TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 379, 22 March 1932, Page 10

TROTTING NOTES.

"VrOMI NATIONS for the trotting events at the Oamaru Jockey Club’s meeting will close at eight o’clock to-night. * * * * The Te Aroha Trotting Club will give over £IOOO in prize money for its meeting on April 23. The cup is worth £225. BACK TO FORM. Stanley T. looks as though he is nearly back to his best form. The imported trotter, however, still gives trouble at the barrier and he is now on a mark where he is required to go away right to have any chance. He has had a good deal of barrier practice since last being put into work, but he does not seem to be improving very much in this direction, as he frequently refuses to strike his gait. When properly set for his work, Stanley T. does not look like breaking, but once he goes in the air he loses all chance, as he seems unable to get back to his gait. *** * ' W. J. Tomkinson is not hurrying his two-year-old by Nelson Derby from Poole Pointer, but the young pacer is a regular attendant now at the track and performs useful tasks. She is somewhat on the small side, but paces at an even gait. She is engaged in the Sapling Stakes, to be run at the June meeting of the Ashburton Trotting Club. IN AT lIAWERA. One of the unluckiest pacers to race in Auckland is Prince Pedro. The son of Pedro Pronto, no matter how fast he goes, always meets something just a little better than himself, and he has to be content with consistently getting place money. R. A. entered him for the Hawera meeting, and evidently the Tamahere trainer considers the black gelding will stay, because he is in a 4.-16 two miles and is handicapped on 4.44. The field is not a strong one, and, if taken to the meeting, Prince Pedro may have a winning turn. * * * * F. G. Holmes’s two-year-old by Rev de Oro from Becky Logan, continues to go on the right way in training. The young pacer is not being hurried, but should be well forward and ready to race in the Sapling Stakes f t Ashburton in June. He was bred by Mr J. Westerman, who raced Becky Logan with success. FORRURY PARK The programme for the winter meeting of the Forbury Park Trotting Club, to be held on May 5 and 7, has been issued. The chief two-mile event on each dav is a 4min 32sec class and is worth £275, while the fast sprint race each day is a 2min 47sec mile and a quarter, worth £l5O. The mile and a half trotters’ races are 3min 4Ssec class and the two-mile events are for horses that can do 4min 52sec. There are no saddle events on the programmes, but there are two harness races of a mile, the class being 2min ISsec, while the mile and a half race each day is a 3min 30sec clas*’

If the trotter Audominion continues to improve as he has done during the last month in his training work, he should race well in his next effort. He now appears to be quite sound and he trots much more solidly in his work than formerly. He may require a race or two, however, to bring him to his very best. LIKES THE TRACK. Judged by his work-out at Addington on Saturday, with Red Shadow and Rollo, Ayrmont Chimes’s recent racing has done him a lot of good or else he is more at home on a dirt track. At Wellington the Four Chimes pacer did not shape at all well in either of his races, while the following week he did little better at Timaru. At Addington, however, last Saturday, when racing with Red Shadow and Rollo in a twomile work out, he paced very pleasingly and was staying on in the final stages in good style. JEWEL POINTER. Since coming to Addington, the Auck-land-owned pacer Jewel Pointer, who is now trained by j. J. Kennerley, has done particularly well. Jewel Pointer was foaled in 1921 and as he has been racing since he was a three-year-old, it is surprising how he keeps his form. In sprint and long distance events the little, solidly-built Logan Pointer —Law Chimes pacer continues to race well. He has been through many trainers’ hands. He has been owned in Auckland for a number of years, but he has frequently raced at Addington. COMING ON. Rare Pronto, who is by Pedro Pronto from Rare Bell Direct, and was bred by her owner, J. J. Kennerley, is showing further improvement in her training work. Rare Pronto is not yet thoroughly reliable in her gait in a race and frequently breaks for no apparent reason. She is a very smart beginner and in training work never looks like putting a foot wrong. Her trainer is of opinion that she mixes her gait through fright at some object on the race track. Possibly more racing will give her confidence and she may then go evenly throughout. On the first day of the January meeting at Forbury Park she paced a brilliant race in the Southland Handicap, of a mile and a half, covering the distance in 3min 22 4-ssec and paying a good dividend. Her sire, Pedro Pronto, was a brilliant pacer over all distances and one of the fastest of beginners, whilst her dam was a useful sprinter, who won races for Kennerley. TROTTING FIXTURES. March 26. 28—Hawera T.C. March 26—Greymouth J.C. March 26, 28—Beaumont R.C. March 26, 30—N.Z.M.T.C. March 28—Kumara R.C. March 29—Riverton R.C. March 3.0 —Westland R.C.