TROTTING

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 16

TROTTING

TRACK STABLE

for the trotting events at the Reefton Jockey Club’s meeting are due on April 9 * * * ❖ Nominations for the trotting events to be decided at the Amberley Racing Club’s meeting will close on April 10. * * * hc Acceptances for the Ashburton Trotting Club’s autumn meeting are due on April 10.

The popular president of the Oamaru Trotting Club, Mr M. J. Hannon, took ill on Easter Monday and is in Lewisham Hospital. Mr Hannon is making a satisfactory recovery. NOT TITS BE.ST FORM,

Probationer, did not race up to expectations at the Easter meeting at Addington. On the first day she was in sixth place in the Belfast Handicap with a round to go, but faded in the straight. On the second day she was third out of the barrier, and was fifth three furlongs from home, but again lacked a finishing effort. Both races were decided over ten furlongs, which is regarded as her favourable distance. BACKED AND FAILED. There was substantial backing for Arethusa in sprint races at the Easter meeting at Addington. On the first day was fifth out of the barrier and raced promisingly for a mile, but tired in the straight. On the second day she was sixth when the field bad settled down, and went a good race to occupy third berth at the winning post. In that race she registered 2min 41 4-ssec for the ten furlongs. It was a good performance. A CONUNDRUM. Gunfire is racirig very disappointingly. At the recent meeting at Addington he led in the early stages of his races, but stopped badly in the straight. Last year Gunfire won over two miles in a manner that suggested he was a good stayer, but his recent displays show a distinct loss of stamina even in ten-furlong races. A CONSISTENT TROTTER. The trotting gelding King’s Voyage went two splendid races at the Easter meeting at Addington, where he contested the mile and a half event each day. From 36yds behind he raced in a good position in both races, and was in the thick of the fight to the finish, occupying third berth both days. King’s Voyage is an aged son of Happy Voyage, from Queen Cole, and is trained at Russley by D. Withers. KAIKOURA MEETING. _ Owners are reminded that nominations for the Kaikoura Trotting Club’s annual meeting will close with the secretary, Mr W. Perrin, at Kaikoura, on Monday next, at 9 p.m. The club has issued an attractive list of events for maiden and improving horses. The generosity of the club in offering to pay transit charges to the extent of £3 for every horse from Christchurch to Kaikoura and return should encourage owners of horses suitable for the classes to nominate. The club has also reduced the entrance fees. It is hoped that owners will respond liberally to the club’s offer and that big entries will be recorded. NOT HER DAY. Raclaim failed T>adly in both her races at the Easter meeting at Addington. Following her very promising displays this season, her form was a big disappointment. TWO SALE-RING BARGAINS. Don Chenault and Nicoya are two bargains of the sale-ring. Both trotters have won several races, and are on the way to being in the first flight of trotters. Early in their careers, they were placed under the hammer at “ Tattersall’s,” where they were sold for less than ten pounds each. STILL DOUBTFUL. R. J. Humphreys has got Great Nelson to trot solidly, but a mile seems to be about as far as the gelding can go. In both his races at Addington he was well paced during the early stages, but stopped to a walk over the last two furlongs.

IN HOOPER’S STABLE. Willow Wave, who won the Winton and Invercargill Trotting Cups recently, has joined O. E. Hooper’s team. Ilocper has enjoyed a great deal of success with horses from Southland, and Willow Wave should prove a very useful addition to the stable. HAROLD LOGAN. Mr E. F. C. Hinds left last evening for Palmerston North with Harold Logan and the trotter Billy Sunday. Harold Logan will give an exhibition at the Manawatu Trotting Club’s meeting to-day, but Billy Sunday is not engaged. Mr Hinds will go on to the Thames, and to the Te Aroha Trotting Clubs’ meetings, where he will race Billy Sunday, but at present no arrangement has been made with either club regarding a performance by Harold Logan. The two horses will then go on to complete at the Auckland and the Northland Trotting Clubs’ meetings. AN EXTRA MEETING. The Wellington Trotting Club has obtained permission to hold an extra meeting on its course at Hutt Park, on May 19. This meeting will be held at a convenient time, and with an added attraction in a special race over one mile and a quarter for Walla Walla, Harold Logan, Lindbergh, Red Shadow, and Glenrossie. A, big crowd is certain to be present. THREE TO BbONDIEThe cream pacing gelding Blondie drew attention to the qualities of his sire, Jack Potts, when he won three races at the recent meeting at Hawera. Blondie is the first member of the Jack Potts tribe to win, but according to the glowing accounts to hand of several two-year-olds by the American sire, the name of Jack Potts should be prominent in the sire’s list next season. * * * * Ronald Derby in B. Jarden’s hands, ran two good races at the Beaumont Racing Club’s fixture, states “Sentinel.” In his first attempt he ran second and recorded 3min 28sec for a mile and a half, while later in the day he won over a mile in 2min 18sec. Ronald Derby was a winner last season as a three-year-old, and should show further improvement. He is by Nelson Derby, from a mare by Harold Dillion. He is a well mannered horse, and next season promises to see him develop a useful stake-earner. # * * * Mr J. B. Westerman has a very attractive filly by the American sire, Frank Worthy, whose name is being feely mentioned as a sire of well shaped and very promising pacers. ROCKS AHEAD. The four-year-old mare Rocks Ahead, dinner of the Wakatipu and Ohai Trot Handicaps, over one mile and a half and one mile and a quarter respectively, at the Riverton Racing Club’s Annual fixture (oncluding day) on Tuesday last, was bred by Mr 11. Hunter, of Wynlham, and races for Mr F. W. M’Gill, of Invercargill, is a pacer who may improve with age and experience, states the “ Southland Times.” This latest aspiran.t for light harness fame in the home province is well-bred, as she is returned as by Happy Voyage from First Water (p. 4.35 min 2-ssec), by Harold Rothschild from Red Diamond, by Prince Imperial from a Blackwood mare. The dam of E. Todd’s pupil comes from old New Zealand families very succesful at the stud as represented by Harold Rothschild, King Harold, Rothschild, and Prince Imperial, and is yet another instance of the debt of gratitude owed by Southland breeders of to-day to the men who introduced many good mares and' sires to the province in years gone by. TROTTING FIXTURES. April 6, 7—Greymouth J.C. April 7—Taranaki T.C. April 7—Manawatu T.C. April 11—Reefton J.C. April 14—Ashburton T.C. April 14—Thames T.C. April 21—Te Aroha T.C. April 26— Marlborough T.C. April 28—Auckland T.C. April 28—Amberley R.C. May 3, s—Forbury Park T.C.