GREYMOUTH TROTTING MEETING

Southland Times, Issue 24890, 2 November 1942, Page 2

GREYMOUTH TROTTING MEETING

Goldfinder’s Easy Win (P.A.) GREYMOUTH, November 1. The Greymouth Trotting Club's meeting was concluded in fine weather, with a large attendance. The track was firm. The totalizator handled £18,856. making £35.887 for the meeting ,an increase of £5411. The day’s total and the grand total are both records for the West Coast. Results:— GIESEKING HANDICAP, £ll5. Twelve furlongs and a-half.—3-3 GREAT WORTH It (Jamieson) 1. 2-2 MILLY WRACK It (McKendry) 2, 4-5 COCKNEY (Behms) 72yds 3. Half a length; a length. Times: 3.46, 3.46 1-5, 3.40 2-5. The winner's driver, Jamieson, was fined £2O for careless driving and causing interference with the second horse, the committee being unable to decide that the interference affected the result. An appeal has been lodged against the fine by the part-owner, Mr J. Bourke. TRADESMAN HANDICAP, £llO. Ten furlongs and a-half.—l-1 COURTCARD 24yds (Pringle) 1, 4-4 WAIKARI CHIEF It (Siebel) 2, 5-5 VAL REY It, coupled with Air Crew, 3. Four lengths; one. Times: 3.1 3- 3.4 3-5, 3.5. PROGRESSIVE HANDICAP, £l2O. Ten furlongs and a-half.—l-1 TOP HAND It (Pringle) 1, 8-9 LEAMINGTON It (Yeatman) 2, 2-2 HARGQOD’S PRIDE 12yds (Williams) 3. Four lengths; a head. Times: 2.58 1-5, 2.59 2-5, 2.58 3-5. LABOUR DAY HANDICAP, £l9O. Twelve furlongs and a-half.—2-3 TENPENNYBIT It (South) 1, 6-6 TOKALON It (Stafford) 2, 1-1 FESTIVITY 12yds (F. G. Holmes) 3. Two lengths each way. Times: 3.32 3-5, 3.33 1-5, 3.32 3-5. NGAHERE HANDICAP, £l3O. Twelve furlongs and a-half.—l-1 PARFAITE It (Fairbairn) 1, 1-1 MAORI TOA 12yds (Cameron), bracketed with winner, 2, 2-2 HIGHRATE 48yds (Fraser) 3. A neck; two lengths. Times: 3.49, 3.48 1-5, 3.45 3-5. HURRICANE HANDICAP, £l7O. Two miles.—3-3 GOLDFINDER It (Stafford) 1, 2-2 SPECIAL AGENT ’l2yds (Davidson) 2, 6-6 RORQUAL It (Smith), bracketed with Portfolio, 3. Twenty-five lengths; two. Times: 4.36 3-5, 4.42 3-5, 4.43 4-5. Dawn Grattan’s driver. Butt, was fined £2 for careless driving. COBDEN HANDICAP, £l2O. Six fur-longs—2-3 AIR SPEED It (Berry) 1, 5-5 LEAMINGTON 12yds (Yeatman) 2, 6-6 HARGOOD’S PRIDE 12yds (Williams) 3. Four lengths; three. Times: 2.21 4-5, 2.22 4- 2.22 4-5. WHIRLWIND HANDICAP, £155. Ten furlongs and a-half.—2-1 TOKALON It (Stafford) 1, 1-2 FESTIVITY 12yds (Holmes) 2, 3-4 NATIVE MAN 48yds (Behms) 3. Half a length each way. Times: 3.0 1-5, 2.59 3-5, 2.56 3-5. TROTTING CLUB’S LETTER Reply To Canterbury Association In reply to a letter received by the Gore Trotting Club from the Canterbury Owners' and Breeders’ Association about the club’s attitude to the decision of the Gore Racing Club on trotting events for its spring programme, printed in The Southland Times on October 21, the following letter has been sent to the association by the club:— You complain that my club has "taken a purely local view of the matter under discussion,” but my committee has never pretended to speak for the whole of the Dominion. The question was being dealt with by the competent authority, the New Zealand Trotting Association, and local action originated in a letter from the trainers to the association. My club felt that its members were well qualified to express an opinion on the representations made and that such an expression of opinion should be of some value to the association in its deliberations. We could surely leave to the association the larger questions involved. It is considered advisable that clubs and associations of a local nature should realize their limitations.

You pay a poor compliment to Hon. W. E. Parry when you suggest that after making a decision on a policy matter affecting a large number of clubs he should be deflected from his purpose by the views of one small club. Incidentally, you speak of him receiving from my club “advice agreeing to the cancellation of one trot.” We sent no advice to the Minister, and we surely could not enter into any agreement regarding another club's programme. The query about your relations with the New Zealand Trotting Association was prompted by the fact that in your first letter you quoted verbatim from the letter sent to the association by the local trainers (not, be it noted, by my club). In reply to your summarized points, I have to state: (1) You have completely failed to deal with the statements made in paragraphs 3 to 5 (particularly paragraph 4, as to the action taken by the Gore Racing Club) in my letter of September 22: (2) as the standard of manners varies in different circles, we shall not debate further our allegations of rudeness; (3) your attempt to brand the club as a traitor to trotting and an enemy of the Trotting Association is strongly reminiscent of Hitler’s policy of making mischief between friends. It calls for no further comment. QUEEN’S PARK GOLF CLUB A four-ball bogey handicap was played on the Queen’s Park golf links on Saturday, the proceeds of the match going to the soldiers’ parcels fund. The leading scores were:—J. D. Strettell hnd H. Craig, 3 up; R. Broad and J. Sturman, 3 up; A. R. Cullen and G. B. Millar, 2 up. Strettell and Craig won on the count back.