TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 931, 29 November 1933, Page 10

TROTTING NOTES.

for the Gore Trotting Club’s annual meeting will close on Monday, at 5 p.m. * * * * Acceptances for the New Brighton Trotting Club’s summer meeting will close on Tuesday, at noon. * * * * Nominations for the Ashburton Trotting Club’s summer meeting will close on December 7, at 8 p.m. Final forfeits for the New Zealand Champion Stakes, to be decided at Ashburton on Boxing Day, are due on December 7, at 5 p.m. * * * * Nominations for the trotting events to be decided at the Hororata Racing Club’s meeting will close at the offices of the Canterbury Tockey Club on Friday, at 5 p.m. The Hororata Club’s meeting will be held at Riccarton. NOW AT EPSOM. Social Pest, who will in future be trained by R. D. Kennerley at Auckland, has’ arrived from Christchurch, states the “ Auckland Star.” Social Pest showed : sufficiently good form during his short period of racing in Canterbury to warrant his being regarded a good proposition in his new location. ROWE CUP FAVOURITE. All going well it seems pretty safe to predict that Nell Volo will be inthe boom for the Rowe Trotting Cup, to be decided at the Auckland Trotting Club's Christmas meeting. The daughter of Peter Yolo is undoubtedly a high-class trotter, and a rare stayer, but there has been to date a tendency to go to a break during her races. She has not done a great deal of racing, and if she becomes thoroughly solid it would be doubtful if there is a straightout trotter in the land capable of beating her (states the “Auckland Star”). * * * * The promise shown by Winawav in the maiden race at Claudelands last month was not borne out when she competed in the recent Waikato Show trotting race. In her earlier attempt the Nelson .Derby pacer began very smartly and piloted the field at a good clip for nearly a mile. At the show she refused to strike a gait at the start and was soon out of court. The congestion of spectators at the startingpost probably affected her, for she has had very little racing experience and she cannot be hastily condemned for the poor display. RED HOPE. Although he failed to race up to expectations at the Waikato and Auckland October meetings, Red Hope will not lose many friends for his Epsom engagements next month (says an Auckland writer). He is a gross horse who evidently requires a good deal of work and is unfortunate that, being trained at Whangarei, he has no companions to assist him in his tasks. If he is brought to Auckland to finish off his preparation next month, Red Hope should make amends for his recent failures. ❖ * * * The Te Awamutu-owned and trained mare Tryment, who has gone on in the right way since running third to Worthy Light and Kia Kaha at the Waikato spring meeting, will be suited by the mile and a half novice classes at the Auckland summer meeting, with a limit of 3min 44sec, and from 36 yards behind she must be considered to hold excellent prospects. She is endowed with a useful turn of speed, and that she is not lacking in stamina she proved last season by coming at the right end of a mile and five furlongs race at Cambridge to defeat Red Hope. TROTTING FIXTURES. December 1, 2—Winton Jockey Club. . December 2—Ashburton County R.C. December 9—New Brighton T.C December 16—Hororata Racing Club (at Riccarton). December 26—Ashburton Trotting Club. December 26—Gore Trotting Club. December 26. 27—Westport T.C. December 26, 27—Wairarapa T.C. December 27, 29, 30—Auckland T.C. December 29—Winton Trotting Club. January 1, 2—Canterbury Park T.C. ’ January I—Wyndham Racing Club. January I—Waiau Racing Club. January 3—Westland Trotting Club. January 4, s—Greymouth Trotting Club.

HANDICAPPING. Amendment Will Help Cup Horses. The Handicapping: Committee of the New Zealand Trotting; Conference has in hand a revised portion of the handicapping system which affects horses assessed on line 32. The proposed amendments will not materially alter the present policy of handicapping horses on two-mile marks of 4.34 to 4.27. but will provide a welcome set of conditions governing the privileges of horses on faster marks over two miles anc * .°y er sprint distances. These new conditions will' remove a disability that affected many horses engaged in the New Zealand Trotting Cup. when their owners desired to start them in mile and a quarter races, without incurring a penalty in the Trotting Cup. Under the proposed new conditions a horse, after being handicapped in the New Zealand Trotting Cup. may win as many as four races over a mile and a quarter or a mile without affecting its two-mile mark. On the other hand, horses on tight marks over sprint distances mhy be free to win two, three and even four two-mile races without being penalised for sprint events. Another proposed condition is that concerning a horse who wins the big race and later in the same day is engaged in a mile and a quarter race. Under those circumstances it is proposed to inflict a penaltv of 12yds in the sprint race, but for that day only. If the horse in question competes in a sprint race on the second day of a meeting, then it will race from the mark it was on for a sprint race before it won the big race on the first day. This condition may bring about certain complications and the committee is giving the matter serious consideration. TAKAPUNA PLATE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, November 28. It is considered practically certain that the necessity for divisions in the Takapuna Plate will be obviated. In addition to Grand Sport and Queen Nona, who were withdrawn on Monday, Brown Lap was scratched at 3.4 5 p.m. to-day and Limbohm at 4.35 p.m. This brings the number of horses remaining to twenty-seven. There is reason to expect at least four more withdrawals, thus reducing the field to the safety limit of twenty-three.