TROTTING NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 12

TROTTING NOTES.

m m m si is m ea a is © © m is m i*i m is ea m * for the trotting events at the Gore Racing Club’s summer meeting are due this evening. * * * * Acceptances for the New Brighton 1 Trotting Club’s autumn meeting are due to-morrow, at noon. He ajc Nominations for the Wellington Trotting Club’s March meeting will close to-morrow, at 8 p.m. * * * * Nominations for the trotting events at the Cromwell Jockey Club’s annual meeting will ciose on Friday evening. * * He * Nominations for the New Zealand Sapling Stakes. 1936, will close with the secretary of the Ashburton Trotting Club on Monday. He He H< He Entries for the Wyndham Trotting Club’s annual meeting will close on Monday. He He He He Nominations for the Marlborough Trotting Club’s annual meeting are due on Monday. He He He H« The pacing geldings, Denver City and Neeoro, died recently. They had not raced for a long time owing to unsoundness. * * * * The latest additions to N. C. Price’s team is Chancellor Wilkes, who won a novice event on the West Coast some time ago. Chancellor Wilkes is an aged pacer and has been leased from his owner by Mr B. F. Spiers. ON TOP. By his two successes at Epsom on Saturday, F. J. Smith is now at the top of the successful drivers’ list, having driven twenty winners this season. The Addington horseman, J. Fraser, jun., is second with eighteen victories to his credit. * * H= H= Iraq was worked over a mile and a half in saddle on the grass course at New Brighton on Saturday. He was not out to break the watch, but he gave a very solid display, and unwound a smart burst of speed when asked to do so over the last hundred y-ards. His performance showed that he is capable of pacing comfortably under saddle. GOOD WORK OUT. Bingen Palm gained more friends for his approaching engagements by the resolute manner in which he paced two miles on the grass course at New Brighton on Saturday. He trailed Eureka Boy all the way. Eureka Boy made the pace very solid over the last mile and a half, but Bingen Palm was still going well, and could have done better at the finish had his driver desired. Bingen Palm has received a thorough preparation, and such a fine stayer will be in his element over two miles on the big grass course at New Brighton. CONSISTENT.

The pacer Ringtrue won the Papakura Handicap at Epsom on Saturday very easily. Those who knew of Plain Pearl’s difficulty in negotiating the Auckland track were confident that Ringtrue would beat her. Southern sportsmen contend that he would have beaten her under any circumstances. Ringtrue’s form displays more class than anything Plain Pearl has done, but she will win her share of prizemoney7, especially over longer journeys than she competed in on Saturday 7. WON DOUBLE. The Waikato horseman. R. A. M’Millan, signalled his return to the sulky 7 by winning two races at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday. Me drove Ringtrue when he won the Papakura Handicap and piloted Prince Pedro, who started an outsider in the betting and annexed the Moss Davis Memorial Handicap. M’Millan had not driven for about a year owing to an accident with which he met. He drove Ringtrue for J. T. Paul, who is laid aside with injuries he received at the Auckland Trotting Club’s Christmas meeting. Ringtrue is a four-y 7 ear-old chestnut horse by Travis Axworthy 7 from the celebrated matron Bertha Bell, the dam of Great Bingen. Peter Bingen, Great Peter and Worthy Bingen. SEVENTEEN WINS. Worthy Light won his seventeenth race in three years, when he led the field home in the Otahuhu Handicap at Epsom on Saturday. Worthy Light visited Addington in November, and by winning the Courtenay Handicap he qualified for the Auckland Trotting Cup, in which he ran second to Roi l’Or. He was successful in a similar race on the concluding day of the northern club’s Christmas meeting and took a 4min 26sec mark, which maybe the limit of the next New Zealand Trotting Cup, but by winning on Sat urday he is now on 4min 25sec. Worthy Light is a very compact gelding by the American sire Worthy Bond from Illumination, and is owned by Messrs C. E. and H. L. Lovegrove. He is a clever pacer on any 7 kind of track and is irreproachable over any distance. AMERICAN SUPPORT. In a recent issue of the “ Horseman and Fair World ” (U.S.A.) portions of that journal’s “ Record ” article dealing with the claims of Indianapolis to world’s honours were included in an editorial. As pointed out in the “Record” article, the world’s pacing record for two miles is credited to Dan Patch, who paced two miles against time in 4min ITsec, but in an actual race, from a standing start, Indianapolis did 4min 15fsec in winning the recent New Zealand Trotting Cup. The American journal, in very fairly summing up the situation, remarked: “ During a number of past seasons Australian harness horse interests have disputed the right for positions in the tables of, world’s championship performers as published in the United States. So far none are listed in official tabulations. Whether past performances have been rejected because of discrepancies in the manner of procedure of competition, or through lack of official records to substantiate claims, is not known. World’s records are a matter of international concern, and if those of foreign origin are established upon an equitable basis, and all factors pertaining to them are comparative, theft* inclusion in official tables is most logical.”

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