TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 3 February 1934, Page 16

TROTTING NOTES.

mmmm®m si mis m m®mmm mss m [DOMINATIONS for the New Brighton Trotting Club’s autumn meeting will close on Thursday, at noon. Acceptances for the trotting events at the Marlborough Racing Club’s meeting close at 9 p.m. on Monday. AT GREYMOUTH. The Nelson Trotting Club, which postponed its annual meeting on account of lack of nominations, has applied for permission to hold the meeting at Greymouth on a date to be arranged. The Nelson Club held a meeting at Greymouth in June last. It was a big success, and demonstrated the need for a winter meeting on the West Coast. CRICKET MATCH. A cricket match between the Addington trotting men and the Star Rovers’ Cricket Club will take place at the Showgrounds during the week-end, at 1 p.m. The following will represent the trotting men:—E. Kennerley (captain), F. Owen, R. Scott, L. Butterfield, L. Archer, N. Burtt, J. Glover, J. Tomkinson, E. N. Kennerley, N. Jarden. R. Garden. D. M’Kivett. * * * # Wise Guy is in beautiful order to continue a remunerative campaign. He is a contented gelding, who will train on sufficiently well to win another race or two. The well-known sportsman, Mr J. R. M’Kenzie, will leave this evening on a world tour. He expects to be away about six months. * * * * The trotting gelding Norman Fox is being kept going with a view to racing at the autumn meetings. He is in splendid health and is bowling along freely in his work at Addington. NOT DISGRACED. Sylvia Sydney did not disgrace herself in her only start at the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting. She struck a hot field and she did well to finish fourth. * * Sfc « The one-time promising young pacer, Royal de Oro, turned out a big disappointment, and eventually D. Teahen sold him for £ls It was Rare Pronto that got E. Kennerley into trouble at the Greymouth Club’s meeting. She always was a terror to bore. She is in foal to Truman Direct, and will be retired to the brood mare paddock. * * * ®Je R. B. Berry had a piece of bad luck recently. He had to destroy a foal by Jack Potts from Sea Elf, by Wrack from Sea Pearl. The foal had a leg very badly injured. * ❖. ❖ * E. A. Berry is preparing the pacing gelding Happi for suitable novice events at the autumn meetings. Happi showed promising £orm at the New Brighton Trotting Club’s meeting on December 9, where he ran third to Young Travis and Margaret Chenault in 3min 29 3-ssec. Since then, Young Travis has won two races and Margaret Chenault has added three to her list. Happi’s form at New Brighton reads well. BETTY JINKS. J- Young has the pacing mare Betty Jinks in work at Addington. She is by Peter Moko from Lady Jinks, the dam of Author Jinks and John Jinks. Betty Jinks competed in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes in 1932. She developed speed early, but she could not control it. She has furnished into a handsome mare, and tuition and racing may enable her to uphold the prestige of the family. CHAMPION STAKES. Nominations for the New Zealand Champion Stakes, of 500 sovs, for three-year-olds of next season, to be decided at the Ashburton Trotting Club’s summer meeting on Boxing Day, will close on Monday, February 5, at 5 p.m. Owners of present two-year-olds are reminded of this entry. Nominations for the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, of 1000 sovs, 1935, will also close on February 5, at 5 p.m. Owners are reminded that entries for this event are for present season’s yearlings. STARTING CRITICISED. A lot of criticism has taken place lately concerning the starting in the Southland provinces. The bulk of adverse comment has been levelled at the method employed. One southern owner has gone as far as to state that he will not race horses until an improvement is effected. * ❖ ❖ sis Several promising pacers are bobbing up in Southland. One that has impressed greatly is the three-year-old Picottee, by Guy Parrish from Azaleas, the dam of Azure. Picottee was seen out at the Wairio meeting, where he acted particularly well for a novice. He was bred by the Oreti enthusiast, Mr J. F. Hamilton, and is being trained by J. Walsh. AN UNHOPPLED RACE, Seeing that in all but the improvers’ races there is not an abundance of horses available in Auckland, it might be a good move on the part of one of the clubs to consider putting on a race for unhoppled horses. A mile and a half, say, round about a 3min 34sec class, would probably find a- number of pacers on hand, while it would also give the better class of our trotters an extra chance of picking up a stake. Such an event would certainly draw as well as some of the classes now figuring on the programmes, states the “ Auckland Star.” OPPONENTS FOR WALLA WALLA. It would be interesting to note which of the following pacers, who are handicapped on 2min lOsec or better, are selected to oppose the crack pacer Walla Walla when the invitation races are decided:—Red Shadow (2.7), Harold Logan (2.6), Roi l’Or (2.6), Jewel Pointer (2.7), Satin King (2.9, Kingcraft (2.9), Ro>'al Silk (2.9), Gold Country (2.9), Glenrossie (2.9). and Sir Guy (2.10), and maybe Indianapolis. HANDICAPPING, It is interesting to note that the automatic handicapping system operating in Sydney is not giving satisfaction, and in the latest issue of the Sydney Sportsman ” to hand the opinion is expressed that if the sport is to hold owners, the old order of assessments being made by a competent handicapper will have to be reverted to.