TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26639, 9 December 1947, Page 8

TROTTING NOTES

By the Sporting Editor December 13 .. .. New Brighton T.C. December 26 .. .. Ashburton T.C. December 26 .. .. Gore T.C. Jottings Withdrawals from the New Brighton fields are due to-day. Nominations for the Winton meeting are due' on Thursday. Johnnie Lawn is the ruling favourite for the Members’ Handicap at the New Brighton meeting. A Good Record Cultivator’s record in his five most recent starts is two firsts, one second, and two thirds. The Jack Potts four-year-old looks like developing into a high-class pacer. Starshell Due At the Metropolitan meeting last month Starshell finished second to Pocket Edition in the Shirley Handicap, and the Sandydale mare is likely to be in favour for the Travis Handicap at the New Brighton meeting on Saturday. Likely Improver A likely improver raced at the Wellington meeiing was Great Wonder, a five-year-old gelding by Lusty Volo from Kaulala, who was got by Jack Potts from Horotane, by Logan Pointer from a mare by Croesus. C. C. Devine should place Great Wonder for an early win. From Australia The Australian pacer First Lawn has been purchased by F. J. Smith, and she is expected to arrive at Takanini shortly. A six-year-old mare by Lawn Derby from Lettie’s Last, First Lawn has not done much racing, although she has won in minor company in Australia. Improving Trotter Belmoral is on his way to much better company than he beat at Hutt Park, where he won a double. He is engaged at the New Brighton meeting, and he may find Java one of the hardest horses to beat in his race. Bright Prospects Indemnity looks one of the best prospects in his class at approaching meetings His form at the Wellington meeting was particularly good, and he has the breeding to take him a long way, being a five-year-old gelding by Dillon Hall from First Water, by Harold Rothschild from Red Diamond, by Prince Imperial. Bellisima Sold Bellisima, the five-year-old trotting mare by Certissimus from the Man o’ War mare Moerewa, fetched the top price of BOOgns at a sale of trotting horses held at Tinwald last week. She was bought by Mr W. E. Stickings, of Waltham.