TROTTING

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20447, 27 October 1934, Page 17

TROTTING

ACCEPTANCES for the New Zea land Trotting Cup are due on Tuesday next, at noon * - * * * Acceptances for the first day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s spring meeting will close on Tuesday, at noon. * * * * Nominations for the Forbur>' Park Trotting Club’s spring meeting will close on Thursday, November 1, at 5 p.m. * * * * After breaking at the start, and cantering for half a furlong, Nell Yolo won the Hillsborough Handicap at the recent meeting at Auckland. It was a mile and a half race and her official time for the journey was 3min 22sec. STILL FAVOURITE Indianapolis is a model of fitness after his race at Oamaru, where his performance strengthened his position as favourite for the New Zealand Trotting Cup. * * * * The record sum of £15,232 15s was invested on the totalisators at the West ern Australian Trotting Association’s meeting held in honour of the visit of the Duke of Gloucester, and the attendance was officially estimated at 13,712. ANOTHER FOR EUROPE. Another American high-light in the three-year-old trotter Brown Berry, 2min lsec, has been purchased by a European sportsman. It is a noticeable iact that none of the European countries ever buy a pacer from America. * * * Never in the history of trotting has a handicap field of horses received such a reception as that accorded the various candidates as they entered the birdcage preparatory to collecting their drivers and going out to do their preliminaries for the Weston Handicap at Oamaru. The huge crowd assembled on the lawn and renewed handclapping and cheering until the candidates had paced down the course. Harold Logan was specially selected for an extra cheer, but the interest and enthusiasm displayed made it plain that the public appreciate seeing the best horses perform. GONE TO THE DOGS, The Australian sportsman. Mr Syd Walton, has won fourteen races with one dog on the Marbrynong coursing track, and so interested is he in his new sport that he would only consider Walla Walla or Harold Logan as a medium of exchange. lie reckons that there is more money in dogs than

The Auckland sportsman, Mr E. J Parkes, has purchased the pacing geld ing Nimbus, who in future will be trained by L. M’Mahon at Whangarei tXimbus was only recently acquired b> *Mr C. Moran, and in his only two out ings in Mr Moran’s colours he has finished third. Nimbus should wir raoes at Epsom. ABOUT ROI LOR. Rioi L’Or is being named as the mo.‘,ct likely candidate to challenge Indianapolis and. the field generally for first honours in the New Zealand Trotting Cup. The gelding's ability tc go twto miles has been forcibly demon strated on three occasions when be covered the distance in a shade better than 4knin 15sec. Roi L’Or,is on 36yds behind in the New Zealand Trotting Cup, aad Indianapolis is on 12yds behind, wfhich means that if Roi L’Or is on his best behaviour he will make Indianapolis pace the two miles in better than 4min 16sec to beat him On the figures quoted Roi L’Or’s admirers halve sound reasons for expecting him to test Indianapolis severely. * * * sjs The unvhoppled American pacei Single G, stfre of Dick Reynolds, Imir 59isec, put up his record .of Imir; 58£sec when he was thirteen years old That was in 1923. He was not retired from racing until 1927, and his firs! foals arrived when he was eighteen years old. Single G-started racing as a three-year-old,, and prior to his sixteenth year he had won 98 out of 153 races. To do this he took part in 431 heats, of whicfli he was first home on 202 occasions. -Single G is another instance of a champion, and a cast-iron one at that, being the progeny of very elderly parents in Anderson Wilkes and Little Gyp. Little Gyp was 22 years old when Swingle G was foaled, and Anderson Wiikes was 26 years old when mated with Little Gyp. DISAPPOINTING PERFORM ANCE. For a horse who claims engagement in the New Zealand Trotting Cup next month, Impromptu was responsible for an inglorious diisplay at Auckland on Saturday last, the gelding tangling and skipping nearly all the way, to be eventually pullerl up. In the Labour Day Handicap, which was decided on Monday, liya paced a much better race, and, altflaough he eventually finished last, tine earl)- effort of getting up to fourth place with a round to go was too rrrjadh for him. At his .best Impromptu is a brilliant pacer, but he will ha vie to improve upon his Epsom performances to have a chance in the New Zealand Trotting Cup.

WAR BUOY v. CHANCELLOR. One of the promised tit-bits at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s spring meeting will be the meeting of Chancellor and War Buoy. Both four-year-olds are engaged in the Empire Handicap and in the Victoria Handicap on the first day of the November gathering at Addington. The Empire Handicap is a mile and a quarter event, and both horses are on the limit. The Victoria Handicap is a fwo-mile race, and in a 4min 35sec class Chancellor has to give War Buoy 12yds. Whichever race they meet in, a line should be obtainable on the merits of the pair. "They are outstanding pacers for their age. and keen support is likely to be accorded both horses. Southerners, no doubt, will plump for War Buoy and the Northerners are just as confident that Chancellor is the better four-year-old. MIGHT HAVE BEEN EIGHT. The Takanini trainer F. J.' Smith harnessed up five winners at the recent Auckland meeting, but with any luck he would have improved upon his tally. On the first day Wee Machine would have nearly won the Parnell Handicap but for breaking early in the race and losing fully 40yds, as he was only beaten by a little over a length. Later in the day Canton was stopped at the start by Wiriwhata and lost a lot of ground and then ran Manna’s Son to a length. On the second day, but for a bad beginning, War Girl would have nearly won the October Handicap.