TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20342, 27 June 1934, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

i a u ® m ® is @ m a [i a in g] g] m a @ in g] ACCEPTANCES for the Marlborough Trotting Club’s meeting at New Brighton close at 1 p.m. on Monday. * * i’fi * Mr A. J. Hastings will be present at the New Brighton course to-morrow morning to give horses barrier education. * ❖ * * Owing to the soft state of the grass course at New Brighton, it will not be available for fast work prior to the Marlborough Trotting Club’s meeting. * * ik * The well-known sportsman, Mr J. Richardson, flew from Dunedin to Christchurch yesterday to see W. J. Tomkinson, seriously ill at St George's Hospital. HAS A SPLINT. The pacing mare, Dollydora, is at present receiving veterinary treatment for a splint, and will not race for some time. She is being exercised daily, so that she will be in fair condition to undertake a thorough preparation when the splint is cured. Dollydora is a good looking five-year-old mare by Rey de Oro, and she won at the Kaikoura Club’s meeting and paid a big dividend. * 4= * The annual meeting of members of the New Brighton Trotting Club will be held at the club’s offices, Armagh Street, Christchurch, on Friday, July 6, at 8 p.m. THREE INJURED, Three persons were injured when Baritone, a novice trotter, bolted at the Ascot trotting meeting on June 11. They were: Arthur Arms, attendant, dislocated shoulder; Don Furlong, attendant, badly bruised left hip; \Y. M’Cusker, driver of Baritone, deep gash over left temple, five stitches inserted. The horse appeared to be uninjured, and little damage was done to the sulky. Baritone bolted and galloped for about two furlongs before the first race and, as soon as the tapes were released, he again bolted and galloped for about five furlongs. An inquiry was held by the stewards. P. M Grath, representing the owner, was informed that a repetition of such conduct would cause future nominations of the horse to be rejected. MYTH OR PE AT EPSOM. The Cambridge trainer A. Ayres has arrived at Epsom with Mythorpe, but the horse was given only light exercise, owing to having a bruised foot, which, how*ever, Ayres does not consider will develop seriously. Mythorpe, who has ' done well in his preparation, has had a varied career. He first raced for J. T. Paul, who presented him to J. Donohue, of Ramarama. Donohue won a saddle race at Te Aroha with the pacer and later disposed of him for £lO. Since then Mythorpe has changed hands on several occasions, but has not succeeded in winning. MO AN A TAMA'S NEXT, R. Motz has recommissioned the two-year-old pacer, Moana Tama, and will prepare him for the Waterlea Handicap to be decided at the Marlborough Trotting Club’s meeting. It was intended to rest Moana Tama until the spring, but the two-year-old insisted on galloping round his enclosure, and his antics pointed to his meeting with an accident. The gelding’s behaviour caused his trainer to alter his plans. The juvenile is in rare buckle, and will strip in beautiful order for his engagement on Saturday week. AUBURN LADS DAM. Mr R. R. M’Lennan, once prominent in Victorian trotting circles, was a former owner of Yelocity, later famed as the dam of Auburn Lad. Mr M’Lennan is now a Melbourne business man, says a Melbourne writer, and, though not an active participant is naturally interested in the doings of Auburn Lad. According to Mr M’Lennan, Velocity, by imported W. W. Estill from a Directaway mare, was, like her sire, a trotter, but rather a duffer at the business. She was eventually tried in straps, and leased for racing in Tasmania, where she was successful. Eventually returning to Mr M’Lennan, who had originally bought the mare for about £25, Velocity was “ swapped ” to the late Robert Hannah for another horse. At that time Mr Hannah resided at Lilydale, where Auburn Lad first saw the light. As is now past history, the gelded son of Globe Derby in New Zealand equalled Walla Walla’s Sydney record of 2min 2 2-ssec from a flying start. W. M’Kay, owner and trainer, was the driver. MAY PROVE A BARGAIN. The two-vear-old pacer, Hidden Charm, promises to add to the list of sale ring bargains. His owner, Air A. E. Messervy, purchased his dam, Louvain Chimes, in foal to Nelson Derby for one guinea. Two months later Hidden Charm was born. When the gelding was old enough to be weaned, Mr Messervy sold Louvain Chimes for £2 10s. Hidden Charm is a good looking juvenile, and his performance in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes was sufficiently good to cause his owner to think he will win races. Hidden Charm is now under the care of his owner, who will prepare him for future racing. LEADING TRAINER. 11. M. Parshall, a leading American trainer, with headquarters at Urbana, Ohio, has more than 100 horses in work. No fewer than twenty-four from this stable will be raced on the Grand Circuit, which extends from June 23 to July 7. The Match Race between Calumet Crusader and Vansandt will take place on July 4. The race is for 2500 dollars, and will be decided on the best two out of three mile heats. In each day’s racing on the-Grand Circuit a handicap event will conclude the racing, and while all the big events are run over a mile, these races vary in distance from six furlongs to nine furlongs. Most [of these handicaps are claiming races. The idea is to put a price on a horse, and anyone may purchase at the amount advertised. The smaller the price the better the horse is handicapped. If he is nominated for 700 dollars he starts off scratch, at 1000 dollars he starts from 40ft behind, and at 1200 dollars he is asked to concede 80ft start. Others may start in the race I without a claiming fee, but in this case a penalty of 120 ft is imposed. The races are decided on the two-heat system, but the winner of the first is penalised 40ft in the second.