DONALD DHU’S SUCCESS

Southland Times, Issue 23945, 11 October 1939, Page 10

DONALD DHU’S SUCCESS

OUR GLOBE’S N.Z. CUP

MARK

GREAT DON SHOULD WIN IN BETTER COMPANY

A payment for the New Zealand Trotting Cup is due tomorrow. Handicaps for the Oamaru Trotting Club’s meeting are due tomorrow. Nominations for the Invercargill Trotting Club’s meeting will close on Friday.

Nominations for all events for the New Zealand Cup meeting are due next Tuesday.

Blair Athol

Blair Athol’s placing on Saturday would suggest that he is right back to his best. He is a fancied candidate for the New Zealand Cup, and his form over the last 12 months gives him a good chance. Smart Sprinter Windsor Lass continues to beat the best sprinters in the country and she is now on a mark where she is opposed to New Zealand Cup horses in sprint events. Her two-mile assessment is, however, much slower. Back To Form Subsidy, who beat a mile saddle field on Saturday, has been off the winning list for some time and as he ran the journey in 2.10 he is right back to his best. The Rey de Oro gelding won the Great Northern Derby Stakes in 1934. The Cup Favourite M. C. McTigue at one stage had three New Zealand Cup candidates in work, but Fine Art will now be his sole representative. The stable will still provide the favourite as Fine Art is almost certain to hold his position. Bright Future Great Don is credited with having won over one mile ■ and a-half very easily at New Brighton on Saturday in 3min 17 4-ssec. A • high opinion has always been held of the Great Bingen gelding and he looks. like winning his way to select company. . ..

Went Off Pacing Dark Hazard, was., one of the favourites for the Centenary Handicap at New Brighton on Saturday but.he went off at a pace and. did not afterwards settle down. It was-his first race as a square trotter for more than two years, and' it was surprising to find him so well fancied. Three-Year-Olds

Durability was the. only one of the three-year-olds to finish in a place in the New Brighton Challenge- Stakes to claim an engagement in the New Zealand Derby Stakes at Addington next month. Saturday’s race’ was run in slow time and if some of the three-year-olds at present racing do not improve, this year’s Derby should not be a hard race to win.

Challenge Stakes Winner Three Tens, who won the New Brighton Stakes on Saturday, was got by Jack Potts from Lady Effie, the dam of Effie Parrish. Lady Effie was got by Matchlight from Eugenia (the dam of Fisher), by Logan Pointer from Koromiko, by Galindo from Manuka, by Wildwood. This is a line which has produced mapy good winners and one which suggests that Three Tens may inherit stamina to see out a stayers' distance. Three Tens races in the colours of his breeder, Mr E. F. C. Hinds, of Harold Logan fame. Donald Dhu

When nominations were taken for the New Zealand Trotting Cup a short time back Donald Dhu’s entry was declared ineligible. His success at New Brighton on Saturday would qualify him for the Cup race, but as he had not taken a 4.27 two-mile mark when entries were called, he will still be ineligible. , Donald Dhu has always proved himself a fine stayer and while he will not be given a chance to contest the Cup race he will be an interesting runner in other important events at the meeting. He is a half-brother by Man o’ War to Girvan, who won the Winton Trotting Cup a few years back.

Our Globe’s Position The mark of Our Globe, who has been entered for the New Zealand Cup, is causing some discussion as it is believed in, some quarters that he will be giving away several seconds to be in the race. If this is so there should be little difficulty about Oui Globe’s position. The limit is a 4:25 one with horses on 4.27 invited and if Our Globe’s present assessment is outside the 4.27 mark then he will not be eligible. This case applied to Donald Dhu who was on a 4.28 mark when nominated for the Cup and his entry was not accepted as it did not comply with the conditions of the race. Our Globe will have to be treated in similar fashion to Donald Dhu if he has not taken a 4.27 mark. A New Record A new -world’s record for trotting teams was established in America on August 31, when those two great trotting champions Greyhound and Rosalaing, hitched to a pole cart, trotted a mile in lmin 59sec to replace 2min 3 l-ssec which Uhlan and Lewis Forrest put up at Lexington in 1912. The pair were hitched together on August 30 foi the first time, but were only jogged slowly. On the following day they were warmed up singly and not hitched together until brought out for the trial. They ran the first quarter in 31Jsec, the half-mile 59sec, and then trotted the last two furlongs in 28Asec to create the new record.