TROTTING NOTES

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

Countless Cup Favourite

Countless, the only horse to quality tor a 4.26 mark at the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s August meeting, is deservedly .one of the main subjects ol aiiscusslon for the New Zealand Trotting Cup. He scored a much easier win in tho August Handicap than he did in the National Handicap on the first day- of the meeting.

Back at Pringle’s. After winning the Islington Handicap on the second day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s August meeting, Gold Flight rejoined his owner’s stable at Lower Hutt and raced unsuccessfully under his supervision at the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting. Gold Flight has now been returned to J\ B. Pringle’s stable, to be prepared for suitable races in the South Island. Not Likely. , L _ Suggestions have been made that Josedale Grattan may be prepared for the. £5OOO Trotting Cup. That to improbable. The American stallion has not raced since last November, and was not included m the assessments issued for the current season. He had no chance from bis tight mark in the last cup, and is not likely to improve, even if he survived a preparation. Josedale Grattan won over £5OOO in stakes anil there is a buoyant market for Jiiti services in breeding circles. ParsluHl for Addington. In an endeavour to qualify Parshall for tho New Zealand Trotting Cup, F., J. Smith has decided to take the Ring-true pacer to the New Brighton meeting next month. Parshad is on the fringe of the eligible line, being assessed at 4.29.

Five Times Second, Sports Guide has finished second m his last five races. He will break the sequence the first time he steers a straight course. Toccetle Sold. The well-bred pacer Toceetle has been purchased by Mr. E. Tatlow, and will join his stud at Hagley. Tasmania. Toceetle is by Grattan Loyal from Cyone (4,37. 3-5), by Logan Pointer from Mavis Bingen, by Huia Dillon (Harold Dillon—Grattanettc) from Bell Bingen. The latter was by Bingen from Bertha Bell, the dam of Great Bingen. Peter Bingen, and several otlier high-class performers. Toceetio won several races over all distances and has a record of 3.14 for a mile and a ball*.

N.Z.up Fees. It will cost an owner £5O fur nomination and acceptance fees to start a horse In the New Zealand Trotting Cup this year. Nomination costs £5, and two nccoptanecs of El 5 and £39. The winning driving fee Is .CSS/15/-. The Best Breeding. An interesting addition to Mr. J. K. McKenzie's slud is a liJly foal by U. Seott from Spangled Maiden, an imported mare by Voloinite—Margaret Spangle, by Guy Axworthy. Spangled Maiden was bought ae a yearling for £l5OO.

Reducing Fields. To remove all misunderstanding about a club’s authority to ballot horses out of a race in order to reduce the field to a safety number, the executive of the New Zealand Trotting Conference, under the power granted it at the annual meeting in 1942, has decided that any club or racing club including a trotting race or races in its programme may, where the number of horses accepted exceeds the safety number on any mark, instead of racing in divi-. sions in accordance with the ruies, reduce the starters to compete by ballot so that the number of horses on any one mark shall not exceed (he safety number. If a horse has accepted for more than one race to be run ou the same day. it will be deemed a non-acceptor for any race in which it. lias accepted and in respect of which an elimination ballot is required, provided that one of the races for which It has accepted is not subject to ballot, and provided that the horse is entered for its correct class in tlie second race.

Ten Cup Jfor.HCN. Ten caniliilates for the New Zealand Trotting Cup have been entered for the Farewell Handicap at the New Brighton Trotting Club’s nieeting. They are Racing Power. Shadow Maid, Burt Scott, Coquette, Nelson Eddy, Dusky Sound, Bayard, Joan Conquest. Colonel Grattan, and Gold Bar. It Is a mile and a quarter race with a limit of 2.48. Stater to Special Force. P. Gallagher has a four-year-old sister to Special Force ready for serious racing. Her name Is Furlough, and she contested tlie Geraldine Trot at Geraldine recently. Furlough was not raced as it two and three-year-old.

Tam o’ Shunter in Work. Tam o’ Shanter, winner of the Innaru Nursery Stakes. 1942. under R. J. Humphreys, has been recommissioned after a spell, and has joined M. Holmes’s stable.