LUCKY JACK’S EFFORT

Southland Times, Issue 23998, 13 December 1939, Page 10

LUCKY JACK’S EFFORT

FINE ART’S GOOD RECOVERY JOSEDALE GRATTAN’S NEXT START Accepances for the Gore meeting close tomorrow. Acceptances for the Winton meeting close next .Wednesday. Recovered Fine Art has evidently recovered from the injury which prevented him from racing at New Brighton as he has been entered for the Ashburton meeting. Qualified Josedale Grattan’s win at Claudelands on Saturday will make him eligible for the Auckland Trotting Cup. The limit for this race is 4.31, but horses assessed on 4.32 will be accepted.

To Attempt Record The record which Lucky Jack is to assail at Washdyke on Saturday is Van Derby’s unofficial New Zealand grass track record of 2min 2 2-ssec. It was hoped that he would be assisted in his task by Parisienne, who could have given him the run he gave, to Lawn Derby at Addington, but the champion mare is not at the moment ready for the assignment. The pacemaker will probbaly be handled by R. Townley. Made a Track Record • The Auckland-bred ' trotter Golden Eagle, which has joined her fullbrother, Great Admiral, in Perth, was narrowly beaten in the Trotters’ Handicap at the Fremantle meeting last week by Wee Warrah, but in registering 2.15 J for a mile Golden Eagle made a trotting record for the Fremantle track. The West Australian mile trotting record is 2.15} held by Quick March, who made the figures at Gloucester Park, where Great Admiral recently established a trotting record for 13 furlongs. Nervie’s Last Messrs E. G. and F. A. Bridgens, owners of the free-legged pacer Nervie’s Last, have decided to send the gelding to Perth to contest the InterDominion championship events in February. Nervie’s Last will be shipped to Sydney after the Auckland meeting

in company with Lawn Derby and Springfield Globe, who will be returning home. On arrival in Australia, Nervie’s Last will go into the stable of G. Gath, who visited New Zealand a few seasons ago. Gath will give the Auckland-owned pacer his final preparation and drive him in his engagements. So far Icevus is the only other New Zealand-trained pacer definitely booked for the trip.

Lucky Jack’s Effort Not nearly enough credit has been given to Lucky Jack for his effort in the match with Lawn Derby, comments The Timaru Herald. The winner’s time of 2min lsec has very rightly been extolled, but Lucky Jack stepped 2min 1 l-ssec and made his own pace. Had the positions in the running been reversed, it is pretty certain that the result would have been < different. It has been suggested that' Lawn Derby was better driven, but the desire of Lucky Jack’s owner to tune him up for this class of racing, with the idea of getting a fast time against his name and giving him a further advertisement as a stallion. It can be accepted as certain that if conditions are good and Lucky Jack is fit on Saturday, the Trotting Cup winner will be asked to do his best, and two minutes is not beyond the bounds of possibility.