LEADING REINSMAN.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 809, 8 July 1933, Page 14

LEADING REINSMAN.

By winning the New Zealand championship for trotting trainers and reinsfor the 1932-33 season F. J. Smith has established a record for the North Island, this being the first occasion since the inception of the contests in 1914-15 for reinsmen and 1915-16 for trainers that the honours have been secured by a North Island trainer or driver. Smith has had a particularly successful season, having driven forty winners, thirty-eight of which were trained by him. The two outside successes were gained with Nellota at Auckland and Wiriwhata at Rotorua. During the season he trained forty-one winners, and of these his brother-in-law, C. Sinith, drove three Pageant twice at Thames and Guid Hairst at Epsom. In addition, F. J. Smith also drove thirteen seconds and sixteen thirds. The training successes were made up as follows: —Nell Yolo 7, Raider 6, Pegaway 5, Guid Hairst 5, Little Guy 4, Mazda 3, Pageant 3, Chancellor 3, Kewpie’s Guv 2, Carnui 1, Manco 1 and Worthy Light 1. Nell Volo. Raider, Mazda, Kewpie’s Guy and Manco won the first time they were produced bv Smith. Horses trained by him won £4OOO during the season, and also three canteens of cutlery, two whips, a silver cup and marble clock. The chief contributors to the earnings of the stable were:—Pegaway £570, Little Guy £465. Nell Volo £455, Pageant £435, Raider £415, Kewpie’s Guy £3BO, Guid Hairst £365, Chancellor £285 and Mazda £225 Nell Volo, who was imported, by Smith from America last season, finished second to Indolent at the Waikato summer meeting, but was placed first when the winner was distanced for galloping. On the second day of the Auckland winter meeting Nell Volo dead-heated with Gay Paree, but she shared the same fate as Indolent did at Hamilton. All Smith’s successes were gained in the North Island, and while he won races at Wellington. Ilawera, Wanganui and Hastings, the major portion of his winnings wgre gained in the Auckland Province. lie made a trip to Ashburton last month with the two-year-okl Chancellor, who ran third in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes. SEASONS UNIQUE RECORD.

When Lady Coronado won the cup and Kaipaki Handicap at Hamilton on Saturday last she completed a unique record of “double” winners at meetings of the Waikato Trotting Club this season. In October Direct Morning won the Mark Memorial and Visitors’ Handicap, and in December Brentlight won the Waikato and Farewell Handicaps. In the case of Direct Morning and Brentlight they won the second race after receiving 12 yards penalty, but with the looser limit on Saturday Lady Coronado was penalised 24 yards and still was successful.