TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1928, Page 13

TROTTING.

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES. (By ORION). October 13, 17—Auckland Trotting Club. October 22—Oamaru T.C. October 22—Northland T.C. November 6. 8. 9—Metropolitan T.C. November 17. 21—Otahuuu T.C. November 24—Wellington T.C. November 29. December I—Forbury Park T.C. December B—Waikato T.C. December B—Cheviot8 —Cheviot T.C. December 15, 17 —New Brighton T.C. December 26—Gore T.C December 27. 29, 31—Auckland Trotting Club, December 26—Ashburton T.C. December 26, 27 —South Wairarapa T.C. December 26, 27—Westport T.C. December 29—Winton T.C. December 31 —Inangahua T.C. 1929. January 1, 2—Canterbury T.C. January 3—Westland T.C. Great Nelson has been claimed as the name for the three-year-old full-brother to Great Bingen. He is owned by Mr. A. Aitchison, of North Otago.

A winner in America last month was a three-year-old gelding by Peter Chenault. The colt, Peter McKinney, won a three-year-old race, best two out of three mile heats. He won the first in 2.12£, and the second in 2.13 J. He was second in the third heat, won in 2.12 L The track was wet and slow.

At Andrewshaw, Manchester, recently, Derby the Great made a performance remarkable in the annals of trotting in England by winning each of the three heats in which he started in the same afternoon. Derby the Great was driven by Cyril Cowsill, and the pacing stallion was obliged to step at 2.16, 2.19 J, and 2.20 respectively for a stake of £2O.

One of the best bred three-year-olds in New Zealand is Bell Axworthy, a three-year-old filly by Travis Axworthy from Bell Bingen, owned by the Matamata sportsman, Mr. R. Young, and bred by Mr. E. X. Lelievre (states an exchange). Bell Bingen was got in America, but foaled in New Zealand, and is by Bingen from the Peter the Great mare Bertha Bell, dam of Great Bingen, Peter Bingen, etc. The youngster boasts a combination of the Axworthy—Peter the Great, and Bingen strains.

J. Bryce, jun., left on Thursday for Sydney with the pacer Bankhead, who is engaged in the Sydney Thousand. The race will be run in a few days after the arrival of the New Zealand horse, who will be shipped back home by the first steamer after the race. It is expected that the trip will occupy about three weeks. Bankhead, who is a five-year-old brother to Cardinal Logan, by Logan Pointer from Lady Superior, has a mile and a-half record of 3.30 4-5 and a mile recorcHrf 2.16 1-5.

During his recent visit to Victoria W. J. Tomkinson secured Glideaway and Tonic, says an exchange. The former he has leased on his own account, but Tonic has been purchased on behalf of Mr. G. Barton, a patron of the stable. Glideaway is Victoria’s pacing queen, and has a record of 2.14 f for one mile, and 4.34 for two miles. Last season she was the most successful performer at headquarters, winning five races and securing four places. Her mile record was the fastest rate put up during the period. Tonic is a square-gaited gelding by First Voyage fr-»m Medicine by Owyhee, and in 1925, in a.very hollow fashion, won the Derby trotting division.