so course.

The crowd at the Springfield (Illinois) meeting on August 21 were served up some thrills. This is one of the big attractions of the Grand Circuit, and all the star performers gathered seeking big money and fresh records. May E. Grat ton, who had a record of 2.1, was bar nessed up for the Governor’s Purse, a race worth £6OO. She stepped the first heat to win in 2.1, and the second in scoring a comfortable victory each time Despite the fact that she had already paced two brilliant heats, her driver, Earl Pitman, decided to make an attempt to smash two minutes in the final heat. She did not jump into her straps quickly, but soon got going and then flashed past her opponents to take the lead. She got to the quarter in 30sec, and the half in 1.0. Increasing her pace, she reached the three-quarters in 1.291, and, finishing up her run strongly, got to the end of tile mile in 1,592.