TROTTING

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12620, 3 December 1926, Page 9

TROTTING

AUCKLAND CLUB THE HANDICAPS Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, De-comber 2. The following handicaps have been declared for the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting:— INTRODUCTORY HANDICAP, Of 400 sovs; 3.45 clas6; one mile and a half.

WELLINGTON CLUB ACCEPTANCES CLOSE TO-NIGHT. Acceptances for the first day’s events at the 'Wellington Trotting Club’s summer meeting will close with the secretary, Mr R. W. Short, Petone, at 8 o’clock to-niight. The principal event on the first day is the New Zealand Trotting Gold Cup, and present indications are that a record field will face the starter. Mr J. W. Frizzell’s gelding Tom Thumb is being selected in the south as a hard nut to crack. He has certainly not been harshly dealt with, as he is on the limit in a 4.36 class. At the Metropolitan August meeting he was set to give Holly Boy 48 yards, but got interfered with at the start. He is now 'receiving 12 yardß from Holly Boy. The latter, however, is on the improve,-and though a difference of sixty yards since they last met looks a severe penalty he may worry Tom Thumb at the end of a strongly run two miles. Last year’s winner, llolly Billon is favourably placed on 72 yards behind, as also are Bing Boy on 48 yards, and Silk Thread on 36 yards, and the winner may possibly come from this division. Taurekareka’s speed is not to be questioned, but lie lias yet to prove himself- over a solid two mile journey. He will, however, havo the services of “Scotty” Bryce to help him out. Brentloc is another speedy pacer that has been definitely adjudged a 11011-stayer by the handieapper. On the 12 yards mark he should not have to extend "himself to maintain good position over the first part of the journey. D. Wither’s team for the meeting will consist of the champion Great Bingen, Acron, Tranipcrisp (n recent importation from America), and Peter Swift. . R. E. Mills’s team includes the now aspirant for the title of New Zealand champion, PrinCe- Pointer, and the game old battler Whispering Willie. The latter is well known to patrons , of the Hutt pwi-k, having beaten a

good field of pacers in the Gold Cup of 1917. Whispering Willie earned his first place money at a meeting of the Wellington Trotting Club, held at the Recreation Ground, Petone, in 1915, when, in an old-fashioned high sulky, he ran second to All Steel (saddle) m the Petone Handicap. He was then a four-year-old, which makes the game little trotter to be now in his sixteenth year. To find him now the back-marker in the High Class Trotters’ Handicap is a wonderful illustration of the stamina of the trotting bred horse. Sea Petarl will be a competitor in the Gold Cup, and would be hard to dispose of if at her best. Mr McMillan’s mare, however, has not raced since the August meeting at Addington, and may be just a little backward to concede the 72 yards handioap set opposite her name. Siport lovers- of Wellington will have an exceptional opportunity of seeing exactly what high class trotting is when the champions of New Zealand measure strides in the Electric Handioap on the first day, and the Champions’ Stakes on the second day. The meeting of Great Bingen and Prince Pointer should alone be worth n long pilgrimage to witness. It is contests such as this that raise the 6port to something more than mere competition for stake money, and the Wellington Trotting Club is deserving of every success lor its enterprise.

Mat Audubon so \ictor Bell... sc Lady Stepney 12 Don Zolock... sc Peter Eyre... 24 Peter Valais 60 Sweet Memory 24 Brian Bingen sc Lord Roberts 24 Wi Taka sc Direct Action 36 Trampcrisp.. sc Peter Elzear .; sc McDonald 36 Colonel Nelson Boy 48 Thorpe so Katute ....... 48 Royal Bob ... sc Fairlight 48 Roma Bingen 6C Marble Star. 60 Beta Huon... 6C Amberite 60 Cool King... ac Sister Temerline ... sc Beatrice 84 Molly Anseline 84 Audubon sc Golden Gate 84 yds bhd Sebisca 108 Kempton .... 12 Roi Alto 106 Sea Queen ... 12 Tim Wood ... 108 Bridget Sfutu 156 Galindo 12 DECEMBER HANDICAP, Of 400 60 vs; 3.28 class; one mile and a half. Amaris 60 yds bhd Rey Logan ... SC Rock Hinton .. 12 Hoon Hay ... 60 Stanmoor 12 Lady Kotuku Jack. 12 Barrington SO Nelson Tasker Master 24 Bua Buz SO Richore SC Councillor 24 Scandal so Jewel Binger Star... sc Pointer 24 Billon Huon.. Grattan 60 Diamond > Child 24 Thorpe 8C Rockburn 24 Bingen King.. SO Holly Boy ... 24 Uncle Bert ... SC Cute Lad 36 Gold Flaks ... 6C Anselm 48 Logan Direct Rothschild 8C Morning 48 yds bhd Menember 48 Jean Darling. 12 Taurekareka.. 60 Brendo 12 Goldman 60 Woodvale 12 Nelson Fame 60 12 AUCKLAND TROTTING CUP Of 2200 SOTS ; 4.30 class; two miles Whispering yds bhd Willie 66 Jewel 12 12 24. Glandore 60 Lngan Chief ... Peterwah Sfl Nelson Derby 24 Doctor Dillon 6l. Jack Potts ... 36 Cardinal Acron 36 Logan m Imprint 48 Dillon Wilkes sc Ahuriri 72 Loeanda Mac SC Sheik 72 Queers Own. sc Prince yds bhd Pointer 84 Kohara 12. Great Bingen 06 PARNELL : HANDICAP. Of 500 so VS; 4.48 class; two miles. Blzear 66 Golden Gate ... 86 Nelson ) ' Maid of the McKinney 36 Mountains - 90 Wild Nut ... 36 Sebisca SC The Tartar... 48 Tnampfast SO Wimmera Tiger Salve... »c 48 yhs bhd ToJJ Chimes ... 60 Maggie A1 Mack ...... 60 Pronto 12 Happy Rosa ... 72 Una Dillon ... 12 Ngatiro 84 Real the Great 12 Tradesman... 84 Gold Young Blake... 144 Sovereign 24 Wallroon 156 Some Jazz ... 36 GRANDSTAND i HANDICAP. Of 500 sots; 4.40 class; tWo miles. SC yds Kotuku Jack Rock Hinton.. bhd 12 24 Hoon Hay ... 6C Willy Whizz. SC Colehill 24 Transport ... SC Jewel Pointer 24 Bingen King Nimble Rua Pere ec Direct 24 Gold Jacket ... Festive Morn 6C' sc Bawldy Locanda 34 yds bhd Lord 7 Nepean. 36 Reliance 12 Machine Gun 36 Marshal Neil 12 Direct Don Douglas... 12 Morning 60 Scandal 12 Auto Machine 86 Respect 12 ROWE HANDICAP, Of 500 sovs; 4.38 class; two miles. Betty Moko ... SC yds bhd Lee 1 Todd sc Escapade 12 Peter Swift ... Tradesman ... sc Young Blake... 24 sc Pyramus 24 Bonny Spec ... 6C Waihaka 24 Pete Peter ... SC Judge A1 Mack sc Hancock 36 Peter Dean ... sc Money Spider 60 Charles Dixie sc Napland 60 yds bhd Whispering Rose Bingen... 12 Willie 60 ST. HELLER'S handicap. Of 500 sovs; 2.50 class; one mile and a quarter. Nantwich SC Woodvale sc Glandore 12 Nelson Tasker sc Wallroon Ben Lomond.. 24 Master 24 Councillor 6C Dick Dillon ... 24 Holly Boy ...• SC Nelson Fame.. 36 Blair Aubudon 6C Taurekareka.. 36 Diamond Oakhampton 36 Child SC Hypo 36 Rose Pointer sc Queen's Own... 48 Brendo BC Golden Devon 48 Huon Grattan SC Kohara 60 yds bhd Black Lila ... 60 Cute Lad 12 Bonny Logan. 72 Maiwhariti ... 12