TROTTING

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VIII, Issue 375, 30 September 1897, Page 11

TROTTING

OFFICIAL CALENDAR.

NORTH ISLAND TROTTING ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND. Affiliated Clubs to the North Island Trotting Association. Wamp. of Club. Secretary. Tote P’mits. •Auckland T.C C. F. Mark ... 3 Hawke’s Bay T.C. ... W. D. Ireland ... 2 •Palmerston North T.C. C. C. Miles ... ... 2 Wellington T.C Geo. McDonald ... 2 •Johnsonville and Hutt County T.C Geo. Bennett 1 HaweraT.C W. H. Tristram ... 2 •Otahuhu T.C W. Lockhart ... 1 New Plymouth T.C. ... A. A. Ambridge ... 1 Normanby T.C J. Scott ... ... 0 Total Permits 14 •Includes pony racing. ■ 1 * C. C. MILES, Secretary, Palmerston North. UNPAID FORFEIT LIST. NORTH ISLAND CLUBS. Palmerston North T.C.—E. Adeane, Othello, £llss; D. McGregor, Thorp, £3 ss; G. Swan, Paku, £1; S. Cooper, Milkmaid, £2 10s; J. Falloon, Young Berlin, £3; W. McPhail, Tim, £llos ; J. Sutherland, Minnie, £2lss; A. Liddington, Mokoia, £3; P; Kearney, Lazil, £1; W. Parker, Cocktail, £6 10s; A. E. Tutton, Butcher Boy and Lady Warbeck, £3 10s ; W. Hawkins, Pearl andlnvictus, £7 ss. Normanby T.C. —J. Mackie, Maori Jane, £2 15s; F. Price, Gunshot, 15s ; J. Anderson, Daydawn, £3 10s; A. Gillespie, Flossie, £2 15s ; C. Robson, The Turk, 12s ; M. Jones, Sloper, £1 ss; C. Tate, Conway £2 12s, and fine £5; S. W. Buckthorp, Toko,£4 10s; W.Walsh,Timothy, £1 ss; E. Nash, Lulu, £1 ss; N. Davidson, Silver, £llss; G. W. Brown, Piaka, 10s. Hawera T.C.— W. Barnett, Enic, £1 Is ; J. Kimbell, Darkie, £2; W. McPeak, Rubin, £1 17s; T. Munro, Music, £1 2s; A. Robertson, St. James, £llos. Stratford T.C. —T. Munro, £llss; L. Wotson, Comedy, £ll7s 6d ;T. Carrington, The Cob, £lss ;W- Christianson, Lexington £1 ss, and Colorado 15s ; E. J. Barleyman, £l. DISQUALIFICATIONS. Horse Te Horo, otherwise Steadfast, and J. Sullivan, nominator, D. Nyan and J. Forsyth, jockeys—By the Palmerston North Metropolitan T.C.: For life, for ■wrongful entry. . ■Bay mere Wanda, aged, A. J. Keith, rider —By the Greymouth T.C.. on August 13,1995: For life, for wilful and fraudulent mis-statement of entry. Bay mare (pony) Miss Clive, alias Roseleaf, and John Fitzgerald, part owner —By the Wellington T.C., on August 26,1895: During the pleasure of the club, and ordered to refund the stakes paid, for false entry. Wright, owner, during pleasure, and horse Bilbah, for ever—By the New Brighton T.C., for having run under the name of Fagan at Wellington. Geo. Cormick, owner, five years ; horse Here-I-Go, for ever—By the Plumpton Racing and Trotting Club, for wilful misrepresentation and wrongful entry. William H. Marsh, of Christchurch, for fraudulent entry and misdescription of the mare Victorina, otherwise Florence, for life ; also the b m Victorina, aged, for five year?, from January 30, 1896 —By the Wellington T.C. W. Yates, of Woolston, owner, for fraudulent entry and misdescription of the horse Bilbah, otherwise Fagan, for life ; and the br g Bilbah, otherwise Fagan, for ever, by the Wellington T.C. Daniel Munro, for life, in connection with the ringingin case of Fiona at Hawke’s Bay, dating from May 20, 1896 —By the Canterbury Metropolitan Trotting Association. William Voyce, Charles Hammond, Charles Ray, Frank Bull, and the horse Sultan, alias Moody, for life, for ringing in—By the Geraldine T.C. — Henderson, Walter Robertson, H. Beaty, — Williams —By the Tahuna Park T.C. J. Humphries, during pleasure, for using insulting language to the secretary—By the Greymouth T.C. TROTTING RECORDS. NEW ZEALAND. 1 mile—Saddle, Yum Yum, 2min 27}sec, Canterbury T.C., May, 1894; harness, Rita, 2min 30sec, Lancaster Park, April, 1895. 1J miles —Saddle, Commotion, 3min 57see, Timaru, September, 1895. <1 miles—Saddle, Rita, 4min 581 sec, Lancaster Park, November, 1895; harness, Rita, smin 7sec, Tahuna Park, February, 1895. 2J miles—Wizard, 6min 36 3-ssee, Maniototo, February, 1895 ; harness, Berlin Abdallah, 6min 37see, Tahuna Park, February, 1895. 8 miles—Saddle, Spider, 7min 59sec, Maniototo, February, 1895; harness. Specification, 7min 35Jsec, Canterbury T.C., May, 1894. 4 miles —Harness, Specification, IQmin 47sec, Lancaster Park, July, 1894. AUSTRALIAN. 1 mile—Hamess, Fritz, 2min 14 4-ssee, March 4, Moonee Valley, in Inter-Colonial Free-for-all Trot. 2 miles —Harness, Mystery, 4min 56|sec, in match against Osterley. 2 miles —Hamess, Osterley, 7min AMERICAN (in harness). 1 mile—Robert R. Gentry, 2min -Jseo, September 24, 189 2 miles —Greenlander, 4min 32sec, October, 1893. .3 miles —Nightingale, 6min 55|sec. October, 1893. AMERICAN PACING. 1 mile—Joe Patchen, 2min 3sec, Aug. 21 ; Johnß. Gentry 2min 3jsec. 2 miles —Defiance, 4min 47|see, September, 1872. 3 miles —Joe Jefferson, 7min33lsec, November, 1891.

NOTES. At a special meeting of the South Island Trotting Association, held on September 21st, to consider a request from the Canterbury Trotting Club to re-consider the Bed of Stone case, it was decided that the case could not be re-opened. The services of that nicely shaped standard bred trotter La Rue are advertised for this season, the terms being very moderate, namely, five guineas for one mare, and at the rate of four guineas each for two or more mares owned by the same owner. La Rue stands 16 hands 1 inch, and is a bright bay with black points, and besides his handsome appearance his wonderfully good pedigree should commend him to everyone who has a good brood mare. He was foaled in 1889, and is by Campaign, wh® is the son'of Electioneer, without a doubt one of the most successful trot- - Yting stallions the world has ever known. From

the’dam’sside he inherits famous blood also, as he was out of Clara I)., who, besides having a record of 2.49, is sister to that splendid horse Honesty, who, as a two-year-old, scored a record of 2min 25Jsec in America. After that he went to Melbourne and has there made his mark. La Rue is standing at The Pah Farm, Onehunga. The Canterbury Trotting Club is not in good odour just now, especially with that portion of the community who backed Bed of Stone in the Final Handicap, at the last meeting of the Club. Bed of Stone was disqualified by the stewards for being on the unpaid forfeit list, but the owner, T.Cotton, appealed to the South Island Trotting Association, and the appeal was upheld and the race awarded to Bed of Stone. However, this was not sufficient for the stewards of the Canterterbury Club, and they asked the Association to re-open the appeal, which that body promptly refused to do, but the Club has not yet disgorged the Bed of Stone dividends. The backers of Bed of Stone are now naturally irate, and there will probably be a noise if the Club does not come up to the scratch quickly. The series of races between Joe Patchen, Star Pointer “and others,” at Chicago, Cleveland and Columbus, have (states the Spirit of the Times) been watched with keen interest, not only by the partisans of the two horses, who measure them only by their qualities of racing speed, but also by the opposing factions of the trotting-bred versus the pacing-bred pacer. While from the three races we can get a pretty correct line on the relative speed of the horses, the test would have been much more satisfactory had the performance been over the same track, on the same day, with the same driver—the positions, pole and outside.

alternated. At Chicago the fastest heat was in 2:03, Joe Patehen outside. As a horse at a 2:03 gait goes 43 feet in a second, Patchen’s mile was as good as 2:011, for the inside of the track being very hard, Star Pointer carried him very wide going away, and won apparently quite handy. At Cleveland Star Pointer again had the pole and the best heat was in 2:04. Evidently the track did not suit Patchen or his new driver, Geers, had not “ got on to ” his peculiarities of gait. Pointer won easily. Having seen Pointer race at Lexington, Chicago, and Cleveland, I classed among the “ Star Pointer unbeatable crowd.” At Columbus Patchen had the pole. He won the second heat in a close finish in the championship time of 2:011. That heat demonstrated most clearly that 2:011 over one of America’s fastest tracks to be about his limit, as he had the pole and a perfect prompter from start to finish. It also quite as clearly proved that Star Pointer can beat him whenever he draws the pole, as to beat him Patchen was clear out, while Pointer at the pole has every time beaten Patchen with speed in reserve. It also satisfies me that Star Pointer over the Columbus track, at the pole, can beat the two-minute mark ; and, by the way, the 2:011 at Columbus was in fact no better than the mile. Ames (who conditioned him) drove Patchen at Chicago. WELLINGTON NOTES. The trotter Whiskey terminated his career suddenly on Sunday (writes our Wellington correspondent). He bolted with a sulky and sustained injuries which necessitated his destruction. This was bad luck for his owner, Mi' McFadgen.

Jack Taggart has the trotting- stallion VaEa6T= — hilt in the Hutt district this season. By Berlin from Messenger Maid, Vanderbilt is brother 1 to Fraulein, the dam of Fritz.

Mr R. Greer advertises his business as the manufacturer and seller of gents’ shirts in Elliott Street, next to Cousins and Atkins, coachbuilders. The Otago and Wellington papers are at it hammer and tongs over the rough, play at the recent representative match, the former launching out at the players from the Windy City for introducing horse play into the game, and the latter giving the charges an emphatic denial, and stating that the Otagoites mistook the sweeping, determined rushes of the Wellington vanguard for rough play. More will yet be heard of the matter.