TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 743, 22 April 1933, Page 13

TROTTING NOTES.

51 S 3®® ® @ 111 @® ® ® ®®US® S 3 ® ill H for the trotting races a 1 the Southland Racing Club’s win ter meeting will close on April 26, a 1 5 p.m. * * * * Acceptances for the trotting event! at the Reefton Jockey Club’s autumr meeting will close on Monday. * * * * Acceptances for the trotting events at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting are due on Monday. * * * * The trotting mare Raclaim has made a pleasing recovery from the injuries she received in an accident at Dun edin, and is moving solidly in her work at Durbar Lodge. ABOUT SATIN KING. O. E. Hooper has decided to nurse Satin King until the new season. Ths gelding’s leg is none the worse for h;< race at Addington, but Hooper con siders it wise to give the pacer plenty of time to recover from the trouble That seems a wise course, for wher able to stand a preparation Satin Kins will win several races. * * sjc The imported American pacer Davie M’Elwyn has improved considerably ir every department this season. Ic. addi tion to an increase in speed, he is able to see out a two-mile journey. Hi: success in the Hawera Cup was ver ; popular, and certainly gratifying to hi: owner, Mr S. W. Kelly, who brough him from the United States when h< was a yearling. David M’Elwyn is b} Mr M’Elwyn from Lallah Rookh Watts Unfortunately he is threatened witl unsoundness, and that is the reasoi why he was relieved of his engagemen on the second day at Hawera and a Ashburton. A rest is expected to pu him right again. ** * A special horse train will leave Christchurch for Dunedin on Wednes day, May 3, at 6.40 a.m., in connectioi with the Forbury Park Trotting Club’ winter meeting, which is set down lo May 4 and 6. A carriage will be at tached to the train for attendants, s. special train taking passengers ane horses will leave Dunedin for Christ church on Sunday, May 7, at 7.30 a.m It is due at Christchurch at 4.40 p.m CORRIGAN’S SALE. The usual Easter sale of Corrigai trotting stock was well attended, tm there was little demand for well-lucc horses. Forty lots were submitted anc only thirteen were sold. The trottinj mare Red Eagle was purchased by M: R. Millen, of Auckland, for 424 guineas the top price of the sale. The sains buyer secured the brood mare Mane for 7 guineas. Mr F. J. Smith, of Takanini, bough a good-looking yearling by Worth} Bingen—Shirley Audubon for 74 guin eas, and Mr E. F. Benjamin, Hamilton paid 17 guineas for a filly by Worth} Bingen—Free Girl. Mr W. Pope, o Blenheim, owner of Belle o’ Mine secured her full-sister, Winshow, foi 74 guineas. The trotting mare Miss Braeside, foi merly trained by Smith at Auckland was sold for 10 guineas. GIPSY PRONTO’S DOUBLE! The Don Pronto mare Gipsy Prontc can be written down as one of the fast est unhoppled pacers the Sydney tracks have seen, states an Australian writer For a considerable time she was unre liable, making wild breaks, but in hei more recent races she has paced honestly. At Victoria Park Gipsy Pronto was started against the hoppled pacers ir the Trial Handicap. Off 48yds behind she quickly made up her handicap and, taking command entering thstraight, won pulling up in 3min 284 sec A couple of races later she was start ed in the Unhoppled Handicap, a pen alty of 12yds putting'her on 132yds behind. The only one considered tc have a chance against her, even if a remote one, was Native Pronto. Gipsy Pronto again won with the greatest ease, the official time being 3min 251 sec. The record for the race is held by Sheik with 3min 202 sec. How good Gipsy Pronto is may be gauged from the fact that the A.T.C. Handicap, laier in the day. was won by the hoppled pacer Steel Globe in 3min 29sec. NO CONFIDENCE MOTION.

In connection with the plebiscite now being conducted by the Victorian Trotting and Racing Association on the future system of handicapping, the committee of the Trotting League contended that every owner should have had a chance to vote, and not only those who have raced horses at Ascot’s recent meetings. No opinion was expressed regarding the desirability of recommending any particular method, as the forms were distributed and had to be returned before the matter could be discussed. Mr R. Fromer moved and Mr D. Hastie seconded the following motion, —“ That we have no confidence in the result of the vote on handicapping owing to the fact that the majority of owners were not invited to yote.” MINOR HEIR, I.SSL It is always interesting to read the lives of the great racehorses, and one of the most interesting is the life history of the pacer Minor Heir, who never had a hopple placed on him (says an Australian writer). 3c * sjc s*: Foaled in 1902, nothing was done with him until two years old, -when he was broken in and jogged on the road. At that time he would either trot or pace, but showed no promise at either. As a three-year-old, he did some work with another horse on a mail route. Sent to a trainer before the season was over, he had worked a mile in 2min pacing. Returned to his owner, who did -not think much of him, he tried to sell, but could not find a buyer. He was then sent to C. E. Dean, a leading trainer of the day. Dean . thought a lot of him, and against hi's advice the owner-breeder sold him to P. C. Isaacs. He did nothing in his fourth year, but began his racing as a five-vear-old. Another great five-year-old maiden pacer that came out the same season as Minor Heir was The Eel, and these two horses that had started the season as maidens proved the greatest rivals of the year for champion honours. They fought many battles, but in the end Minor Heir came out on top, joining the list of two-minute pacers. He was the only horse in history that started the season, as a maiden and ended with a Imin 59sec record. He was also the first horse to do a mile in 2min flat in a race. * # * * TROTTING FIXTURES: April 26—Reefton J.C. April 27, 29—South Canterbury J.C.