TROTTING BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1938, Page 15

TROTTING BREVITIES

Peggotty has won. her only three races convincingly, and a 72yds handicap may not. stop her at Forbury tomorrow.

Fremont is engaged .in only 3min 34sec classes at Wellington, and he will have to be a winner at Forbury to qualify for them.'

There has been something impressive about Great Divide's latest performances, and he will be heavily supported in the Electric Handicap at Forbury Park tomorrow. ■ ■

Triangle was noticed finishing well right up behind the placed horses in one of his races at the Canterbury Park Meeting. At his best he would be better class than-his Nelson opposition.

King's Jubilee, whose placed performances have earned him a penalty, should come into his own at Nelson. One of his toughest opponents may be Philario, from M. B. Edwards's stable.

Lombard has struck a fairly even field in the Motueka Handicap at Nelson. She is no champion herself, but has gone fast enough to indicate that she should be good enough for another win or two when the company is right.

If Ferry Post is as good as he is given credit for being in well-informed quarters, he looks an excellent prospect iri the Musselburgh Handicap at Forbury Park tomorrow. Most of those he will meet have been in the same class long enough to show that they are not likely to go very far, and Ferry Post is expected to go a long way. He is a four-year-old gelding by Jack Potts from Ecstasy.

Lucky Jack is not engaged in the Dunedin Cup, but he is carded for the Flying Handicap at Forbury Park tomorrow. For a New Zealand Cup winner a 2min 44sec mile and a quarter mark is a luxurious one. Lucky Jack began well in his races at Auckland, and his improvement in the earlystages may enable him to improve his sprint status this week.

Pilot Peter has not been given a great deal of racing this season, but in his few outings he has demonstrated that he is a young trotter of great possibilities. At the last Forbury Park Meeting he impressed as being more solid than he was last season, and if he has made the improvement exEected of him, he is again likely to gure prominently in his races at the Forbury Park Meeting. Gaynor made many friends for her Forbury engagements: by the determined manner in which she trotted the last half-mile of a trial over a mile and five furlongs in lmin 2 2-ssec at Addington recently. The pace was slow over the initial stages of the journey. She did the full distance in 3min 55 2-ssec, and the' last mile and a half in 3min 32 2-ssec. She is a model of fitness, and will make Peggotty step at Forbury to beat her.