TROTTING.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18803, 26 November 1932, Page 17 (Supplement)

TROTTING.

(By “Padlock). MEETINGS AHEAD. December 3 —Waikato. December 10—New Brighton. December 26 —Ashburton. December 2G—Gore. December 26—Wairarapa. December 26, 27 —Westport. December 27, 29, 31—Auckland. December 29—Winton. December 30—ReeSion. THE WAIKATO CLUB. TO RACE ON SATURDAY. On Saturday next the Waikato Club will hold Its Summer meeting at Claudelands. Acceptances, which are published In this Issue, arc such that fields will be well represented, not only in numbers, but in quality. With form well advanced at this period of the season, tho standard of tho raolng at the club’s well appointed headquarters will be very high and, given fine weather, a large and representative attendance can be expeoted. The Wairarapa Club. The Wairarapa Trotting Club’s Summer meeting, which will be held on Boxing Day, is likely to draw support from this district to a good programme. Nominations for all events will close at 8 p.m. on Monday, •November 28, with the secretary (Mr' H. Mortenson), P.O. box 45, telephone 92, Carterton. Will Be In Demand. Brentlight, if produced in the Waikato Handicap, will be a prominently supported candidate. The Matchlight gelding, who is in R. D. Kennerley’s team at Te Axvamutu, has shown very consistent form in his racing on northern tracks this season. Direct Morning beat Brentlight easily at Claudelands at the Spring meeting, when 12yds separated them and again took his measure, but by a narrow margin, at the Auckland meeting, xvhen giving Brentlight 36yds. Brentlight 13 now much more favourably placed compared with his conqueror, and from 12yds In the two mile race on Saturday, he looks like being one of the hardest to head off. A World’s Record. On October 14 at Lexington, Ky„ U.S.A., in an effort to beat her own record of 2min, The Marchioness lowered the world’s record for three-year-old trotting fillies to I min 59Jseo. The mile also equalled the world’s record for three-year-old trotters, held by her brother Protector. The Marchioness was driven by her trainer, William F. Caton, of Syracuse, who rated her as follows: —Quarter mile In 304 sec, half mile 59fsec, six furlongs 1 min 282ee0, the final quarter being done In 3045e0. The fastest two furlongs were from the half mile to ttye six furlongs post, that quarter being timed in 29seo. The previous record for three-year-old fillies, lmin 594 seo, was held Jointly by the sisters Hanover’s Bertha and Charlotte Hanover. As Protector, The Marchioness, Hanover’s Bertha, and Charlotte Hanover are all by Peter Volo, this sire oan claim the four fastest three-year-old trotters of the present time. Margaret Arion, dam of Proteotor and The Marchioness, is by Guy Axworthy from Margaret Parrish, so is a sister to Guy Parrish and to Arion Guy, the sire of Arion Axworthy, two stallions now in New Zealand.

Speedy, but Erratlo. If Brent Zolock is brought up from Feildlng, the presence of W. Hughes’ charge will add interest to the Farewell Handicap, the sprint race at the Waikato meeting. Brent Zolock is speedy, but his form has not been consistent. The Brent Locanda gelding went off smartly In the Remuera Handicap, the sprint race on the concluding day of the Auckland Club’s Spring meeting and nothing had a ■chance with him on that ten furlong journey. Although back on 36 yards, he would only require to move away, smartly to be in the Issue on Saturday as there is no doubt the chestnut, who was also entered in the two mile raoe, is speedy. Todd Lonzia. In referring to the performances of Todd Lonzia at the recent Metropolitan meeting a southern writer states: —• “Todd Lonzia was the outstanding young trotter at the Metropolitan meeting, and it is a tribute to the skill of D. Withers that the gross stallion has Trained on soundly to make a name for himself in the best company. As a two-year-old, when trained by A. Cox, Todd Lonzia was sent a mile against time at Forbury Park, and, despite a break at the end of three furlongs, he made a new record of 2:22 2-5. Cox still maintains that Todd Lonzia was capable of breaking 2.20 as a two-year-old. With another year over his head Todd Lonzia gave further evidence of his class by putting up a record of 3.26 3-5 for a mile and a half which still stands as a three-year-old record. At the latest meeting lie xvon over Die same distance in 3.18 3-5, which is only one-fifth of a second worse Ilian Die record of Stanley T., and the latter did net win. Dis latest achievement is a hollow victory over Wrackler and Huon Voyage, and a two-mile record of 4.29 1-5. He was receiving long starts from these, but heat them pulling up. Todd Lonzia is an entire son of Lorene’s Todd (imp.) from Daphne Dean, by Copa de Oro (imp) from Daphne Wilkes, by Harold Wilkes (by Quincoy) from Daphne, by Prince Imperial —Peri, by Imperious (imp.) from Fairey, who was by a thoroughbred horse.