TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 456, 18 May 1932, Page 10

TROTTING NOTES.

DOMINATIONS for the trotting ' LI events at the Greymouth Jockey Club’s meeting on Friday, June 3, close at 9 p.m. on Saturday. s|c sis sjs Sk Nominations for the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting, to be held on June 3 and 4, will close at noon tomorrow. * * * * Major Lind started twice at Oamaru last week, and in each of his races he was prominent in the early stages, but tailed off at the end. The imported pacer is not at his best just now, judged by his latest efforts. * * * Quality, who is by Denver Huon from Lady Superior, _ dam of Cardinal Logan, Bankhead, Richore and Monopole, has a good-looking foal to the imported stallion. Jack Potts. * * * * Grandlight, who is now in the same stable as Harold Logan, started in the President’s Handicap at Oamaru, but the Matchlight gelding did not show up prominently. He has been unsound for some time past, but he appeared to be all right in this race. * * * St Felix, a three-year-old by Wrack from Latona, has been backed on more than one occasion, but has not raced well. In the Advance Handicap at Oamaru last week he was third favourite, but he paced without much resolution and never was dangerous. He is a pacer who, in the meantime, does not give his best in a race. AGAIN IN WORK. C. S. Donald has put that fine pacer, Sir Author, in work again. He is by Author Dillon from Millie C., the dam of Acron, and he has shown himself capable of good performances over all distances, despite his unsoundness. He has been laid aside for gome time, but is now apparently fairly sound again. It is to be hoped he will stand a preparation. TRACK SUITED. Te Kinga, who recently went into J. Young’s stable, paced*a fine race in the Advance Handicap at Oamaru last week. He was one of the quickest to begin and eventually stayed on well enough to get second. Te Kinga, who is by Nelson Bingen from the American mare, Princess Ann, was a very promising two-year-old, but he continued to go sore and has done little racing. His dam had a lot of speed but was most unreliable. The track at Oamaru seemed to suit Te Kinga. NARROW ESCAPE. The Oamaru trainer, J. M’Lennan, had a very narrow escape from serious injury on the day prior to the Oamaru meeting last week. He was driving the pacer Tarndale in a trap and had just pulled to the side of the main road, to allow a motor-car to pass, when another car came along and crashed into the trap, which was badly damaged. The Oamaru trainer escaped with severe bruises, but two others in the trap were more seriously injured. WHY HE FAILED.

Milo Minto showed up well in the fast-run James Memorial Handicap, of two miles, at the recent Forbury Park meeting, %vhich was won by Rollo in 4min 20sec, and on that showing he received solid support in the President’s Handicap at Oamaru, starting second favourite. He made a capital beginning, and was well placed half a mile from home. Over the final part of the race Milo Minto faded out completely. Soon after going into O. E. Hooper's stable he contracted strangles and was laid aside for a lengthy period, but he subsequently got right and put up some good performances. The track and weather conditions were not favourable to horses under suspicion in the wind as the result of strangles, and this probably accounted for Milo Minto’s indifferent display compared with his showing the previous week. WRACKLER AS TROTTER. When Wrackler raced as a trotter in the Sumner Handicap, at the Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Easter meeting, he put up a capital performance, finishing second to White Satin and covering the mile and in 3min 21 2-ssec. In the following race he started as a pacer. Last week, at Oamaru, Wrackler was on the limit of the President’s Handicap, the class being 4min 32sec. He was quickly into his gait and followed Major Lind in the early stages. Keeping to his gait, he held his own for some distance and then gradually dropped back. Wrackler is such a fine stayer that his effort over the final mile in his last race is hard to understand, unless the somewhat heavy track stopped him. Several of Wrack’s progeny go at both gaits and it may take Wrackler some races before he is seen at his best as a trotter, although his initial effort was a good one. TROTTING FIXTURES. May 21—Ashburton C.R.C. May 21—Otautau R.C. May 28—South Canterbury J.C. June 3, 4—Canterbury Park T.C. June 3, 4—Hawke’s Bay T.OJune 3—Greymouth J.C. June 4—Reefton J.C.