TROTTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 842, 10 December 1929, Page 13

TROTTING

By ABATDOS Square Trotters For Auckland Fixture THE MODERATES an improving section In catering for the square-gaited fraternity at its Christmas fixture t he Auckland Trotting Club has not neglected the improving brigade, and a good race each day colour* the card for this section. The response from owners shows that the club’s action is appreciated, and a class of trotter will be seen out in this department that promise* to provide interesting content*. Tha field handicapped for the Introductory Trot contains several that have shown good form recently, and a l„ 0 hinted that in the near future they would display further improvement. Apart from likely local representatives the names of some good improvers from other centres are included in the list. Off the Front Paradigm lias proved a consistent uotter this season, and while he is n ow reaching a class where it is more difficult to capture a stake, the Childe vudubon gelding will make his rivals lo their very best to head him off. Togo’s Promise showed encouraging form us a stayer in his last start at Kpsom, and the ex-pacer can be looked l 0 for further improvement in the near future. Off the front of the

moderate trotters’ heats, the son of llibbonwood will take a power of beatinß - In some quarters Marble Star is regarded as a non-stayer, and for this reason is not taken seriously in twomile events. But R. Millen’s trotter is suctt a fine exponent of the art over a middle journey, he cannot fa il to prove a stumbling block to the opposition off the end of a 4.50 two-mile dags. * * * Wild Nut has not won a race for some time now, but if ever the Nut Ansel sqnare-gaiter is going to pull «ne off he is given a rare chance at Christmas, when he will race from the limit of the Handicap. With Lee has not so far fulfilled the promise he hinted at when he captured a double at Hastings last June for R. Fisken. However, there Is plenty of time for Peterwah’s son to make amends, and he will be given every opportunity to do so under W. Tomkinson’s care. m * 0 Last autumn old Direct Action put up some sound performances over two miles, and on more than one occasion he was unlucky in not gaining the first, instead of the second, ticket. If Fred Gilchrist gets the Don Pronto trotter back to concert pitch he will add interest to the Christmas racing. * * * A Useful Trio Tamakino is a '‘form’* trotter, and what is more there is every indication that she will before long prove a lass” one, too. Last season the N’elson Bingen mare started five times for three firsts and a third, while this year her record to date is two wins and a third in three attempts. • * * The aristocratically-bred Unnett the Great won well at Kpsom in October over a 12-furlong course, and finished on so stoutly that she must be considered seriously In a longer journey

p vent. p, s. Smith has the mare looknice and healthy, and she should 'trip in rare trim at the forthcoming meeting. • * * I has been so consistent durn £ the present season that he is sure '0 give a lot of cheek when stepped , a ßain in company. There is n ’lapiaoii that the Petereta gelding does mn see out the bitter end of a twoI ,e p°* but he may catch a day when * will go right on with the business. * * * Some Solid Ones in. has been more or less a **Polm«nent since he spread eaglet! fi«ld in the Introductory Trot t 'P sorn last December, and paid a jumping dividend. The son of Gold tV« now receiving attention from ' ar *d once ho strikes form, the jjjbotftioii will soon wake up to the i* • • * of k! mar ' teat Easter, pave a taste T a . 18 abilities as a trotter on the on circuit. At Hawera on the aLu * <*ay ran Ktta Cole to a ’, an, l next time out he won d©Plvif y frorß a 4 49 mark. At: New tvaJ n ? l,th the Nelson Bingen trotter u ‘ n a slow class heat, and from If (4.48) ran a good third. h - this month he will have a a t Epsom. w * • * froiri er ‘ tlie Converte d trotter, is one ar -j whom big things are expected, st . while he has not yet captured a at the square gait, has shaped not v ently well to suggest that it will m '. v *ry long before he tenders the * lb the box u salutation.