TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20311, 22 May 1934, Page 10

TROTTING NOTES.

m m m in m si in m a is m ® is ® m m is m n i for the Ashburton Trotting Club’s winter meeting will close on Monday, May 28, at 8 p.m. Two-year-olds remaining in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes after May 2S must pay the lull subscription of £l2. Acceptances for the first day of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s winter meeting will close on May 29, at noon. * * * * Acceptances for the trotting events included in the programme for the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s winter meeting are due to-day. Nominations for the trotting events to be decided at the Greymouth Jockey Club's winter meeting will close on May 26, at 9 p.m. * * * W. J. Tomkinson’s condition has improved sufficiently to enable him to leave hospital. TO CORRESPONDENT. “Wager” (Glentunnel). —There are two mares named Rosy Morn. One is \ a dark chestnut by Prince Imperial from Polly, and the other is a bay 1 mare by Xing Child from Kentucky. Which of the two do you require further particulars about? S. A. EDWARDS According to a northern report, the well-known Canterbury horseman, S. A. Edwards, has accepted a position of private trainer to Mr Wilfred Johnstone, whose establishment is in the Waikato district. BIGGER STAKES. The Auckland Trotting Club has decided to increase the stake-money for its winter meeting to £2400, this being £3OO more than was distributed for the corresponding meeting last year. The classes have been reviewed, and several alterations have been made. The meeting is set down for Wednesday and Saturday, June 20 and 23. JESTER DESTROYED. Owing to Jester developing severe tendon trouble, the Takanui trainer F. J. Smith found it necessary to destroy the gelding. Jester was a very disappointing pacer, possessing a great burst of speed, but a tendency to break at the start militated against his prospects on numerous occasions. RACING WELL. Wee Machine is racing in very improved style of late, and since joining F. J. Smith’s stable has won two races in four starts. He registered a very impressive performance when he annexed the Waikato Handicap on the first day of the Waikato meeting, winning easily by six lengths and registering 4min 34 l-ssec for the two miles. On the second day Wee Machine was started in the open sprint event, and if he had been kept nearer the leaders in the early part would have been very hard to dispose of, as he was finishing particularly fast in fourth place. Wee Machine is a rare stayer, but has raced very erratically in the past, breaking for no apparent reason, and now that he is racing more solidly his owner, Mr C. Cowan, shouuld enjoy more success with the son of Auto Machine. GETTING WORSE Victorian trotting has fallen into a state of coma. Gradually racing opportunities have been whittled away, and all the trotting, men do is to talk about it among themselves (says the “Sydney Referee”). It seems as if the controlling proprietary club has determined to bring them to heel. What is badly needed in Victoria just now is a - strong leader who does not fear the heavy hand of the club and who organise the trotting owners and trainers in the simplest possible manner by calling a meeting, and then place the actual position before the Government. No intermediaries would be necessary and the case for a nonproprietary club established. Such action could not fail to do good, as the sport is at such a low ebb at present that inaction will spell its doom. Victoria is really the best trotting State in the Commonwealth. It has had more genuine trotting men, country clubs, breeders, and enthusiasts than any other State, but lately they have forsaken the sport in large numbers owing to the unenterprising and dogmatic policy of the ruling body. Once a trotting man always a trotting man,” is a true saying, and these men would come back to the sport if they had reasonable inducement, and, , moreover, they would rally to help 1 any strong man who “ takes the bit in his teeth” at present. It is a crying shame to read and hear of so many good men leaving the sport for galloping or to race in other States or New Zealand, or sit back disgusted. The history of England shows that when she needed a strong leader one arose. Will one arise in Victoria to earn the gratitude of present and future trotting men in that State?” REASSESSMENTS. Placed horses in the trotting- events at the Southland Jockey Club’s meet-

ing have been reassesse Table. as follows: Black Shadow . . 1 7 Bright Voyage . . 1 Manrico Lee .... 1 13 Master Lee 1 Mountain Jewel . 1 Red King 1 I i Vacation 1 Placed horses in the :rotting events at the Ashburton Racing Club’s autumn meeting have been reas sossed as folTable. Line. Cam Dillon 1 Harvestin 1 10 Impostor 1 9 Llewellyn’s Pride 1 12 Placed horses at the Wellington Trotting Club's meeting assessed as follows. have been reTable. Line. All Worthy .... 1 13 CK,n-::::: i 2.11 2.44 4.29 13 Chiming Wrack . 2 it 1 First Judge .... 1 Full Hand 1 Harold Logan . . 1 Harvest Dillon . 2 2.6 2.38 4.20 14 Impromptu .... 1 Indianapolis ... 1 ii i:tit:If Lynley de Oro . 1 6 Master Roy 1 2.12 2.45 4.30 Max Havoc .... 1 Mother’s Boy .. 2 if Raydus 1 Red Flyer 1 Red Shadow ... 1 2.11 2.44 4.29 2.7 2.39 4.22 Worthy Queen . . 2 42