TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 301, 19 December 1931, Page 13

TROTTING NOTES.

Deste is good enough to win one of the saddle races at the southern holiday meetings.

At the last meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Association, the death was reported of Kiltess, the dam of John Noble and Black Watch.

Molly Desborough will be unlucky if she goes through the holidays without winning. She ran a very promising race at the recent Forbury Park meeting, and she has gone on the right way since then.

Nelson s Fortune should step his way out of trial company before the holidays are oyer. He is a very promising young pacer.

Sunny Morn was never better than he is at present, and the little Sungod gelding should get a stake during the holidays.

The Central-trained Wehr Bingen is reported to be in capital condition for his southern engagements. There is not much of the Nelson Bingen gelding, but he is speedy and stays well.

The big pacer Don Giovanni, by Author Dillon from Nordica, started only once last season. He has a lot of speed, but is inclined to hit his knees on a small track. As he has shown that he can trot, N. L. Price has decided to work him for a time at that gait. Not many of Author Dillon’s progeny trot well, but N. L. Price is a past master with trotters, and he may make a success of Don Giovanni.

In the meantime, the pacer Happy Land appears to have lost form and he is not racing at all well. Happy Land started on twenty-two occasions last season, winning five races and he looked as though he would soon be in the best company. He started in the Wainoni Handicap, of a mile and a quarter, at New Brighton, but was never prominent.

The Forbury Park Trotting Club has decided to alter the classes in the Musselburgh and Gore Handicaps at summer meeting to 3.33. The class for the chief event each day will be 4.28. WRACKLER’S PROSPECTS.

Handicapped on 84yds, Wrackler, good pacer though he is, cannot be given other than a starter’s chance in the Auckland Cup. His mark is 4.23, and as there are horses on, or near the limit, who can be depended upon to go a bit better than their handicaps, Wrackler would have to put up a wonderful effort to win. His chance may come on the second day, in the Champion Handicap, the fast mile and a quarter, but even in this race the brilliant son of Wrack will meet some brilliant opponents. With Wrackler, Peter Bingen, Jewel Pointer and others in the field the race should provide a great contest. f-v

Among those engaged on the southern circuit during the holidays is Red King, a more than useful four-year-old, by Four Chimes from Red Empress. He contested two races last season, winning one of them and finishing second in the other. * * * * NEARER THE FRONT. two trotters doing nicely in their work at Alexandra Park are Carl Mack and Parrish Belle, and both should race prominently at the Cup meeting. On the opening day they are well back in the mile and a half trot, and have been set a hard task to win. On the second and third days the distance of the slow class trot is two miles and the limit 4.52. This will find Carl Mack and Parrish Belle much nearer the limit than on the first day, and it will then take a good one to beat them. Opinions differ as to the better of the pair, but though Carl Mack may not be so reliable as Parrish Belle he may prove the better stayer. KREISLER’S PROSPECT. The West Coast-owned pacer, Kreisler, is now trained by C. S. Donald at Belfast. He showed a partial return to his best form when he raced at New Brighton last week, and the Great Audubon horse may win a race shortly. Kreisler seems to be a very difficult pacer to get to his best, and rarely retains his form for any period. He led the field for nearly a mile and a half in the Mace Memorial Handicap. BETTER IN PRIVATE. Aristotle raced much better at the last New Brighton meeting than he did at Forbury Park a fortnight earlier, but his race efforts are a long way below his track form. The Guy Parrish pacer is a most attractive track worker, putting plenty of dash into it. With the colours up he seems to shirk his task when hard put to it. His dam, Penelope, is also the dam of Avenger, another pacer who is very inconsistent in his races. Aristotle is only four years old and he may do better with age. GREYM OUT f I EVE NT. On the first day of the Greymouth Trotting Club’s meeting the programme includes the High-class Handicap, a mile and a half event for trotters, class 3min 27sec. Amongst the nominations is Lady Headford, who is on the limit. She is a sister to New Metford, and has not yet started, so it appears as though N. L. Price, her trainer, could not have noticed the class of the race when nominating the young trotter. She is also engaged on the same day in the Express Handicap, twelve furlongs and a half, the class being 3min 49sec for a mile and a half. Lady Headford is on the limit in this event, which is a 22sec slower class than the other race.