TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

! ACCEPTANCES for the trotting events at the Wairio Jockey Club’s jubilee meeting are due to-morrow. * * * s:; Golden Eagle was only produced once at the Auckland Trotting Club's I meeting, the daughter of Nelson Bingen finishing third to Ganton and Matunga in the Selby Handicap on the first day. The race would do her a great deal of good, and she is one of the most likely improvers of the meeting. A DISAPPOINTMENT.. Realty was one of the disappointments of the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting, the bay gelding failing to reveal any dash at all in his engagements. Realty is a hard horse to train and likes the sting out of the ground, and when he strikes a softer track the son of Real Guy may make amends for the failures. TRAVELLING BY AIR. On Sunday F. Holmes, Mrs Holmes and Mrs F. G. Holmes travelled to Hokitika in an aeroplane. The trip occupied two hours and a half, and two air pockets were encountered. When the machine ran into the first pocket Mrs Holmes said that she thought they “ were gone,” but when she realised that it was part of the conditions she did .pot mind so .much when a second pocket was encountered. The party intended to return by ’plane to Christchurch on Monday evening, but the conditions were unsuitable, so the> r came back by train on Tuesday. SMOKE SCREEN. The Canterbury pacer Smoke Screen disappointed by his failure to race solidly at the Auckland Trotting Club’s Royal meeting, and S. A. Edwards did not bring him back to Christchurch. Smoke Screen proved himself a good beginner in his races, but lacked stamina, and was always well beaten when it came to solid racing. He has been turned out for a spell at Papatoetoe and may later do some more racing in Auckland. * * * * Prior to the Auckland Trotting Club’s Christmas meeting nothing had been working better than the chestnut trotter Mountain Sun, but the gelding failed to trot up to expectations and was never seen in any of his three engagements. Mountain Sun possesses a brilliant turn of speed for a horse in his class, but does not always go steadily; otherwise his record would be a much better one. This was not his best form, and when the class is a shade weaker he is likely to make amends. CUP WINNER. Roi I’Or was present at Addington yesterday morning, where he was driven by his trainer, A. Brown, in a trial over two miles. He was accompanied by Margaret Chenault over the first two furlongs, when she was pulled up, and she returned to the mile and a quarter post to assist Roi l’Or over the last ten furlongs. The track was in good order, and Roi l’Or did his work two sulky widths from the inside rail. He reeled off the first halfmile in lmin Ssec, mile in 2min 18sec, mile and a half in 3min 24sec, miie and three-quarters in 3min 57sec, and the full distance in 4min 33sec. The Auckland Cup wanner looks remarkably well and should be at the top of his form for his important engagements at Wellington on Saturday. GLENROSSIE IS WELL. Glenrossie is in the public eve for the Summer Handicap to be decided at Hutt PaVk on Saturday, where he is trained. Glenrossie has one win, a second, and.two thirds to his credit this season. At Addington in August he won over ten furlongs in 2min 39 3-ssec, and in November ran third at ten furlongs in 2min 41 4-ssec. and second at two mil-is in 4min 17 3-s?ec. He J equalled this time when he finished third at Auckland to Worthy Light and Roi l’Or, when conceding 24 yards to the former, and being in receipt of 36 yards from the latter. The winner w’on by half a length, with Glenrossie three-quarters of a length further back. On his recent form, he must have a chance on Saturday. SUMMER HANDICAP. The principal race, the Summer Handicap, at the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday, should furnish an interesting contest on similar lines to the Auckland Royal Trotting Cup. as excepting Sunny Morn, Silver de Oro and Mountain Dell, nearly all the horses listed competed in" the Epsom event. Blue Mountain, third in the Auckland Cup, and Glenrossie. third in the President’s Handicap, are meeting Worthy Light in 12 yards better terms than when he finished in front of them at Epsom, but the form of Worthy Light indicates that he will again give them trouble. Auburn Lad will require to race better than at Auckland, but. like Indianapolis, who failed badly in both two mile races, he may be better suited bv the lefthanded course at Hutt Park. Impromptu, who should be benefited by recent racing, should add interest to the race. Lindbergh almost invariably races well at Hutt Park and may create a surprise. On Auckland form horse to attract most attention is Roi l’Or. who is meeting Worthv Light on the same terms as when he beat him in the Auckland Cup, while he is conceding the other Epsom runners the same start as when he defeated them in the President’s Handicap, in which he was a close second to Worthy Roi lOr may establish new figures, under favourable track conditions. The three newcomers should invest the race with further interest, but three to claim attention at this stage are Roi I’Or, Worthy Light and Blue Mountain. TROTTTXO FIXTT'RKS,

January 11, 12—Vincent J.C. January 12—Wellington T.C Jan, iary 19—New Zealand Metropolitan January 19—Wairio J.C. January 26—Tlmaru T.C. January 31, February 2—Forbury Park February 6—Tapanul R.C. RACING FIXTURES. January 10, 12—Thames J.C. January 11, 12—Vincent J.C. January 19—Wairio J.C. January 22—Ashhurst-Pohangina R C. January 22, 24, 26—Wellington R.C. January 26, 29—Takapuna J.C. January 31, February 2—Wanganui January 31, February 2—Wairoa RC February 2—Matamata R.C. February 6—Tapanui R.C. February 7. 9—Poverty Bay T.C. February 7, 9—Taranaki J.C. February 9—Canterbury J.C. February 9, 11, Rotorua R.C February 13, 14—Egmont R.C. February 14, 16—Dunedin J.C.