THE TROTTING TRACK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8672, 12 July 1906, Page 4

THE TROTTING TRACK.

NOTES ON HORSE AND SULKY (By THE POSSIBLE.) The trotting stallion Laudeirdale has been shipped to Melbourne from Dunedin. Mr L. Wilson., who returned last week from a visit to Australia, brought a maiden, trotter back with him. Thurlow won a race at Aspendale Park, near Melbourne, last month, covering the mile and a half in 3min 38eec. Attention was drawn, at tjhe annual meeting of the Plnmpton Park Trotting Club, to the insufficient tobalisator accommodation. It was stated that tii© matter was likely to be remedied at an early date I learn that Mr E. Clarkson does not intend to offer himself for nomination as a member of the New Zealand Trotting Association at the approaching election. Mr Clarkson finds that the time at which the meetings are held does not fit in. with his business arrangements. / The Dunedin correspondent of. this paper writes:— Since the Tahuna Park Trotting Club closed it« gates to the bookmakers and alleged bookmakers a number of persons have been in the habit of viewing the club's meetings from beyoaid the pale as composed by the boundary fences. Several of these so nea.r and yet so far pairticipants in the great game were prosecuted last week for betting in a place,- the place consisting of boxes or tins. After heaTing a portion of the evidence the oases were adjourned. For several years past the members of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, at each annual meeting, have recommended the committee to pay out totalisatoir dividends to sixpence. No notice has ever been taken of the recommendation, and this may have had something to do with the, fact that at last week's -meeting th<» proposal wae lost. . Another phase of' the totalisator question wae raised later in the meeting, when a motion recommending tfhe committee to set aside the totalisator fractions for the purchase of a totalisator for the club was carried. The following sales and leases of horses were reported to the New Zealand Trotting Association between June 6 and July 4 :— Blacklock, W. G. Chisna.ll, Blenheim, to Mrs C. Berry, Blenheim; Del Can©, Martin Boyle, Heddin Bush, to — . Thomas, Inveroargill : Eko, A. dough; Little River, to Q. C. Manson. Teddington ; Gory Lass, W. T "Woods, Mount Smart, to Br Murphy, Auckland; Hullo, W. E. Thomas, Greymouth. to. Clive Kettle, Greymouth ; Janitor, Mrs C. Berry, Blenheim to W- G. Ohisnall. Blenheim; Jim. 'Alexander Gardiner. Mataura, to John Reid, Naseby; Kaffir Boy, Arthur Mumford, Dallington, to W. Havwatrd and Co., Christchurch ; Lady Berlin, David D. Seaton, Portobello, to Jackson Muniro, Dunedin ; Lady Rot-hsoluld 11. R. G. Hudson, Dunedin, to W. A. Scott, Epsom; Mawbera, Thoimas Fraser, Greymouth, io John Newton, Hokitika; Mutiny, M. Mahea:, Blen^ heim, to H. Caroy, Birchfield ; Theora, John Ridhardso-n, Alexandra South, to Edwa-rd Marslin (half share); Underwood, ' John Han-na, Sefton, to Frank Fuller, Sefton (lease expired) ; Va-nfoirth, Austin Read, Lin/wood, to A. Roffßtski, Mnn?ihland. "Rothschild" writes ' in the "Sydney Mail " -as follows : — Trotting men have been much exercised in their minds as to the identity of a chestnut pacing filly which has been jogging on the Randwick Road in a style of pneumatic 6ulky new to Sydney. The chestnut is the celebrated Sal Tasker, who as a two-year-old last year, in New Zealand, won a- race in 2min 20sec. D. JV Prioe^-who,^ now in Sydney with a /■■■ "■■" --r.t--:' •■Tv 4-LsiuA~--i.i±2 .'• i .: ■

team of New Zealand gallopers, brought the paoer over with ' hiin to winter in the more salubrious climate " of New South Wales, but eh© is not likely to be seen, on our trotting tracks, as ehe will probably be reserved for the big New Zealand fixture to oome off in New Zealand at the end of tße year. Sal Tasker, who is by the great New Zealand sire Rothschild, a son of Ohiide Harold, is a raking filly, standing about an inch short of sixteen hands, of great length and rein, and has the carriage peculiar to a pacer, which enables a trotting man to tell the gait a quarter of a mile away. As a two-year-old, her 2min 2Gseo was e long way ahead of anything yet produced in Australasia, and with a little more age she may reasonably be expected to knock off a bit from Ribbonwood'e record of 2min 9sec. It looks very much as if Australasia is now within measurable distance of taking its place against the world's best in breeding trotting horses. America gets great prices for its trotting stock from Russia and Austria, and shortly Australian trotters will be as well known the world over as Australian ." walers." What is required is a track on the latest Americai lines, which would enable the cracks to show off their paces to the best advantage! Myosotis, a four-year-old mare by Huon, the horse pr G. M. Slate, unported from America some twenty years ago, has been . showing some great performances in New Zealand. She w<m. a race in 2min 15seo, the fastest time ever put up in' a race in New Zealand, and & couple of weeks later paced an exhibition mile against time in 2min 16 l-ssec. That this mare \will also beat Ribbonwood's record, should all go well with her, looks a certainty.