TROTTING

NZ Truth, Issue 804, 9 April 1921, Page 7

TROTTING

(By "THE TOFF.")

Ellesmere on Saturday. Manawatu on Friday. Auckland opens on Saturday. Effle Bingen has started on an extended holiday. What a great mare she will be next year. The Marie Tempest Opera Co. has presented a silver mounted:- whip. to B. Jarden, owner and trainer of ..the '"pacing mare, Marie Tempest, who won a double at the Easter fixture. The first time out on a big pourse Gold Queen will be apples and pears. Nell Pointer . is a bonnie mare, and one capahle of going a hot ten furlongs. Considering the short time she has been up. Quincey Maid ran a ,rattlinggood race In the mile saddle at the Metrop. _.

Marie Tempest has come right. It's a shame how good she will be, for "it'sdollars to doughnuts on her staying. Doreen Dillon is getting expensive. Her kind are bad to followIt .was murder to see Thea beaten m the mile and a quarter on the second day of the Metrop. ' She covered twice as much ground as anything else m the race. ■ * • . G'uynemer is not putting the ginger into his work that he. used to. Nighborn was well backed at the Metrop., but he went scratchily. It looks as if St. Anthony must have a big course. He went to bits at Addington. Koraki is racing with ill luck. He *will bob up any day and pay a good price. Marvin - Junior seems to be settling down. The first time he trots solid all the way, he will win by a furlong. riain Bob is due. Kingsland will be favorite m the Linton Handicap at Palmerston North. Gay Wilkes has a ton of speed and should soon pick up a stake. There was big money for Wahinepai at Addington, but she jigged at the mark. Homeleigh Dick trotted good for his young mentor at Addington. He is improving m behavior. Home and dried, Platinum, when he's labelled. The unlucky mare Lady. Esma, has been trotting m approved style. She is due to break if any time. Coldwater did a freeze at Addington, at least his punters did. He has since joined J. Bryce's stable. On her Easter showing, Moving Picture should soon win a race. A mile. and a half m saddle is where she shines. Sherry is again m work. This is her fifth year and she has not won a race. E. Carlyon has recommissioned Reappear and he loows a better horse for his spell. Onyx has never, looked back since winning at Wanganui. Even two miles is not beyond her. At Addington, Marvelle. looked as if she had just come out of the paddock. This mare is worth a place m any stable. . Dandy Chimes is now owned by Pi Oe Lar'gey. One thing sure about Dandy is, that lj_e will always keep Pat"thinking. Moondrift has only fo repeat her. track work to place her owner m easy street. Since Akaroa, a number have been inquiring for Golden Sun. Surprising howthey sort out a good horse. • Tndra has a lot up his sleeve yet. It. is only a matter of what he is set for. A number of the. dry heads are waiting to plunge on Jessie .Fraser. Avenue has been acquitting himself like a good one. It is just a question of him doing it in -a race. . The Oakhampton mare, Hetty King, is heralded as a flying machine. She will have to be good to head off Avenue, Bigwood, Kanuknot and Co. On Winton form, Enid should give a good account of herself up to a mile and a half m saddle, She is sudden out of the barrier.

Admiral Derby is becoming unreliable at the post. That's a pity.

v The first time Sir Henry leaves the mark oVer'a mile and a quarter, the others will know they have been to the races. There are no better green trotters about than Drifting Spec. Bellena is a thundering good mare, hut she is unsound. ' Should Bob Munrb reserve Daydrift for the big race at Palmerston North, he will be the hardest for the favorite to beat. He's a great stayer and prefers big grasa courses. Over a mile and a half Lady Pointei will be a hard nut to crack. " . The Taranaki Futurity Stakes was jus', a jog for Nelson Derby. Would like to see him tackle Childe Pointer. Belle Logan has gone on the right way since winning at Waimate, and will mora than likely- fulfil her Gold Cup engagement. Nabob has found a new owner. He will In future do his racing at Auckland. Childe Pointer duly landed. Unless she Is penalised m the Gold Cup at Palmerston North the opposition will wonder what has' struck them. She's a wonderful three-year-old. The speedy Sir Fulham is to be relegated to the scrap heap. He is amiss. The imported stallion Ballin is a great trotter at home, hut somehow goes to pieces when travelled to fixtures. Gentle Ribbons is trotting these days like an old stager. He should not miss next time. The promising trotting gelding Simple Peter has gone into R. J. Pollock's stable. Guardess should be right home over a mile and a quarter. That's her pet distance. If Easter form is worth taking notice of, how is Bush Boy going to get licked m a mile saddle? Navarre went to pieces on the eve of the Easter meeting at Addington and raced accordingly. You can always get square on good ones. A wheelboard is badly needed at Addington. Two. bad accidents were recently narrowly averted through sulky wheels coming m contact w*lth the posts. Birdwood had the chance of his life m the big mile and a quarter at the Metrop., . but a furlong from home he stopped as if he was shot. At the Easter meeting at Addington, Paul Dufault went 2.11, Chid 2.11. Reta Peter 4.2S 2-5. and Matchlight 4,26 1-5. Yet none of them won a race. The game is getting hard. * -- 4 ■ Three horses qualified for the next NewZealand Trotting Cup at the Easter meeting, namely Gloamhig, Asturio and Rangitata Lass. Jack McLennan still heads the list of premier horsemen with 21 wins, with B. Jarden m close attendance with 20 to his credit. The latter horseman is m front m the competitioit for the season's most successful trainer. .

On the concluding day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's fixture, Mr. R. J. Munro, on behalf of the horsemen at Addington, presented the retiring caretaker, Mr. J. French, with a case of brushes, a gold-mounted amber cigarholder, and a box of cigars. Mr. Munro referred to the high esteem in which Mr. French was held by all those that came in contact with him, and the good work he had done during the twenty-one years he had been caretaker at Addington. Mr. French suitably replied.