TROTTING

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, 4 June 1914, Page 14

TROTTING

CANTERBURY NOTES.

(By Telegraph—Own Correspondent.>

The winter meeting of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club, which starts on Wednesday (June 3), bids fair to be the most successful ever held on the suburban course. For the eight events on the card, the acceptances total 164, giving an average of a fraction over 20 per race. The class represented in the principal events is decidedly good, and there should be some very interesting racing.

The Auckland-owned horse, Albertorious, will be seen out on the second day of the Canterbury Park meeting. He is reported to have made considerable improvement since going into the American trainer’s (C. James) stable.

That speedy pacing mare Ivy Dillon, has been returned to her owner, who intends indulging her in a lengthy spell. The well-known trainer T. W. Price, junr., is removing to the Hororata district, having purchased the hotel there. I understand he will still keep a few trotting horses in work.

Nordica, who gave so much promise in the early spring, and subsequently went amiss, is all right again, and should perform well at the Canterbury Park meeting.

Imperial Crown, a most prominent young trotter in N. Price’s stable, struck himself recently, and may have to forego his engagements at the Canterbury Park meeting.

Gee Whiz will not be taken to the South Wairarapa meeting, but will be seen out at Canterbury Park instead.

Belle Metal, who won so many races for the late Charles Kerr, has gone into A. Wilson’s stable, while Dr. Chutney, another of Kerr’s charges, is to be put up for sale.

T. Frost has taken up a nice looking three-year-old brother to Huon Drift, by Driftwood —Elsa Huon. The local trotting enthusiast, who races as Mr. J. Dinnett, is importing a well-bred trotting mare from America, which he expects to be delivered here next August.

That fine trotter Red Child, who was one of the late C. Kerr’s team, will in future be trained by A. Pringle at Ashburton. Red Child has been having a spell for some time, but will be raced at the August meeting of the Metropolitan Trotting Club.

With the purpose of making its New Zealand Trottmg Cup the most valuable race ever decided in the Dominion, the Metropolitan Trotting Club has decided to increase the stake money for next November’s contest by 500sovs, thereby bringing its value up to 2500sovs. This fine sum will be divided amongst the first four horses as follows:—Winner 1500sovs, second 500sovs, third 300sovs, and fourth 200sovs. The conditions of the race stipulate that it be open only to horses that have done 4min

38sec or better in a race at any meeting recognised by the Trotting Association. Liberal increases have also been made to several other events to be decided at the November meeting, when a total of 10,040sovs will be distributed, as compared with 8049 sovs last year.

Calmly, the three-year-old sister to Calm, who was purchased recently by Mr. B. Shadbolt, will make her racing debut at the South Wairarapa meeting on Wednesday. It . she has fulfilled early promise, it will take something pre'ty good to foot it w'th her in any race she may contest.

The two Ashburton mares Miss Kolmar and May Dalrymple have finished their racing careers, and both will shortly be sent to Auckland on a visit to one of the sires there.

One of the most prominent juveniles seen on the Adding’on track this season : s Hiram Galindo, the twoyear old son of Galindo and that good mare Marian. Hiram Galindo will probably make his racing debut on the first day of the Canterburj'- Park meeting.

The programme for the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s August meeting has been drawn up, and it provides for the d str buticn of 5000sovs in prize money, an increase of lOOlsovs on last year s sum.

In a recent issue of the “Sporting Review” a full page picture was presented of four leading trotting horses that had won at Auckland. It was a noticeable fact that the four sulkies attached were from the well-known firm of Messrs. Bryant and Co., Papanui Road, Christchurch. The January 15th number of the “Sporting Review” contained pictures of Bryant and Co.’s flyers, one being Ivy Dillon with a “jogger,” and St. Swithen with a sulky. These racing machines are on every trotting course in the Dominion, and nearly all placed horses have a Bryant flying machine or sulky harnessed to them.