TROTTING.

Otago Witness, Issue 4029, 2 June 1931, Page 53

TROTTING.

FIXTURES. June 3.—Hawke’s Bay. June 3, 6.—Canterbury Park. June 13.—Ashburton. June 20, 22.—Auckland. TRACK TALK. By Adonis KING GEORGE HANDICAP. The Canterbury Park Club’s meeting will be opened to-morrow, and the fields engaged should induce spirited speculation and provide capital contests. Twelve horses have been paid up for in the principal event, the King George Handicap,

and C. S. Donald holds a very strong hand with the Sir Author—Lindbergh bracket. . Both horses are fine stayers, and in his more recent efforts Lindbergh has given an indication that he has learned how to get into top stride at barrier rise. With a good beginning tomorrow he will be a hard horse to beat. Grand light is a horse of whom the best has not yet been seen, and he must hold a chance from the limit, while of those further , back nothing appeals more than Hrins fortune, who registered a brilliant performance at the Ashburton meeting. Horses. likely to be prominent at the finish are Lindbergh, Grandlight, and Erin’s rortune.

SATIN KING’S PROSPECTS. Since the Southland-bred pacer Satin King went into O. E. Hooper’s stable he has been started in only one race, and he won it impressively. The Erin’s King gelding is a New Zealand Cup horse in the making, and in the Advance Handicap at Addington to-morrow he looks nicely placed on the limit, and is certain to be one of the favourites. The finger of form points very definitely towards Satin King i\i 1° ma ? ?, nd J^ e<! Shadow and Sunny Bob two of the hardest horses to beat. THE MINOR EVENTS. ,„®° far as , the minor events at the Canterbury I ark meeting arc concerned, the handicapper appears to have done his '\°J k 7« ’r and packers will find their task of finding winners anything but an easy one. in lP ro \’ng young trotters are en- ? r OBi’ e ssive Handicap, and theie is little doubt that Todd Lonzm will be showing the shortest price. Mountain Mist has come on a lot lately, and he and G™, 7 SclsoH . io,!ow Dunedinowned horse in the order of favouritism. I . ri acl c ss won so easily at Forbury Park Aat he takes the eye in the Harewood Handicap, in winch the best of the others aF Ef ar n to be , Netta Ol ’o and Logaleem Standby will be one of the leaders all the way in the Elevation Handicap if he makes a good beginning, for there is r 1 xr abou* his pace, but many may prefer Nelson Ata and All Peters, who is if a? lni P rove d style for R. Townley. If Meteor is reserved for the Final a Yn lC f P ’ will come into stiong favour for the Pioneer Handicap, 'n;nJ le T Uay most danger coining from Dillon Logan and Bay Nut. Baron Bingen is certain to carry big IJ U ,e Tclt> graph Handicap, but Maurice Dillon and Nor’-wester are both the way niaklng him do his best aII Meteor will be backed down to a short price if he is saddled up for the Final a i !l< y? ap ’i 111 1118 absence Dick Swithin and Sunchild may dispute favouritism. EARLY TROTTING SPEED. It is said to be never too late to mend ton S f eh 1S X lie ? ase should not be too late ior us to give the trotter a fai>go as .’"ell as the pacer, writes J. S. Walford in the Australian Trotting Record. The trouble with us as regards early ti otting speed is that we are too close to thoroughbred blood in the majority of & S evnY ed l fr ° m ; The effort r been x, to s et awa v as far as possible fiom the thoroughbred. Forty j ears ago J. A. Buckland bred Fritz whose sire was Vancleve, and dam Freulein, by Berlin from Woodburn Maid all importations Vancleve, Berlin, ’and b \ d Wei ;?T Personally selected - by the late Robert Wilkin, of New Zealand, on their breeding. At the time I'ritz was bred, 1890, the world’s trotting record was held by Maud S. with 2.8 f, f + V' as tfien considered that the apex The UnYrr SPCe< i had been about reached.’ „YYi i bo ' v .ever, went on with the good work, breeding from highly-bred' stallions and mares, getting away as far as possible from the thoroughbred as much in the dam as the sire, with’ the result that by 1903, 13 years, two minutes ■' aS i b o? kci o- Lou P lllon trotting her mile in 1 oBJ. Since then the effort ha.s been to obtain early speed more than reducin ' the world s record for all aged horses. °