TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20540, 15 February 1935, Page 11

TROTTING NOTES.

S!®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®!* ACCEPTANCES for the New Brighton Trotting Club’s autumn meeting are due on Februaryp 19, at noon. * * * ye Nominations for the trotting events at the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s meeting are due this evening. * * # » Nominations for the Invercargill Trotting Club’s annual meeting will close to-da>', at 5 p.m. * * * * Acceptances for the trotting events at the Gore Racing Club’s summer .meeting are due on February 18. * * * * The Dunedin Cup and Metropolitan Handicap winner at Forbury-, Wild Guy, has been recommissioned after a few days’ respite. He has built up in condition, and is a very much improved hofse. MAY STAY. It is safe to state that Eureka Boy has never been as robust and as fit as he is at present. Fie has stood tip to a solid preparation, and he has thrived on the work allotted him. His track deeds have been interspersed with swimming exercise, and he is absolutely free from soreness. Fie is engaged in the Denton Handicap to be decided over two miles at New Brighton next week. Though he has failed badly over two miles in all previous attempts he is certain to act better over the concluding part of a journey next week than ever he has done before. * * * * The Auckland Trotting Club will hold its February meeting at Epsom to-morrow and on Wednesday. IN GOOD CONDITION. Silver Watch has been getting through plenty of solid work at Epsom, and the grey gelding is none the worse for his unsuccessful efforts at the Auckland Trotting Club’s Christmas fixture. Silver Watch is one of the most promising improvers trained in Auckland, and he will only have to race up to form to hold good prospects in the Mount Albert Handicap to-morrow. HAS GOOD PROSPECTS. Possessing more speed than the average improver, Rayon d’Or would have a bright record but for his erratic barrier manners. He is reported to be going particularly well in his work at Takanini, and he is to fulfil his engagement in the Mount Albert Handicap at Epsom. Fie is the only horse on the limit, and providing F. J. Smith can induce the son of Rey de Oro to leave the mark correctly, whatever beats him should win.

Although Flome Brew has not won a race for a long time, she has consistently gone good races, and she only requires a little luck to soon join the winning list again. Home Brew recorded one of her best efforts when she finished third on the concluding day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s Christmas meeting in the Park Handicap to Gold Dredge and Rare Rey. On that occasion she registered 2min 51 4-ssec. The daughter of Our Thorpe is down to compete in the Waiheke Handicap at Epsom to-morrow, and she would only have to repeat her last effort to have a great chance of success. WILL BE SUPPORTED. , Rare Rey has been racing very consistently of late, and the son of Rey de Oro and Roj r al Empress cannot be left out of calculations in his engagements at the Auckland meeting, which will open to-morrow. Fie has not received the best of the running in his last couple of races, otherwise a success would most likely have been credited to him. To-morrow he figures among the acceptors for the Park Handicap off 36>-ds, and a reasonably smart beginning would see him prominent at the finish. L. F. BERKETT’S TWO HORSES. The Nelson trotting trainer, L. F. Berkett, has arrived at Epsom with his horses Raydus and Plain Pearl, who are to compete at to-morrow’s meeting of the Auckland Trotting Club- The trip north was made b> T steamer, and the two horses arrived in fairly good order. Ra>-dus, a seven3 r ear-old gelding by Drusus—Lady Raymond, has previously raced at Epsom, and in February, 1933, ridden by L. Laver, won the Farewell Handicap, the last saddle race run at Epsom. At Addington last season, Raydus won the August saddle race, paying a dividend of over two score. lie visited Auckland again last February, failing to show any form at two miles, but gaining a minor place in the sprint each day. Later at Forbury Park he won the James Memorial Flandicap, going 4min 49 2-ssec on a heavy track, and at Oamaru won a mile and a quarter. At the Wellington special meeting he was runner-up to Indianapolis in the Dominion Handicap, and filled a similar place behind Arethusa in the Farewell Handicap. He has done very little racing this season, being unplaced in each start at Addington in August. With the exception of two races at Wellington in the spring, Plain Pearl has done her racing on the West Coast of the South Island, where she has had a good measure of success. Plain Pearl is a big, plain-looking six-3-ear-old mare by Wrack from Pearl Pointer, a daughter of Pearl Child, who produced good performers, Sea Pearl, Nicoya and White Satin. It may be somewhat against Plain Pearl that she has done most of her racing on dirt tracks, and all of it the reverse way to the Auckland track. This change has previously proved the undoing of good horses from the West Coast, and last February G. R. Kearns’s Admiral Wrack failed badl)' at Epsom. Plain Pearl had her first run the right-handed way at Epsom on Tuesday last, and, while she was impressive in the straight, did not appear to be quite comfortable on the turns. TROTTING FIXTURES. February 16, 20—Auckland T.C. February 20, 21—Gore R.C. February 23—New Brighton T.C. March 1, 2—lnvercargill T.C. March 2—Wellington T.C. March 2—Banks Peninsula R.C. March 8, 9—Cromwell J C. March 9—Marlborough T.C. March 9—Timaru T.C. March 13—Wyndham T.C. March 16—Cheviot T.C. RACING FIXTURES. February 14. 16—Dunedin J.C. February 20. 21—Gore R.C. February 21—Tolaga Bay J.C. February 22. 23 Woodville DJC. February 23, 25 ; —Te A roll a J.C. February 27—Opunake R.C. February 28—Waipa R.C. March 2—Banks Peninsula R.C. March 2—Napier Park R.C. March 2—Franklin R.C.