TROTTING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VI, Issue 289, 6 February 1896, Page 11

TROTTING.

OFFICIAL (’AL K 2ST ID A. RTHE AUCKLAND TROTTING CLUB. Durham Street East, August 30th. To the Editor Sporting Review. g IKj —I have been instructed by the Committee of this Club to inform you that your paper has this day been appointed the Official Calendar for trotting clubs in the Provincial district of Auckland. Yours faithfully, C. F. MARK, Secretary.

COMING EVENTS. February 15, Saturday 1 22, Saturday—Otahuhu Trotting Club Summer , ... February 28, Friday—Palmerston North Metropolitan T.C. Autumn NOMINATIONS. February 15, Thursday—Palmerston North Metropolitan T.C. Autumn HANDICAPS. January 31, Friday—Otahuhu Trotting Club Summer February 15, Saturday—Palmerston North Metropolitan T.C. Autumn February 17, Monday—Otahuhu Trotting Club bummer ACCEPTANCES. February 7, Friday—Otahuhu Trotting Club Summer February 19, Wednesday—Otahuhu Trotting Club SumFebruary 1 22, Saturday—Palmerston North Metropolitan T.C. Autumn

Mr Jorgenson has sold his trotting pony Bobby Burns to Mr James AVright, of Christchurch, the price paid being £25. Rotheram has changed hands, Mr Maloney having disposed of the horse to a well-known resident of the Wairarapa. The price paid was £45. The new owner’s intention is to use Rotheram as a buggy horse, and he will therefore not race any more.

The report of the director of the French Haras or National Stock Farms, for the year 1894, shows that during the year 140,045 mares were served by 2,636 sires, paying into the treasury a sum of £44,296. Adding to this number that of other sires, approved by the State and owned by private parties, 200,040 mares were served in 1894.

A very clever horseman makes the following good point on the indirect advantages of advertising. He owned some fine young stock by a really good sire who was, however, comparatively unknown. “ The trouble was.” he said, “ that the owner had failed to appreciate the value of printer’s ink—had spent little or nothing in advertising—and really very little was known of his horse outside of the neighbourhood in which he was owned and stood for service. 1 liked the horse both individually and by breeding, and sent my mares to him for a couple of seasons, and have several colts by him that are good lookers and are promising for speed. I reared these colts to sell, and I ought, all things being equal, to dispose of them without trouble at fair prices, but I am awakened to the fact that I have been seriously handicapped by breeding to a horse whose merits are little known to the public, and I am done with patronising that kind. I prefer paying a higher fee for a horse of less merit, and be sure that he is kept constantly before the public.” Here is a valuable lesson which owners of high-class sires should take to heart.