TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

for the Nelson Trotting Club’s annual meeting will close on Monday, at 8 p.m. * * * * E% t ies for the New Zealand Metropolian Trotting Club’s February meeting will close on January 19, at noon. H< * sjc * Acceptances for the Timaru Trotting Club’s summer meeting are due on Monday, at 9 p.m. *He * H« Nominations for the Nelson Trotting Club’s annual meeting will close on Mohday, at 8 p.m. * * * * Entries for the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s February meeting will close on January 19 at noon. * * * He Acceptances for the Timaru Trotting Club’s summer meeting are due on Monday at 9 p.m. * * * * In connection with the Timaru Trotting Club’s summer meeting, a special horse train will leave Christchurch for Timaru at 6.30 a.m. on Saturday, January 21, picking up horses at Sockburn, Templeton, Dunsandel, Rakaia and Ashburton. The train will run to the racecourse platform, and the return journey will start from the racecourse platform. For the return journey horses must be loaded by 6 p.m. * He * * One of the most attractive pacers in Western Australia is Desert Bells, who has run in 111 races for 15 wins. Recently in a match against a cyclist he ran 2ftiin Bisec for a flying mile. NOW A TROTTER. Radley is back at the trotting gait. He changes over from one gait to the other without any inconvenience; in fact, he wears three-ounce shoes in front whether he goes at the trotting or at the pacing gait. He H« He He J. D. Smith has made another start on the promising three-year-old Golden Cross, who has been gelded and spelled since he showed good form early in the season. * He He * L. Frost is getting along nicely with the trotting gelding New Metford. The son of Rey de Oro and a Blackchild mare is now owned by Mr F. H. M’Donald, and went a good race to finish third in the Hornby Handicap at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s recent meeting. Under the supervision of L. Frost, New Metford is likely to win a race or two. * H« * ★ Dusolina is enjoying a short holiday prior to being got ready for autumn racing. She is a brilliant mare, and is in exceptional health. MAKING A GOOD RECOVERY. The pacing mare Location is making a pleasing recovery from the infirmity that bothered her during November and December. The blister that was applied a few weeks ago has had a beneficial effect, and she will resume work in due course. * * * * King’s Voyage is retaining his form, and is being given judicious essays at Addington, so that he will be ready to take part at meetings where the classes are suitable. He He He Hr E. C. M’Dermott has made a start on Arohanui. She is by Guy Fawkes from Lovebird. Arohanui started four times last season, and registered a second at the New Brighton Trotting Club’s meeting in October, 1931. AFTER THE HOLIDAY. The pacing gelding Peter Junior has built up in an appreciable manner since he won a race at the Greymouth Trotting Club’s meeting in October, and is again undergoing a preparation by J. J. Kennerley at Addington. He He -He He Of the maiden trotters seen in action at Epsom during the recent meeting, only three, Nelson Pirate, Kohewah and Golden Eagle, showed up in an attractive light. Nelson Pirate, having his second public run, won the Selby Handicap in 3min 41 l-ssec, and he confirmed the form when he went 3min 37sec to finish second to Win Huon in the Oak Handicap. Nelson Pirate is a halfbrother to Waikaha, and looks like being really good. ADDINGTON NEXT.

The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has issued its programme for its February meeting, to be held on Saturday, February 4. The chief handicap event is the Midsummer Handicap, of 400 sovs, for horses assessed at 4min 29sec or better. The Linwood Handicap is for horses that are assessed at 2min 46sec, one mile and a quarter. The principal contest of the day is the International Champion Trotters’ match as arranged by the club for a purse of 200 sovs to go to the winner, flying start, one mile and a half. The Papanui Handicap, of 200 sovs, is a 4min 35sec class, and the Cashmere Handicap, for unhoppled trotters, is a 4min 40sec class. There is a special race for three-year-olds with a limit of 3min, one mile and a quarter. The stake is 200 sovs. The Liverpool Handicap, of 200 sovs. is a 4min 40sec class, and the Craven Handicap, of 200 sovs, is for horses assessed at 2min 43sec, one mile and a quarter. The Spreydon Handicap is for unhoppled trotters assessed at 3min 32sec or better. Assessed means, for the purpose of this programme, the horse’s assessed mark at the time of handicaps. Nominations will close on Thursday, January 19, at noon. WALLA WALLA. It is not often now that the Sydney champion, Walla Walla, is stripped for racing, but. L. S. Martin took him to Goulburn for the New Year’s meeting, and the champion easily accounted for the Goulburn Cup, states a Sydney journal. On the first day of the meeting, Walla Walla was off 96 yards behind in the Flying Handicap run over nine furlongs, but it was obvious that he was not fancied off this mark, for he was at a long price and finished about four lengths behind the winner, Steelwood, who, off the front, ran the nine furlongs in 2min 37isec, the equivalent of a 2min 20sec gait. On the second day, however, Walla Walla was off the .same mark in the Cup, run over a mile and a half, and it was a different tale. He was always favourite, starting at odds on, and he beat Gipsy Pronto by a length, with Mary Lou in third place, running the distance in 3min 22sec. Considering the fact that Walla Walla is raced on so few occasions nowadays, the time was remarkably good. His best for the journey is 3min 17sec, which is still a mainland record.

A DRESS CIRCLE TROTTER. A number of promising square-gaited performers were seen out during the holiday circuit, and of this line owners and trainers as well as racegoers in general had to take off their hats to the Riversdale trainer, Eric Mitchell, who produced the most promising square-gaited performer seen about the province for some time (says a Soutljern writer). Teviot Downs is the name of the star, who in annexing a race both at. Gore and Winton gave an exhilarating display on each occasion. By Lee Norris out of Nihilotis, the six-year-old stallion trotted like a seasoned performer in both his essays and put in finishing bursts which were characterised with determination. His effort at Winton was even more creditable than his performance at Gore, for, after losing about three seconds at the start he paced the two miles in 4.44, starting off a smin mark in a 5.4 class. There is no doubt that he is really a dress-circle trotter. In Teviot Downs, Mitchell has one of the best trotters that the province has seen for some time, and this has been fully realised by racegoers, for on both his victorious appearances he was given sustained rounds of applause. RICHLY BRED PACER. The fact that she is a daughter of one of the most successful light harness sires in New Zealand, viz., Sungod (by Harold Dillon imp. from My Mistake, by Sacramento from Peggy, by Yankee, Son of Berlin) from Win Soon, who accounted for the New Zealand Trotting Cup (2m.) in 4.31 in 1914, attracted considerable attention to a novice pacing filly who came into the limelight at the Southland Racing Club’s recent summer meeting. The. three-year-old referred to, All Sunshine, finished second in the Makarewa Saddle Trot (lim.) behind Blue Mountain Queen, to set 3.35 1-5 against her name as a grass track performance and incidentally returned a double-figure reward, and stayed on in pronounced fashion, greatly to the pleasure of her owner, Mr F. L. Price, and the careful trainer who developed her, H. H. Booth. Apart from the knowledge that she is a descendant of Sungod, it is interesting to recall the pedigree of her dam, Win Soon (4.38 2-5), a New Zealand Cup winner by King Child (son of Rothschild) from Topsy, by Maclethean from a mare by a thoroughbred sire. Win Soon was not a lonehanded stud product, as her half-sisters I Too Soon (4.44 1-5) and Go Soon (4.43), by Gossoon and Harold Rothschild respectively, were both good pacers and attractively-turned mares, states the Southland “ Times.” The latest member of this family to display rac- | ing form of a promising description i resembles her dam to a marked extent, ! but is a more sober proposition and j paces with greater freedom. All Sun- } shine was first handled by the gallop- ' ing trainer, A. S. Ellis, now of Riccarj ton, but it was H. H. Booth, of East Invercargill, who first set about de- ! veloping the Sungod filly, and that he | has done his work well goes without j saying. It is safe to say that an in- | terested observer of All Sunshine’s pro- | mise was one of the oldest and most consistent followers of the trotting sport in Invercargill, Mr T. M’Curdy, j who owned Kingchild for many years l as the sire of the Cup winner Win I Soon.