TROTTING TOPICS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 12

TROTTING TOPICS

AROUND THE TRACKS NOTES AND COMMENTS The sign “business quiet." is a familiar one at Epsom and Otahuhu the-e-e days, and with few excaptions owners and trainers are indulging their charges with a spell. Those who have young ones in hand, however, are patronising the tracks, and some of the juveniles are displaying promise of an encouraging nature. To Return Later W. Pope, owner-trainer «>f Belle o’ I Mine, left during the week-end for l Nelson, His pacing mare, which is I ■'hi the interval being attended to by i NT. Craig, will go South by boat this j week. Belle o’ Mine did not race as , well at Epsom as her owner expected, ; hut she gave the impression that under | more favourable conditions she would j ■do a. lot better. It is the Intention j of Trainer Pope to return to Auckland j with Wairoa Belle's daughter for the j -August carnival. Costly Experience After her long and trying journey : from the extreme end of the West i • 'oast, Auckland fans did not have the ; privilege and pleasure of seeing Olive Nelson in her true colours at Alexandra. Park. Jim Simpson’a litt'e Tsntter was all to pieces, and it was almost a. shame to ask her to race when she only arrived a couple of hours before the races started. Her Xaramea owner, however, wanted to give the mare further experience, and, **s he remarked to “Abavdos.” it was costly experience this time. Want# Firm Track Bogan’s Pride was costly to his numerous admirers at the recent .Auckland meeting, but when his intimate connections found how the going was, they did not feel too contident about the prospects of their pacer. The son of Logan Pointer failed to show anything like his best form on rbo heavy track, but when he goes to

Addington in August, providing ho j*ets a solid footing, the Hutt-trained welding will not bo long in making amends for his Alexandra Park losses, j Not at Home at Epsom Sunshower once again demonstrated i hat she cannot produce her best form on the Auckland grass track, although There was an excuse for her showing At. the recent fixture. The daughter of Sungod has put up some brilliant performances in the South this reason, but she requires a track where the footing is firm. Sunshower has been s*. good stake-earner this year for the Auckland sportsman, Mr. 13. R. Hevell. : r.d when the new season comes round j-hc should soon be on the winning list again. A Bad Traveller Since coining North, Mignonne has i failed to show anything like the ability j she is credited with in private down [ South. J. Bryce has a very high opinion of the capabilities of the daughter of Match light, who won a few events before coming to Auckland. The mare was down in condition after the trip, and L. McMahon found it no p asy task to build her up again. Her first northern appearance was at New Plymouth, where she refused to leave the mark each time she went to the j post. Then the mare went off again • Travelling home, but was coming to I band nicely on the eve of the winter i

I fixture. Mignonne was started twice j j at Epsom, but failed to show her best j At Toil Again I W. Nightingale has taken Pavlova - up again after a short respite, and the | black mare is looking in splendid fettle Jto commence a preparation for the early fixtures in this province. The daughter of Man o’ War showed appreciation of the careful attention bestowed upon her earlier in, the season by winning a couple of races over short courses. She was then taken to Ashliurst and Hastings, and started twice each day—two miles, and a mile j and .a-quarter; and while the mare earned minor place-money, the exer- i tion was too much for her constitution, and she went right off colour The spring should see her in fine fettle. Will Race at Addington. Evelyn Locanda will be kept steadilv j in work with a view to taking part at the Addington National carnival in August. The daughter of Brent. Locanda and Evelyn has never appeared in better heart, and her former trainer, J. Bryce, while in Auckland recently, made some highly complimentary reference to the manner in which W. Nightingale turned the mare out fur the meeting. Mr. Cucksey’s mare will later go South to the Hornby trainer, who will supervise her final preparation and racing at the New Zealand Metropolitan function. To Tackle Them Again Kohara, who has won many good handicaps, besides securing a New Zealand cup for owner Webb, will be given another opportunity in the forthcoming season to chase some of the best prizes. He will be prepared by the painstaking Otahuhu trainer, Sid (Jrout who was in charge of the sturdy black horse before lie went on holiday, and in such capable hands Kohara will' G ©very chance to show his best. “ hen thoroughly right; the son of Mate blight is one of the finest and boldest pacers in the land, and while be can run a merry ten furlongs, is a stayer of the first water, and always a dangerous customer for the best of I opposition to tackle. Kept on Knocking M • Broughton did not take Hal Chimes back to Te Awamutu after the Auckland fixture, at which he ran a solid race in the Cornwall Handicap, but tailed to reproduce it on the con- j eluding day. The Hal Zoloek gelding has been more or Jess of a disappoint- ! nu nt during the season, although he . secured quite a number of minor jplacmgs. Over all distances he has . paid a second dividend, while on other I occasions he secured the thinner end I° C 5*L e * >urse - Such a run of placed i certificates must bo exasperating to I the pacer s owners, as well as his painstaking trainer-driver, and the party behind Hal Chimes deserved to meet with better success. There is a chance that next season the geldinmay find a stall in S. August’s stable. Despite the statements and rumours in circulation to the effect that J. Bryce took Torpedo Huon I Mignonne 4 ° Christchurch j after the Auckland winter meeti mg, Ted Parkes s pair of pacers > are still at Epsom under the care Of L. McMahon, and, with Gold 1 Jacket, are receiving every care ‘ and attention at the hands of their i !u a '. n m r ' * ls duite on the' cards I that Torpedo Huon, who does best ! on hard tracks, and preferably i dirt ones, will go South prior to ! the August fixture at Addington, I and be under the control of Scotty.” When last at Christchurch, the ex-Australian pacer I j displayed fine form, and his owner I has hopes that on a suitable track j j he will get some of his outlay j