TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20374, 3 July 1934, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

J HI HI EE HI dl HI ® ® ffl ® HI HI ® @ HI HI ® HI @1 DOMINATIONS for the Greymouth Trotting Club’s winter meeting will close on July 12.

B. Jarden will arrive from Dunedin on Thursday with Burlesque and Ronald Derby. These horses have two engagements each at the Marlborough Trotting Club’s meeting.

Consistency was a feature of Tempest’s form at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting and he had the exasperating luck to be beaten into second place at each of his three starts. He raced gamely and deserved a better reward, but there was no disgrace in being shaded by such high-class pacers as Worthy Light, Willie Derby and First Flight. He should prove a valuable member of Mr G. J. Barton’s team next season. WILLIE DERBY. Willie Derby has been a very successful performer this season, and has proved a good investment for his Ngaruawahia owner. L. Booth. By Nelson Derby, a well-performed son of Nelson Bingen and the great brood mare Norice from Credit Slip, Willie Derby is bred on sound staying lines and his recent form at two miles suggests that he will reach a higher standard next season. Willie Derby was formerly owned by Mr G. J. Barton, of Dunedin, and in winning the C. F. Mark Memorial Handicap defeated that owner’s horse Tempest. Nelson Derby won the Auckland Trotting Cup in 1925, and in Willie Derby he will have a strong representative next season. JACK POTTS’S PROGENY. Included in the team being worked by C. S. Donald are several promising young horses by Jack Potts. Though they have not advanced far enough to permit a definite statement, .the Belfast trainer is hopeful that one or two of them will be more than useful. M. B. Edwards has in hand three young horses by the same sire and he is well pleased with their progress. LUCKY LOVE, In winning the Manukau Handicap at Epsom last week. Lucky Love gave Nelson Tasker l*is first success as a sire, and judging by the resolute manner in which the four-year-old accomplished his victory, he will render his sire further service. Nelson Tasker, by Nelson Bingen from Sal Tasker, a veryspeedy mare, was a high-class performer several seasons ago, and while his best performances were at a mile and a quarter, he won several very solid races at two miles. Lucky Love’s dam, Sparkling Pronto, was bred in Australia, and she has a good deal of the Childe Harold blood. SITE'S HONEST, Although she does not win out of her turn, Moko Girl, another Peter Moko representative, is a really good trotter when she can be kept to an even gait. In winning the Members’ Handicap at the Auckland Trotting Club’s . meeting, in which she was driven by her trainer, W. T. Dye, she gave a perfect exhibition. Moko Girl has a double strain of Childe Harold blood through her dam. The Limit, who is by Pygmalion, son of Rothschild, from Lady Rosebery, by Almont, son of Rothschild. ■* * * * Aircraft, who is by Nelson Bingen, is a nicely-bred four-year-old, his dam, Air Raid, being by Brent Locanda from Lady Zeppelin, who was by Rothschild from Lilian D., a Vancleve mare, whose dam. Victress, was by Abbotsford. Air Raid, who was bred by Mr J. Pettie, has a double strain of Ilambletonian 10 blood on the maternal side, and in Aircraft she has a young pacer who should prove a useful horse, like his half-brother, Warplane. Aircraft won at the recent meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club. AMERICAN BLOOD.

Representatives of leading American blood lines, Bingen, Peter the Great and Axworthy, were again prominent in the list of winners at the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting. Peter the Great and Axworthy blood is very marked in the fine three-year-old Ringtrue, the only horse who scored more than one win at the Auckland gathering, and he affords another illustration of the famous “ Golden Cross ’’ strain. Nelson Bingen, by Bingen 2min 61sec, from Suzette Baron, was represented by two winners, Aircraft and Nelson Pirate, while two of his sons, Nelson Derby and Nelson Tasker, each had one winner, namely, Willie Derby and Lucky Love. Peter Moko, son of Peter the Great and Mrs Nash, sired the winners Moko Girl and Francis Lincoin, and the Peter the Great blood is also prominent on the maternal side in Ringtrue and Impromptu. In addition to Ringtrue, the Axworthy line was represented by Worthy Light, who is by Worthy Bond 2min 6:] sec, a sen of Axworthy. TIME IMPROVEMENTS.

The course at Alexandra Park, Epsom, was in fairly good order for this period of the year when racing commenced at the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting, but it cut up as the day progressed and became heavy after the rain began to fall. However, the winners and place-getters in three of the slow-class races went better than handicapped to do, the most notable improvement being shown by Lucky Love, who went 12sec faster than his handicap. Details of the improvements are as follows:

AUCKLAND PERFORMER. The Auckland Trotting Club's winter meeting concluded the calendar of light harness events for the 1933-1934 period as far as the North Island is concerned. and it can be said that the season's operations provided tbeir quota of good horses who, no doubt, will eventuallv come south to compete in classes that will be more suitable to them than those available in the north. Probably the horse that has attracted most notice is the three-year-old Chan-

cellor, who created a big impression in Canterbury last season, when he came south to contest the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, in which event he ran third, after an unfortunate beginning. In the meantime Chancellor has trained on to fulfil the expectations of his admirers, and although he has on several occasions given a taste of his ability at Epsom, he vfras seen at his best at the recent meeting of the Auckland Trotting .Club when he played with a field of older and well-performed horses. This season Chancellor has won six races, including the Great Northern Derby, and a two miles race at Claudelands, and competent sportsmen who are best placed to estimates the possibilities of Chancellor state he is entitled to rank among the highest grade three-year-olds New Zealand has produced. He is one of the best productions of the American horse, Peterwah. His dam, Black Gold, is a sister to the dual Auckland Trotting Cup winner, Gold Jacket. Enawah, who was a high-class pacer by Peterwah, was bred similarly to Chancellor, her dam, Lady Ena, being by Gold Bell. TROTTING FIXTURES. July 7—Marlborough T.C. (at New Brighton). July 26—Waimate D.H.C. July 26. 28—Greymouth T.C. July 28—South Canterbury H.C. August 11. 15. 17—N.Z.M.T.C. August 25—Auckland T.C. September I—New Brighton T.C. September B—Wellington T.C.

TIMARU TROTS. Section of Members Dissatisfied. (Special to the “ Star.”) TIMARU, July 2 A section of the members of the Timaru Trotting Club is dissatisfied with the policy adopted by the committee in two matters recently discussed. and a letter has been sent to the secretary. Mr H. H. Fraser, requesting him to call a special general meeting. Recently three members of the committee—Messrs H. F. Morton, H. E. !D. Willcox and R. G. Kilgour—resigned, and the manner in which the vacancies have heen filled is one of the reasons for requisitioning the meeting. The letter which lias been sent to the secretary is as follows: “In terms of Rule 16, you are hereby requested to call a special general meeting of the club to discuss the undermentioned business, which will be submitted in the form of an appropriate resolution: — “ (1) That it is contrary to the best interests of the club that its liquid assets should be pledged for the purpose of the erection of a publican s “ (2) That the action of the committee in filling vacancies on the committee on the eve of the annual general meeting was unnecessary and interfered with the rights of members to elect such representatives as they may desire.”

Members of the club elaborated P» the letter, stating that there could have been no objection if the vacancies had been filled when the three resignations were received, but that it was decidedly unfair that the appointments should be made just before the annual meeting, especially as one of the new members would not be requi- .d to stand for re-election at the annual meeting.

The requisition has been signed by ten members, and. according to the rules, the meeting must be held between July 9 and July 16 inclusive.

1} MILES. ImproveHep Time ment. Ringtrue 2.56 2.52 4 s Red Hope .... 2.59 2.55 3-5 3 2-5s Compass .... 2.59 2.56 3s n MILES. Nelson Pirate . 3.43 3.36 2-5 6 3-5s Gala Day .... 3.40 3.33 3-5 6 2-5s Manna’s Son .. 3.42 3 .39 4-5 2 l-5s Lucky Love .. 3.45 3.33 12s Nelson Luvan . 3.45 3.34 11s Aircraft 3.41 3.32 2 5 8 3-5s