TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20266, 28 March 1934, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

@ge®®inm amm m ® ®e§®mo si ® i DOMINATIONS for the trotting j events incorporated in the Reefton i Jockey Club’s programme will close today, at 9 p.m. I # * * * Acceptances for the trotting events to be decided at the Kumara Racing Club’s meeting are due to-morrow. ❖ * * * Acceptances for the trotting events to be decided at the Westland Racing Club’s meeting will close on April 3. * * * * The first race at Addington on Saturday will start at 12.5 p.m. sje * * * Wanderoo was the first horse in New Zealand to trot three miles in ten min utes. She put up the record at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s anniversary meeting held on March 21, 1891. She was owned by Mr W. Crossan and ridden by his brother, R. Crossan, and, incidentally, paid a huge dividend. Wanderoo was got by Bucephalus, a thoroughbred horse. * *• * * The match contest at Addington on Saturday is the third event on the race card, starting at 1.35 p.m. * * * * Honest Ned, whose death occurred recently, had reached the age of twenty-seven, and he set something of a record by winning a race when he was twenty-four. Honest Ned was by Kentucky Yet from May. and was owned by Mr D. Jones, of Beaumont. “ 1100-RAY !» When communicated with by telephone yesterday and informed that Walla Walla had drawn No. 1 position at the barrier for the Invitation Match Race at Addington on Saturday, Mr L. S. Martin expressed great pleasure at having had that good fortune. Fie was even heard to say at the other end of the ’phone, “Hoo-ray ! ” FROM THE NORTH. The pacing gelding Impromptu accompanied Jewel Pointer and Kewpie’s Triumph to Addington. Impromptu has received his preparation at his owner’s place in the Waikato district. The three-year-old filly Roma Girl* who was to have returned to Canterbury with Impromptu, has been leased by a Rotorua sportsman and will remain in the North Island. ROYAL AGAIN. For some time past Royal Again has been spending a lot of his spaie time in a paddock adjoining Lincoln Road. The fence is of wire construction, so Royal Again has had a full view of the traffic. The experience is expected to improve his temperament and give him confidence where crowds and noise are in evidence. In his training work an improvement in his demeanour has been noticed, and he has paced generously in the tasks that nave been apportioned him. Royal Again is a fast horse and he can stay, but he has hitherto ruin-d his chances of winning rac-s through breaking at the start or during his contests. WALLA WALLA’S TRIAL. Owing to the wet weather, the Addington track was unfit for training work yesterday, and, as Walla Walla and Auburn Lad were in need of fast work, their owners put them in a float and took them to Motukarara, where the course, though in a soft state, was good enough to indulge the horses in fast essays. Walla Walla was sent over one mile. He was accompanied by a pace-maker, and he reeled off the eight furlongs in 2min 12sec. He covered the first four furlongs in lmin 7sec. Mr L. S. Martin expressed himself as well pleased with the champion’s effort, and considers he will be “ cherry ripe ” for his important race at Addington on Saturday. Walla Walla has done par- j ticularly well during the last five days, and now bears a bright and muscular appearance. He will be raced in hopples and a Kant-see-back bridle, shin boots and rubber quarter boots lie has drawn number one position at the barrier, and, with an expert reinsman to assist him in .he Victorian horseman W. M’Kay, he is expected to go a great race. The stage is set for a gruelling contest on Saturday . ~ ADDINGTON FIELDS. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has received splendid acceptances for the first day of its Easter meeting which opens at Addington on Saturday. Of the original entries only fifteen horses were withdrawn from the eight events. The principal handicap race has attracted e'even high-class horses, including two f-om Auckland, one from Wellington and one from Australia. It promises to be a great race with the Commonwealth horse. Auburn Lad in the lead at the right part of the race. He is a hundred per cent horse and he has done everything required of him. Given a good track on Saturday he should improve upon anything he has recorded in Australia. Sunny Morn has been knocking at the door for some time, and if O. E. Hooper has him keyed up for Saturday’s events he should be prominent in the straight. The Auckland horse Kewpie’s Triumph h'-s raced consistently this season and he too. will appreciate the footing at Addington. His second to Jewel Pointer in the Summer Handicap at Wellington in January on a track that was slow in 4min 26 l-ssec, was a good effort. J. Bryce has driven him in most of his engagements this season, and most likely he will pilot the Auckland pacer in his races at Addington at Easter. TROTTING FIXTURES. March 31—Tuapeka C.J.C. March 31. April 2—Hawera T.C. March 31, April 4—New Zealand M.T.C. April 2—Kumara R.C. April 3—Riverton R.C. April 4—Westland R.C. April 6, 7—Greymouth J.C. April 7—Taranaki T.C. April 11—Reefton J.C. April 11— Manawatu T.C. April 14—Ashburton T.C. April 14—Thames T.C.