TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22987, 16 September 1936, Page 5

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel Maurie M'Kinney Maurie M'Kinney, a brother to Muriel de Oro, is amongst the recent additions to track workers at Addington. He was got by Rey de Oro. Getaway A young trotter that has come into notice is Getaway, a three-year-old trotter by Travis Axworthy from Lottie Audubon, the dam of Te Kahu and Pegaway. Getaway, who is engaged in the New Zealand Trotting Stakes. to be run at Timaru, was produced by Lottie Audubon, by Great Audubon from Silverene, by Rothschild—Silvery by Imperious from Patience, by Victor, a son of Young Diomedes, who was got by the imported thoroughbred Dio medes, Lustre A recent addition to G. M'Kendry's team is an unraced mare in Lustre, who is a trotter. She has a good deal to recommend her on breeding, being by Wrack from Pearl Pointer, the dam of Kempton Nicoya, White Satin, and Plain Pearl. Lustre is a six-year-old, and on the little that has been seen of her at Addington she is not all her lineage would suggest (says an exchange) being very ordinary to this stage. Indianapolis Indianapolis is going along the right way and from all accounts keeping bright and healthy and sound in the feet. He looms large as a 2min prospect and would be a sure thing in that direction if worked to a .closehitched sulky. None of the American champions went to their records in long shatters, and it is a serious handicap on a New Zealand horse to ask for a record rivalling the best in the world under conditions definitely reas an anchor on speed A big striding horse such as Indianapolis may have wide action behind and so require a lengthy shaft, but freedom to stride out could also be obtained with a close-hitched sulky of sufficient width >f wheel base Indianapolis has been tried in a short-hitch sulky, but the attempt was too brief to give the champion a fair chance to get accustomed to the feel and balance of the machine He may require one fairly wide bu* it should not be unobtainable and now is the time to try him under the same conditions as the champions compiled their records in America.

Plans for Pacers At this time of the year trotting clubs are planning out attractions for the coming season, and it would be interesting to know if any of them contemplate catering for the unhobbled pacer. Trotting clubs are compelled under the rules to cater for the unhobbled trotter without achieving any great success in that direction. In any desire to cater for the unhobbled horse, either trotter or pacer, clubs are up against strong opposition in the shape of trainers, who prefer to handle horses assisted by artificial aid to speed. Hence it is that an unhobbled pacer remains something in name only in New Zealand even though the sport has none of the proprietary element making finance a first consideration. Dan Patch Imin 55{sec. Minor Heir lmin 58$sec, Directum lmin 56? sec, Single G. lmin 59sec, Lou Dillon lmin 58Jsec, and Uhlan lmin 58sec, went to their records without straps. The smaller tracks in New Zealand may require the straps to hold a horse together when going' round the turns, but in Australia they have been putting up smart performances on saucer circuits without gear, but it has not aroused ambition in New Zealand to create records without artificial aid.