TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20232, 16 February 1934, Page 10

TROTTING NOTES.

sum]® si gna mss® a @ is si® mis sr DOMINATIONS for the Invercargill Trotting Club's annual meeting will close to-day, at 5 p.m. sfc sie sje Nominations for the Wellington Trotting Club’s autumn meeting will close on February 22, at 8 p.m. * * * Acceptances for the trotting events to be decided at the Gore Racing Club’s meeting are due to-day. * * *• * Entries for the trotting events at the Waimate Racing Club’s meeting ( will close on February at 8 p.m. Acceptances for the trotting events to be decided at the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s meeting will close on February 23. sfc sje sj« The grass track at New Brighton will be available for tast work to-mor-row morning. A FINE THREE-YEAR-OLD. Chancellor, one of the best three- , vear-olds the North Island has produced, and undoubtedly one of the best of his age in the Dominion, was not produced on the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting, being withdrawn in favour of his stable-mate, Mazda, who failed badly. Chancellor won the Great Northern Derby in a jog in 3min 27 2-ssee, and although defeated by his stable-mate, Worthy Light. in the Premier Handicap, . recorded 2min 47 3-ssec, a fraction ! slower than the placed times of Wilma ; Dillon and Avernus in the high-class ; sprint race At the October meeting at Epsom Chancellor took a mile and a half record of 3min 21 2-ssec on a track that was not fast, and he should soon add to his winning list. He is engaged at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting to-morrow. * * * * Gold Tinge has left M. B. Elwards’s stable. * * * * Possessing a brilliant burst of speed Gala Day is sure to be one of the favourites for the Trial Handicap at Auckland to-morrow, as it would be difficult to name one to beat him should he trot solidly all the way. At the Christmas carnival at Epsom he was so far out in front on two occasions that there did not appear much likelihood of his getting beaten, j but a break about half a mile from home saw the others run up to him on each occasion before he settled down again. The better class trotters are now conceeding T. Roe’s trotter a big handicap, and he should set them a very hard proposition to beat him to-morrow. FIRST START AT AUCKLAND. Purchased by the Takanini trainer, F. J. Smith, at the conclusion of the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting in January, Wrecker will make his first appearance in his new colours in the Otahuhu Handicap at Auckland tomorrow. He has been working along in sound fashion at Takanini, and, as the class is not particularly strong to-morrow, he is sure to come in for solid public support. Wrecker has registered some very fast performances, and at Ashburton last December went 3min 17 2-ssec when he finished in second place. IN FORM. Willie Derbv has this season been showing something of the form which gained him the reputation of being a good handicap horse in the South Island. Before leaving W. J. Tomkinson’s stable he took a placed race record of 3min 19 1-osec, but for some time after going north he ran much below form. At the Waikato spring meeting he won the C’laudelands Handicap in 3min 25sec, and showed good form in two miles races at the Auckland summer meeting. After being second to Cimarron on the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s Christmas meeting he won the New Year Handicap on the last day in easy fashion. Willie Derby is not without prospects of again winning in the near future. FIVE SECONDS. Five seconds in five successive starts is the record this season of the honest trotting mare, Goldpn Eagle. This consistency has earned her 30 yards penalty, and she is now back on the same mark as Manna’s Son, whose two wins at the October meeting at Epsom cost him 72 yards. Golden Eagle was defeated at the summer meeting at Auckland by Kuini. Indolent and Mountain Sun, and with the last-named pair back to the same line, she should hold them safe. Golden Eagle has recorded 3min 31 1-5 sec and 4min 44 3-ssec for a mile and a half and two miles respectively, and her consistency should soon be rewarded. She should race well to-morrow. i>,t * * The two seconds gained by Worthy Chief at Auckland recently were very credible efforts, and showed him up as a much-improved pacer. Last season Worthy Chief raced consistently at Ilawera for a win, a second and two thirds in four starts, but there was not a great deal of merit in his winning performance. He improved so much in stamina that he ran out a good mile and a half, going 3min 27 l-ssec, and off the end of the Mount Albert Handicap at Auckland to-morrow should i take beating. READY TO WIN. Cimarron gave a taste of his rare qualities when he spread-eagled a useful field of two-mile pacers in the Christmas Handicap at Auckland in December, registering the smart time of 4min 30 2-ssec off 4min 40sec. On l the second and third days he went to a bad break when in a likely position two furlongs from home and finished out of the money. In the Dominion Handicap it was stated that the pacer „ slipped, causing him to miss his hopples, and the reason advanced for ’ his lapse in the New Year Handicap was that he remembered the incident of the previous day. Cimarron is in * great heart at present and should take a povver of beating in the Papakura * Handicap at Epsom to-morrow. c WORKING WELL. f Nothing is working better at Epsom * than Phyllis Axworthy, and for a mare 1 in her class her work has been very I impressive. Last week she was sent over a mile and a half in 3min 28 3-ssec, the last half in lmin 4sec, and was finishing on very solidly at the finish. Phyllis Axworthy has not c started for some considerable time, * but when trained by W. Hughes at | ' Palmerston North was recognised as ! v possessing brilliant speed, but was a■ ( little deficient in stamina. R. Ken- I nerlev has the bay mare looking in ’ I first-rate condition, and she may effect ! -\ a surprise in the Mount Albert Handi-1 c cap at Auckland to-morrow. Jr

WILMA DILLON WELL Since being; taken over by L. Mitchell after the Christmas carnival at Epsom, Wilma Dillon has worked along in great style, and is looking in great condition. Always recognised as a gay deceiver, his work last week makes his prospects appear very bright for this week’s meeting at Auckland, and it remains to be seen whether he will reproduce his track form on race day. If he does, he will win. * * * * Messrs J. R. and A. J. Corrigan have donated a cup valued at 20 guineas to be presented to the owner of the winner of the Hawera Trotting Cup, which will be decided on March 31. On the second day of the meeting Messrs James Buchanan and Co.’s handsome gift of a canteen of cutlery valued at £25 will become the property of the owner of the winner of the Wai- , mate Plains Handicap.

Tr.OTTTXC FIXTURES. February 17. 21—Auckland T.C. February 21. 22—Gore R C. February 24—New Brighton T.C. March 2, 3—lnvercargill T.C. March 3—Wellington T.C. March 9. 10—Cromwell J.C. March 10—Timaru T.C. March 14— Manawatu TC. March 14—Kaikoura T.C March 14—W.vndham T.C. March 15—Waimate R C. March 17—Cheviot T.C. March 17. 24—Wanganui T.C. March 23—South Otago T.C. March 24—Roxburgh T.C. March 24, 26—Westport J.C.