TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 471, 4 June 1932, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

si®®® saw®®®®®®®®®®® ACCEPTANCES for the Ashburton Trotting Club’s meeting will close at eight o’clock on Tuesday night. * * SR 1 * Nominations for the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting will close next Friday. H« * *• * Yearling nominations for the Great Northern Trotting Derby of 1933 will close on Friday. * * * sf: In connection with the Ashburton Trotting Club’s meeting next Saturday, a special train will leave Christchurch at 9.15 a.m. and will arrive at the course at 10.52 a.m. The return train will leave at 4.40 p.m., and is due in Christchurch at 6.15 p.m. A horse train will leave Christchurch at 7.30 a.m., stopping to lift horses at Addington, Sockburn, Templeton. Rolleston and Dunsandel. The return train will leave at 5 p.m. The horse train has been scheduled at express speed, and if owners load their horses promptly a fast run should result. The unloading and reloading of horses at the racecourse siding is an added convenience. IMPROVING TROTTER. Modern Girl continued to show improvement by accounting for the Progressive Handicap, the opening event at Addington yesterday, after leading throughout. She won on each day of the Forbury Park meeting, early last month, but did not race well at Oamaru a week later. W. J. Tomkinson has worked a great improvement in the Dunedin-owned trotter, who always had speed but did not control it properly. She now begins well. She was bred in Dunedin and is by Guy Parrish from that good mare Swift, who has produced a number of smart trotters, including Peter Swift, Swiftest, Swiftwood and Swiftbine. * * H* * L. F. Berkett has made a great improvement in Todd Bingen, who was second to Modern Girl in the Progressive Handicap. When he raced here, before going into his present quarters, he had a good deal of speed, but would not trot solidly. The Nelson trainer has raced him all over the Dominion and Todd Bingen, who is held on lease, has come on very fast. But for a bad break half a mile from heme, he might have further extended the winner. A SMART PACER. Since Symmetry was leased by E. C. M’Dermott she has improved very much and her latest success, in the Harewood Handicap, demonstrated that she is one of the best racing in her class. She is by Great Audubon from Sympathy, the dam of that good pacer, Hinkler, who is now in Australia. Symmetry did not look to possess much chance three furlongs from home, as she wa’s boxed in on the rails, but pulling hard. An opening came in the straight and this gave her the victory. * sfc sH Aristotle gave further evidence of his improvement by finishing second to Symmetry in the Harewood Handicap. He was somewhat slow to get away, but he put in a fine last mile. He has been racing unluckily of late. ROLLO IN FORM.

Rollo followed up his success in the James Memorial Handicap, at the last Forbury Park meeting, by winning the King George Handicap, in 4.20. the same time as he accomplished in the south. When he won at Dunedin he made a bad beginning, but in the King George Handicap he went away in great style and had to be kept back to his field in the early stages. He was a long way back with a round to go and even a quarter of a mile from home he had a lot of ground to make up, but his great stamina gave him the victory. No pacer in the Dominion has won two races of two miles in such fast time in succession. Rollo, who is a big, heavily built pacer, by Jingle, is a wonderful stayer and his only defect is his occasional inability to begin well. * * * * Impromptu finished second to Rollo at Forbury Park and went 4.22 3-5. He had to put up with the same position in the King George Handicap, in which he went 4min 23 l-ssec. The Pedro Pronto pacer, although not always racing solidly, has of late been more consistent, and had J. S. Shaw made a little more use of him rounding the turn into the straight, Rollo would have had to go faster. VERY SOLID. Biddy Parrish, as usual, went away slowly in the Elevation Handicap and lost a lot of her advantage. Once she hit her gait she trotted very fast and she was in third position at the end of half a mile. Here Tomkinson pulled her behind and trgtting solidly she fought out a great finish with Great Way, just winning. She has not raced for some time but she has been doing well in her training work. She is by Guy Parrish from that good trotter Rose Peters and is one of the most improving trotters now racing. It was the second success of the Addington trainer with a trotter for the day, as he won earlier with Modern Girl. * * H« * Great Way was on his best behaviour in the Elevation Handicap, in which he finished second to Biddy Parrish. Making a smart beginning, the Peterwah trotter went throughout the race without a mistake. With a round to go he was just in front of Biddy Parrish and had C. S. Donald made more use of him along the back it would have been more difficult for the Addington trained mare. * H« :*e It was a great pity that Todd Lonzia broke early in the Elevation Handicap. He trotted so well at Forbury Park that he promised to be very hard to beat in this race. SMART SOUTHLAND PACER. Sunny Morn, who was purchased by his present owner at the last Forbury Park meeting, early in May, quick13'- returned his purchase money by his success in ’the Pioneer Handicap, in which he started favourite. The Sungod pacer went out well and in the final 'stages he had the opposition well beaten. He put up a track record at the Wyndham meeting and he is a pacer likely to do even better on the good tracks on which he will do his future racing. In addition to great speed he possesses plenty of stamina. * * * Editor, who has not been very long in work, showed by finishing second to Sunny Morn, that he is back to his best form. He was on 4min 36sec for two miles and went 4min 23 4-ssec. The Author Dillon pacer has improved so fast since last he was put into work, that he should do even better in his future races.

The Nelson trained pacer, Travis, after a smart beginning in the Pioneer Handicap, lost his place. Over the last half mile he travelled at a fast clip, which carried him into third place. * * * * Cranleigh, who won the Advance Handicap, has been racing well over all distances this season. He was not prominent in the early part of the race, but going down the back he improved his position and came on fast in the last quarter. The Travis Axworthy pacer had a very easy victory at the end, as he appeared to possess a lot more stamina than the rest of the field. * * * * Gold Country, who was favourite for the Advance Handicaap, was not very fast away, but he made a brilliant run at the end of six furlongs and was in front before the straight was reached. He failed to see out the final halffurlong and ended up in third place. H« * * * Nimble Direct, one of the outsiders of the field in the Advance Handicap, came on the scene very late. It was only in the last quarter that he was seen and rounding the turn into the straight he was in fourth place. this point the Australian pacer showed a lot of speed and he snatched second place in the last stride. CAN SPRINT AND STAY. Roddy had a very easy victory in the Telegraph Handicap. It is not often that a mile harness event is won in such hollow fashion. The ex-South Canterbury-trained pacer has been racing over longer distances in the past and few realised that he possessed so much speed. With a smart beginning he was well placed early and over the last half of the journe3 r he outstayed the opposition. He is by Rey de Oro from Franzalena, who was a very fast mare in her racing da>-s. * * Hi * Dusolina, who is by Drusus from that good mare, Doraldina, went a fine race in the Telegraph Handicap. Owing to the absence of her trainer, H. Frost, who has a team racing in the North Island, she was driven by his brother, L. Frost, and she was very unlucky in going so fast without success. * * t * Gold Tinge was made favourite for the Telegraph Handicap, but the speed proved too much for the Southlander, who failed to run on at the finish, after making a good beginning. Hi * Hs Some Guy, who was fourth favourite for the Au Revoir Handicap, made a smart beginning and followed Bingen Patch till they reached the straight, when he headed the early leader and won decisively. Some Guy has not been in work very long, but he has come to hand ver3” quickly. He is trained at New Brighten by L. Frost, who rode him in the fastest mile performance he has >*et accomplished. Some Guy is by Real Guy from Cammie, a sister to Prince Pointer, and though a smart pacer over sprint courses, he does not stay well.

Our Bird, who was second to Some Guy in the Au Revoir Handicap, is trained at New Brighton, like the winner. He is a smart sprinter, who is seen at his best in saddle events. Our Bird is never likely to race well over a long journey. H« He He * John Jinks, who has not been Tong in M. B. Edwards’s stable, was a hot favourite for the Au Revoir Handicap, but a slow beginning settled any chanch he may have possessed.