GENERAL NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1245, 26 February 1914, Page 14

GENERAL NOTES.

An idea of the magnitude of trotting in America is given by the fact that no less than 400 trotters and 380 pacers won £2,00 or more each during the 1913 season. During the season 99 pacers qualified for the 2.10 list, ten of them being in the 2.5 list. « sis * * The American colt O’Neill (2.7*4), who would have been one of the greatest three-year-olds of his time had he been h|andled as other colts are, is to go to Russia.

Minnie Chimes (2.4%), the American crack, has started 35 times in the last two years and been out of the money but once- She picked up 8185 dollars this year.

Our Southland correspondent writes: The annual meeting of the Southland Trotting Club was held last week, and it was shown that the loss on last season’s working was £ll9, a result brought about by heavy and continuous rain on race day. Despite the loss referred to the club still possess a credit balance, and the members are as determined as ever to carry on until such times as a totalisator permit is available. Last season the club claimed about 230 members, and this total should be largely increased by April 22, the date fixed for the races. The stakes will amount to £255, to which will have to be added a cup valued £lO 10s., to be donated by two well-known local sportsmen, Messrs. H. Stiven and W. E. Taylor. It is very hard to think that a club which can provide stakes of the foregoing dimensions cannot obtain a permit. Southland, which comes next to Canterbury as a trotterproducing province, has only a oneday light harness permit, that of the Gore T.C.