TIGHTENING-UP

NZ Truth, Issue 1174, 31 May 1928, Page 13

TIGHTENING-UP

Some Owners Not Agreeable (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) Auckland owners, taken on the whole, are a sporting lot. OTILL, like every other division of sport, they have the dog-in-the-manger element. When "N.Z. Truth" suggested to some of them that the Auckland Trotting Club would be displaying wisdom if it reduced the limit of the Rowe Trot to 4.34 or better, they were distinctly hostile. The owners referred to have little 1 m the way of trotters of any quality which could win even m a 4.44 class. But they are under the impression that they — and they alone — keep the sport going and that events should be framed to suit their own particular candidates. However, they are fortunately m a decided minority, but it is time they realized that the light-harness sport m Auckland will not fte kept back just because they have no decent competitors. . Mussolini lost ground at the start of the Kowai Trot at Amberley and did well to pick up his ground to fill third place. Mussolini is by Nelson Bingen from the speedy mare, Banknote.