TROTTING OWNERS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 232, 28 June 1944, Page 7

TROTTING OWNERS

Close Contest For Leadership

The contest for the position of leading trotting owner, of the season has assumed an interesting stage. Mr. B. Grice, who won races at Ashburton with Pokes Face and Traverse now leads with £5025. or £203 more than Mr. J. R. McKenzie, according to a list of winning owners compiled by the “Calendar." Thta position can still, be affected by the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s patriotic meeting on Saturday, which will close the trotting season. Mr. A. J. Wilson is in third place with £30(10. and Mr. E. G. Brlgens is next with £3155. Then follow ‘Mr. F. McKendry £2740. Mr. J. R. Henderson, £2370. Mr. V. leeming £2OOO. Mr. L. F. Berkett £2222, Mr. E. F. Laurenson £2205, Messrs. Cooper and Holmes £lO9O. [Mr. C. L. Rhodes £1904 Mr. G. Lancaster £lBBO, Mr. I). G. Nyhan £ISSO. Mr. F. E. Graham £lOlO.. and Mr. 11. Butt £1525. I.ending Sires.

In a lust of winning sires of the season just closing Jack Potts Is again a long way out In front, with £25.742. The next on the list is Grattan Loyal with £16.712, and Quite Sure follows with £13,619. Then come Key de Oro £93G7, U. Scott. £9266, Wrack £8095. Nelson Derby £6865. Man o’ War £4155. RingtTue £3242, Lusty Volo £2948. Peter Bingen £2610, Frank Worthy £2595. Jewel Pointer £2517, Gamble £2400. Great Parrish £‘2294. Trevor de Oro £2260. Maxegin £2185. Happy Voyage £2090. Sand.Vdale £1942. Gaillard £IB2C, Red Shadow £1745. Great Binmen ‘£1635. Auto Machine £1630. Worthy Bond £l4lO. Dillon Hall £1250. David McElwyn £lO5O, and Swordsman £lOlO.

Change <ff Stables. Saltidos and Corondal accompanied Kinsman on the trip from Auckland to Wellington and tin* three horses arc going Into new stables. Kinsman is to be taken over by A. Rf T. Beale and it is understood that Saludos and Corondal will be trained, in another Awapuni stable. New Arrivals. S. McGreal is shortly taking over Mr. Wenzl Scholium’s stables nt Pukekohe. which will be renamed the Harris Tweed Lodge. Recent additions to McGreal’s team are Kiatere Maatl, the promising hack Tarzah. two unraced thrce-yoar-olds owned by Mr. . AV. Claude Motion, vlcepresklent of the Now Zealand Racing Conference. and an Inflation three-year-old owned by. a Te Knitl sportsman. Beau Leon Retiring. It is reported from the north that Beau Loon is to be retired from racing, and will take up stud duty in the coining season. P»i*au Leon was a Guineas winner in bis second season and was an unlucky horse in the Derby the same year. He represents the Son-in-Lnw stlrp of the Hamilton mule line through Bean Fere, and in his female descent his second dam. Mareca. was a half-sister to Woodbury, dam of The Welkin, who sired Gloaming. . Vermeer Sold. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., report the sale to Mr. E. Dear, a Manawatu breeder, of the stallion Vermeer, who was imported to Now Zealand by the Tre-. lawney Stud, and is the sire of Kentucky, Gr. ?n Gables, Corot. El Maadi, Varuna. Hogarth. Come True. Vi tuoso. Benclemeer, Gnymeer. Aral, Verify and other winners. Vermeer is by the St. Leger and Ascot Gold Cup winner Sohirio from the Chaucer mare Pilgrim’s Rest, whose dam. Meadow Rue, was half-sister to Valais, five times premier sire of Australia and sire of Heroic, the leading stallion in Australia seven tinier

Manawatu Betting System. Eacff time a meeting is hold at Awapuni the Manawatu Racing Club comes under criticism for retaining the single pod system of betting, whereas win-and-place is almost universally popular with race; goers, and the recent two-day meeting was no exception. The common belief Is that the club is averse to converting Its electric machine, which at present is capable of issuing tickets only under Ihe single pool system. The president. Mr. B. Jacobs, .stated at the clubs’ patriotic meeting that the club already postsewsed the. necessary equipment for converting the issuers to win-and-place selling, but could not obtain permission for the structural alterations that the change-over would entail, including the erection of a dual tote lace. For stealing a bottle of hair oil valued at I/- ‘rem Sclfridges (X.Z.). Ltd.. William Daniel Harman, mechanic, aged 14, was sentenced to seven days’ Imprisonment by Mr. Stout. S.M . in the Magistrates’ Court. Wellington. yesterday. Senior-Sergeant G. Paine, who prosecuted, said that Harman had*.lust served a sentence fo- a similar ofh-nee. Accused plead- <•<! guilty.