TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20362, 20 July 1934, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

for the trotting events to be decided at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meeting will close this evening at eight o’clock. * ❖ * * Nominations for the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s August meeting will close on Monday, at noon. * * * * A special passenger train will leave Christchurch for Greymouth and Hokitika on Saturday, July 28, at 6.10 a.m.. and will arrive at Greymouth in time for passengers to attend the second day of the Greymouth Trotting Club’s winter meeting. The return train will leave Greymouth at 11.53 p.m. and is due at Christchurch at 5.29 a.m. on Sunday morning. SINGLE POOL SYSTEM. The officials of the Greymouth Trotting Club are to be congratulated upon their decision to revert to the single pool principle of betting, and two dividends. The change is certain to be well received by a majority of owners, who for a long time have made known their preference for the old method of speculation. CHANGE OF STABLE. The pacing mare, Belinda, has been transferred to E. C. M’Dermott’s stable. She is a very capable mare, but has not raced up to her best form this season. She is by Oinako from Dorothy D. Oinako was a brilliant horse, but had to be carefully handled to get him to do his best. Belinda possesses some of her sire’s characteristics. but if M’Dermott can get the right key to her she will win races, SPLENDID ACCEPTANCES, The Greymouth Trotting Club has received splendid acceptances for its winter meeting, to be held on July 25 arid 28. Of the total number of horses entered, only four declined their engagements. The seven candidates for the principal race, on the first day have been paid up for, and the programme should provide excellent entertainment for the large number of patrons who enjoy trotting on the West Coast. The weather at Greymouth at this period of the season is usual!}- congenial, and the trip one of the most interesting from a scenic point of view in the Dominion. SUCCESSFUL SIRE. In these days it would be treated as a joke if one stated that a prominent pacer that won several races was never registered. Such was the case with Young Irvington, many years ago, who, in addition to being a handsome horse, was one of the first, if not the first, free-legged pacer in New Zealand. He was so clean-gaited that he never wotfe a hopple or boot of any kind. On an indifferent track at Burwood his owner. Mr J. Jarden, drove him a mile in 2min 22sec, which was a great performance in 1898. Young Irvington is now often referred to as the champion sire of brood mares in the Dominion. Among his daughters were the dams of Ribbonwood, Our Thorpe, Ghoai, Fuchsia. Manuka, Silver Princess. Monica, Miss Florrie C., Muretania, Weary, Bright. Woodthorpe Maid, lanto, Rosebery. Lady Child, Inwood and Prince Akwood. TROTTING IN SYDNEY. Trotting is progressing in Sydney, and it would pay the clubs to adopt a bold policy in this matter, states the “ Sydney Referee.” Most of the disadvantages experienced by trotting men can be attributed to the bookmakers, and the majority of Sydney owners and trainers would enthusiastically support the clubs if they decided to make the totalisator the only betting medium on their courses. It is very difficult to back a horse at present and secure reasonable odds. The bookmakers are so well informed that any horse with a winning chance is kept at short odds until it is certain that there is no genuine support forthcoming, and then the price is lengthened to such an extent that his subsequent performance is often investigated by the stewards. LADY FAME’S THREE WINS. Lady Fame’s three wins in the North Islarftl this season, worth £195, and Play Lady’s earnings, £65, together with a minor placing by Transworthy, placed Mr W. Johnstone at the head of the list of Waikato owners with £270.' Bingen Chief, with two firsts and two minor placings, earned £175, while Te Kahu, with two wins and a second, and Jackie Thorpe, with a first and four minor placings, each earned £145. Willie Derby’s first and second were worth £l3O, and the consistent Pukemiro gained £lls for three seconds and two thirds. Kewpie’s Bond and Alexis each collected £IOO, while a solitary win netted Parrish Belle a similar amount’. Of the remaining fourteen horses who contributed to the Waikato total, Tryment, with a first, a second and two thirds, did best with £95. For the Takanini team Wee Machine’s two successes netted £3OO, exclusive of a silver cup attached to the principal race at Cambridge. Worthy Light, for two wins, scored £255, including a silver cup. Kewpie’s King, with two wins and a dead-heat for first, secured £lB5, and Chancellor, who scored his only success at two miles at Claudelands, received £lO5. TROTTING FIXTURES. July 26—Waimate D.H C. * July 25. 2S—Greymouth T.C. July 28—South Canterbury H.C. August 11. 15. 17—N.Z.M.T.C. August 25—Auck lanrl T.C. September I —New Brighton TC September B—Wellington T.C.