SLOW CLASSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 87, 4 July 1927, Page 6

SLOW CLASSES

NOT WANTED AUSTRALIAN CRITICISI BACK TO BUS-HORSE DATS On a recent programme the J, | South 'Wales Trotting Club place* , i race for hoppled horses to be ha*/ 1 capped on a 2.28 basis, j It is really difficult to surmise can be gained by placing a this description upon the of the leading club of the State, sm* the ’ Sydney Sportsman.’’ If an owner who owns a 2.28 hot* thinks he will have any chance # finishing within coo-ee of the horses in such a race, he must be optimist of the first water. The Victoria Park Club has a n** of this description on its and at a recent meeting the two sions. over a mile and a-quarter. wer* won off the front at better than a Z& gait. At a previous meeting. scrafcek horses won at a 2.20 J, and a 3.26 nft respectively. At the meeting before that it won off scratch at a 2.23 gait. To ask an owner to nominate a horse who can do only 2.28 in one these races on the assurance that h? has a winning chance, would be tantamount to obtaining money under pretences. Hoppled racing lias now reached a stage that makes it derogatory for tb? senior club to cater for 2.28 horses. The Approved Handicap on a 2.15 basis, which is on the same programme, is slow enough for the class of horses now coming forward from 3 :> arke*, Junee, Wellington, Goulburn awl other trotting centres. However, the worst phase of the new race is that £55 has been filched from the £2OO high-class Epping Handicap for 2.20 horses, over two miles to go toward the £7O given t or the two-twenty - eighters. Is it any wonder that our high-claw horses go to other States and New Zealand? GONE WEST GREAT BROOD MARE PASSING OF IVY DEAN Two weeks ago an article was published in the trotting columns of THE SUN giving the history of that great brood mare. Wild Hose, during her sojourn in New Zealand. The best known of her progeny, it was mentioned, was Ivy Dean, by w ildwood, who inherited her dam’s prolific breeding propensities and gave to the trotting turf some exceptionally good performers. IVY DEAN PASSES Word has now been received of the death quite recently of Ivy Dean, who was latterly the property of Mr. T. A. Kilgour, of Otahuhu, having been purchased bv that gentleman at Mr. R. ' Millen's sale in February, 1926. The old mare produced a fine colt foal last vear to Marble Star, and Mr. Kilgour had her mated with the American-bred trotter. The Triumph. Early this month the grand old mare died through slipping the foal, and thus the New Zealand trotting turf is the poorer for the loss. IVY’S OFFSPRING That Wild Rose's stock bred on in wonderful fashion is fully demonstrated in the case of Ivy Dean, w ho produced the following high-class performers:— Aotearoa, 2.1-5, by Mauritius; Granger, 4.35 by Harold Dillon; Dean Dillon, 4.28, by Harold Dillon; Peter Dean (T), 4.33, by Petereta; Ivy Audubon, 2.11, by Great Audubon. PROMISING YOUNGSTERS Ivy Dean has a daughter by Petereta, which never raced on account of meeting with an accident, but should prove invaluable at the breeding business. There is also a filly by St. Kevin that is showing promise, while a daughter of Ivy’s Man o’ War is reported to be a likely sort. The last of the line is the colt foal by Marble Star, and his progress will be watched with interest by those who have closely followed the trend c-f the Wild Rose blood. TROTTING FIXTURES July 21. —Waimate Hunt Annual (cm event). July 23. —South Canterbury Hunt (on« event). NOMINATIONS June 30. —South Canterbury Hunt (on* event). ACCEPTANCES July 12.—Waimate Hunt Annual (one event). July 18.—South Canterbury Hunt (one event).