TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

@IU®I1I11I1®SIIS1IS1IDISS)(S®1SISISF DOMINATIONS for the Greymouth Trotting Club’s meeting will close to-day at 9 p.m. * * * 3k Acceptances for the trotting races to be decided at the Hororata Racing Club’s meeting are due to-day. *• * sic sje To-day nominations will close for the Winton, Ashburton. Wairarapa and Greyxnouth Trotting Club’s meetings. * * * * Nominations for the Westport Trotting Club’s midsummer meeting will close on Wednesday at 9 p.m. * Jfc 3’fi ;{c Nominations for the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s summer meeting will close on Thursday next, at noon. Final forfeits for the New Zealand Champion Stakes, 1934, are due with the Ashburton Trotting Club to-day, at 8 p.m. * * * * Nominations for the trotting events at the Oamaru Jockey Club’s and the Waikouaiti Racing Club’s meetings are due to-day. FINES OF £2O. At a meeting of the Judicial Committee of the New Brighton Trotting Club on Saturday, it was decided to fine E. J. Smith, driver of Sea Gift in the Mace Memorial Handicap, £2O, for striking F. Holmes with the whip. It was further resolved to fine F. Holmes £2O under rule 360 for interference. F. Holmes has lodged an appeal. SOLID RACE. Although under a cloud, the three-year-old filly, Bitter Sweet, trotted a solid race to finish second to Win Thru in the second division of the Trial Handicap at New Brighton on Saturday. She is a good looking filly, and has nice action. It is only a question of her becoming seasoned to be a profitable member of the Durbar Lodge stable. FEW BACKED HER. Chiming Wrack would have paid a sensational dividend had she won instead of finishing second in the first division of the Trial Handicap at New Brighton on Saturday. She had only £3 IQs invested on her chance on the totalisator. She began from 84yds behind in a field of thirteen, and trotted the mile and a half in 3min 30 l-ssec. She is on a 3min 42sec mark and should soon be led in a winner. HOW IRAQ LOST. It is not usual for a smart beginning to cost a horse a race, but it was so with Iraq in the Wainoni Handicap at New Brighton on Saturday. He began from 12yds behind and had fourteen horses in front of him. He began so fast that he was soon in the middle of the limit horses, and they began to break and swerve all round him. While this was going on Iraq was losing ground. He was well back at the mile post, and he flew from there to the winning’ post, and with another two strides to go he would have won. He was very unlucky to be beaten. VERY CONSISTENT. Betty Wrack is piling up a record for consistency. In her last eighteen starts she has been sixteen times in the money, her record being two wins, eight seconds and six thirds. She has registered 2min 12 3-ssec for one mile, and she has a race %cord over two miles of 4min 29 4-ssec. On Saturday she covered the two miles in 4min 3Q 3-ssec off a 4min 40sec mark, yet she had to be content with second place. She has a wonderful disposition, and despite the hard eighteen contests she has had within a year she keeps on improving and comes up smiling every time. ENGAGED AT EPSOM. The following Canterbury trainers have horses engaged at the Auckland Trotting Club’s Christmas meeting: J. J. Kennerley, Mataunga, Social Pest; G. J. Barton, Indianapolis, Bracken, Rongomai, Carl, Compass and Tempest; C. S. Donald, Wahnooka, Harvest Dillion, Blondie, Arabond, Lindbergh, Mocast; E. F. C. Hinds, Harold Logan. Colonial Boy, Billy Sundy; R. B. Berr} r , Grace M’Elwyn; W. J. Doyle, Subsidy; S. A. Edwards, Sure; M. B. Edwards, Smoke Screen, Gamble; P. Brown, Roi l’Or; L. A. Maidens, Blue Mountain; R. J. Humphreys, Muriel de Oro. AGILE’S IMPROVEMENT. G. S’. Smith deserves a pat on the back for the improvement he has effected in Agile. From a peppery iuveline, Smith has made Agile a solid pacer, who in addition to possessing exceptional speed has now shown that he can stay. Prior to the New Brighton Trotting Club’s meeting, Agile was regarded as a sprinter, but the decisive manner in which he won the Mace Memorial Handicap on Saturday removes all doubt as to his staying qualities. He had to travel fast all the way, the first half-mile being covered in lmin 7 2-ssec, mile in 2min 16sec, mile and a half in 3min 22sec, and the full journey in 4min 30 l-ssec, on a course that was slow. Agile is a highly-bred gelding. He is by Rey de Oro, while his dam, Bundura is a daughter of the American-bred sire Harold Dillon, and the American-bred mare Bonny Jenny. A SUCCESSFUL MEETING. The summer meeting of the New Brighton Trotting Club provided useful evidence of form for the holiday meetings, and the efforts of numerous promising pacers and trotters contributed to the afternoon’s entertainment. The tit-bit of the meeting was the duel staged by Gamble and Recess over the last furlong and a half of the Bowhill Handicap. The manner in which Gamble responded to punishment, was a tribute to the gameness of the three-year-old. Notwithstanding his magnificent effort, he was lucky to beat Recess, for she was half a length in front, and holding Gamble when she tripped twenty yards from the winning post. The weather w r as fine, but overcast, and the course and grounds were in excellent order. The management of the meeting was eminently satisfactory, and the club should show a profit over the day’s business. The totalisator turnover was £12,895 10s, as against £13,349 10s for the corresponding day last year. TROTTING FIXT-L) R ES. December 15 —Hororata T.C. ' ’ December 26—Wairarapa T.C. December 26—Ashburton T.C. December 26, 27—Westport T C. December 26—Gore T.C. December 27, 29, 31—Auckland T. C. December 29—Winton T.C. December 29—Westland R.C.