IN SADDLF AND SULKY.

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

IN SADDLF AND SULKY.

He ™L All l1 S nOt a g °° d 110rSe to follow, tie iciy seldom runs a good race. Satin King carries every promise of aaclin<x to hid winning record this week. Gemlight breaks his gait too frequently to be a good betting proposition. Ruin will be a good horse to follow next season. Piiecless w ill be showing short prices in his engagements at the Canterbury Park meeting this week. J One race appears to take the steel out of \ esuvius, and just at present lie is not a good second day horse. Alacaranda has been doing good track work, but he does not appeal as a likely winner this week. Jackie Thorpe, a winner at the Waikato nieeting on Saturday, is very speedy, but is bad at the barrier. Pluto falls just short of being a brilliant pacer, and is on a mark from which he W’ill find it hard to win. Harvest Child appears to have lost all form, and in his recent outings has been racing like a jaded horse. Milo Minto is shaping as though he will win a good race before the present season is over. Handicaps for the two trotting events, at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting will be declared on June 10. After a lengthy spell from racing, the Dunedin-owned pacer. Maiwhariti is set down to carry silk again at the Ashburton meeting. C. S. Donald has Lindbergh in capital condition at present, and his prospects of winning a race with him this week aro bright. Gunfire went 3.25 4-5 off 3.45 to win at Ashburton and, as he will be on 3.40 or 3.41 in his next start, he should be prominent again.

In the Progressive Handicap at the Canterbury Park meeting Todd Lonzia is more likely to lose through breaking hji gait than through lack of speed.

Mat Voyage is a solid plugger, but lacks the dash of some of the others opposed to him in the Progressive Handicap tomorrow. Kelp has been showing promise in . saddle, and if raced with the weight on top this week he may break his long run of bad luck. Maurice Dillon is a smart sprinter, and in the mile harness race at Addington tomorrow he should be a place-getter from the limit. If Nelson Ata steps up to his recent track.form he will be prominent at the finish of the Elevation Handicap tomorrow. Baron Bingen is reputed to be in capital condition for his engagements this week. He can step a smart mile in harness. O. E. Hooper* has worked a big improvement in Logaleen, and the Logan Pointer, mare may win another race before the present season is over. The disappointing Stoney recently changed hands for a mere song. As a racing proposition he would be dear at . any price. Unless Holly Ba*nk gets the lead right at the start of his races he does not appear to do his best. He has more speed than stamina. The Brent Locanda mare Poi has been showing consistent form, and is likely to be among the favourites at the Hawke’s Bay meeting to-morrow. The Dunedin owner, Mr G. J. Barton, should not have long to wait for a return on his recent purchase, Sunchild. The Sungod gelding was never better than he is at present. When Great Glee breaks his gait he usually takes a long time to get back to it again. He has the speed to win from the mark he is on if he would only go a smooth race. Great things are expected from the Guy Parrish three-year-old in J. N. Clarke’s stable, for 'whom several tempting offers have been refused. He gathers his speed very quickly, and never- breaks. Mountain Dweller is nominated at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting, and the Washdyke track should suit him. C. S. Donald should not be long in winning a race with the ex-Southland pacer. Lord Antrim has gone on the right way since being raced at the Oamaru meeting. and will have his next outing at the South .Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. He is oin fine condition at present. Great Logan feels the’ pinch in the last little bit of a two-mile race when the pace is on from the start, if he is ever rii • a race that resolves- itself into a sprint over the final mile he will take all sorts of beating. Harold Denver gives every indication of stepping his way into the tightest classes. When he put in his finishing run to wip at the recent Oamaru meeting he made the others look as though they were standing still. Stand By looks certain to reach the tightest classes for straightout trotters, and in him C. S. Donald has a prospective winner of the Dominion Handicap. He looks nicely placed at the Canterbury Park meeting. Mountain Ore’s form at Oamaru, where he finished a good third after his driver had miscalculated the circuits to be covered.' will bring him into favour for .his next race, which will be at the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. Some Guy paced a solid race to finish second- to Willie Derby at the Oamaru meeting, and should be worth following in his next race, which will be at the South Canterbury. Jockey Club’s meeting this month. Netta.Oro paced two fine races at the Forbury Park Club’s winter meeting, and she is sure to be one of the favourites for the Harewood Handicap at the Canterbury Park meeting. Unfortunately, the . Bey de' Oro mare is at times troubled . with unsoundness. Hawkesbury’s Pride will be stepped out in the mile and a-half races for trotters at the Canterbury. Park meeting, and her performances will be followed with interest by southern enthusiasts. She is a fine., beginner, and has shown a fine turn of speed in her races at Forbury Park. The Ashburton Club has been favoured with , an excellent list of nominations for its winter fixture, and no fewer than 20 two-year-olds remain in the Sapling Stakes. One of the early favourites for the event is Finnebrogue, who should feel the benefit of the racing he has had. The brilliant pacer Black Lion will probably have his first race for his new trainer’ at the Canterbury Park meeting this week, and he will’ carry the confidence of southern enthusiasts. Next season the Lee Norris gelding will be in the tightest classes, and the New Zealand Clip will eventually’not be beyond him. The recently, imported trotter Sir Voyage, won at the first time of asking in New Zealand, but did not step up to his handicap mark. In being placed on 4.50 at the Waikato meeting he was, however,.,exceptionally well treated, as he had a .record of 4.45 in Melbourne. For the first day of Canterbury Park meeting. he was placed on 4.44. The latest country to adopt trottino- as a popular sport is Japan, and recently there was exported to that country from America a well-bred stallion in Lee Hagyard, 2.4 J, by Lee Tide—Lula Arion, by Peter the Great. A list of exported horses compiled by the Horse Keview shows Germany, Austria, and Russia to be America’s best clients in the purchase of horse flesh. Among the horses secured by Germany are the following:—Legality, 2.2; Colonel Bosworth. 2.2|; The Anvil, 2.2 J; Walter Dear, 2.2 J; St. Boberts, 2.34; Guy Lightning. 2.41; Brusiloff, 2.4 J; and Heir Beaper, 2.4 J. The only horse appearing in the list that came to New Zealand was. Peter Chenault, 2.4|. : A country performer who started a campaign in Sydney a few weeks back and who has shown high-class form is Lady Childwood. This pacer, after'being backed arid beaten more than once, struck her true form recently and won three races on end. At Victoria Park she captured a double—the Flying and Australian Trotting Club Handicap. In the Flying Handicap she started at oddson, but was so far back when a couple of

furlongs had been covered that odds of 10 to 1 were offered. However, over the last half-mile she displayed sensational speed and won, her time for the mile being 2.12 J. In the Club Handicaii she was handicapped to go 3.22, and she won comfortably in 3.19 J, and no doubt could have beaten the track record of 3.19 held by Happy Voyage. In the same stable as Lady Childwood is a trotter, Bock’s Image, and he has won at each of his four starts in Sydney.