TROTTING ITEMS

Southland Times, Issue 23376, 7 December 1937, Page 10

TROTTING ITEMS

PLUTUS NEARING CUP COMPANY WAIPAHI CONTINUES HIS WINNING WAY Drumbunnif is as solid as any in her class, and this will be in her favour during the holidays. It is a long time since John Desborough stripped as well as he does, and he paced two very sound races at Wairio. Embark, who is a robust customer at any time, appears to have done a good amount of work, and a solid race on Saturday fwill bring him on for holiday racing. Musketeer, who won the chief event at Waikato meeting on Saturday, is a four-year-old gelding by Jewel Pointer and looks like winning his way to good company. He is a member of F. J. Smith’s team.

Mr J. Richardson, of Dunedin, has purchased the imported mare, Real the Great, who is in foal to Quite Sure. Real the Great was got by Caduceus the Great, a son of Peter the Great. The death is reported of Mr J. W. Frizzell, who was a well-known figure in the light-harness sport, and was a prominent owner and breeder of good class racehorses. Aide de Camp, who has won a number of races during the last 12 months, was the best horse he owned in recent years, but another, Tom Thumb, was a good performer. With Mr R. Ward, Mr Frizzell imported from America the trotting stallion Sonoma Harvester.

Naw'.on Parrish, who won at the Waikato meeting on Saturday, is a sprinter of some ability. He was got by Great Parrish, a useful winner in his day who ranks as a half-brother to Great Bingen, Peter Bingen, Worthy Bingen, and others. Nawton Parrish is out of a mare by Great Audubon (a son of Peter the Great) and Great Parrish is out of Berthabell, an imported mare by Peter the Great. Since he won his first race in Southland 12 months ago Waipahi has not looked back and placed to advantage in saddle races he has spreadeagled several useful fields. His sire, Prince Pointer, was one of Logan Pointer’s best sons and before being sold to Australia served several mares in New Zealand. Prince Pointer has been represented by a number of useful winners in the Commonwealth and with Jewel Pointer two have been left to carry on the male line of Logan Pointer. Waipahi won decisively at New Brighton on Saturday, and while he has not as yet had an opportunity to prove himself over two miles, he has given the impression that he is almost certain to take a tight sprint mark. Plutus has now won five races in eight starts this season and after scoring at*New Brighton on Saturday his handicap takes him to a mark approaching the Cup limit. C. S. Donald has always held a high opinion of the Nelson Derby gelding, but he has been very patient with him and his efforts until this season have not been very strenuous. Plutus is out of Fanny Logan, a non-standard bred mare whose name has been included in the Stud Book by reason of the fact that she has produced one 2.10 winner. This was Avemus (a brother to Plutus) who had a record of 3.14 3-5 over a mile and a-half. Their dam, Fanny Logan, was by Logan Pointer from a Prince Imperial mare, and her second and third dams were the thoroughbreds Phaeton and Perkin Warbeck II respectively.

BETTING SYSTEMS NEW BRIGHTON TROTTING RETURNS (By SIR MODRED) The claim that the decreased wagering returns at the recent Forbury Park Trotting Club meeting under single pool betting was caused by the anticipated fall in the price of wool was offset at a Christchurch suburban light harness fixture on Saturday at which win and place wagering was in operation. If the fall in the price of wool affected the trotting wagering in Dunedin, how much more would it be expected to have adverse effects in Canterbury? However, the sum of £27,267 poured through the totalizators at the New Brighton meeting compared with £22,080 at the corresponding fixture of last season, an increase of £5187. It might also be pointed out that Dunedin is a more flourishing industrial centre than Christchurch, with many thousands of workers interested in light harness racing to draw upon to say nothing of support from Southland, Central Otago, North Otago and South Canterbury. Yet the Forbury Park single pool receipts on the second day, when the weather was perfect, dropped considerably. The statement circulated to the effect that the public welcomed the change over to two-dividend speculation in Dunedin has yet to be more amply confirmed than was recently the experience at Forbury Park.