Trotting

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 12

Trotting

FLOODED COURSE ADDINGTON UNDER WATER POSTPONEMENT PROBABLE Special to THE SU2J CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The postponement of the opening of tho Metropolitan August meeting is to be considered, as all tracks at the Addington trotting course are out of commission owing to heavy rains. The main track is under water in parts, the most affected portion being that from tho winning post round to the two-mile post on the northern side. At 2 p.m. today the inside of the track proper resembled a miniature lake, and there seems no chance of the tracks being in a fit state for racing on Saturday. It is expected that the water will be on it for several days The motor-car enclosures are flooded to such an extent that they are not likely to be in a fit condition for use for some time. The only portion of the grounds that is not seriously affected is the cinder circuit, which is high and dry. Training operations however, have been suspended One old identity who has attended practically every trotting meeting held at Addington since the course was opened said that he had never seen it in such a bad state as it was in this morning. He had seen the course under all sorts of conditions, but the present flooding was quite the worst that had occurred. Field in Big Race Weakened The scratching of Travis Axworthy, King Pointer, Carmel and Ath alone for the August Handicap has considerably weakened the field, and it is now almost certain that Linkman will increase in favour. lie is a great mud horse. C. S. Donald has scratched Carmel and Quality in favour of Dundas Boy, which can be taken as an indication that the Brent Locanda gelding is back to his best form. Probably the best stayer of the field, Dundas Boy is a big possibility in the heavy going that is certain to obtain. Muriel de Oro has raced best over short courses, but her brilliant victory over two miles at the Canterbury Park Winter Meeting gives her an excellent, chance in a field which has been deprived of its best talent. Harold Logan It is still feared that Harold Logan may not be able to fulfill his engagement on the first day of the meeting. Mr. J. Stafford, veterinary surgeon, is attending the pacer, and every endeavour will be made to get him to the post. Harold Logan promises to start the hottest favourite of the first day’s card, and in anything like his best shape should prove more than a match for the best of the opposition in the Queen Mary Handicap. the danger being Wakataua and Erin’s Fortune. i Glenrossie Is Well Country King has indicated at Ad- , dington of late that heavy going is no ! trouble to him by revelling in the mud. ] His good showings at Auckland, es- ] pecially against Harold Logan, will i augur well for his prospects of bring- j ing off something in the Trial Handi- ■ cap. in which he is opposed to Regal Voyage.

Of the Northern horses that have arrived for the Addington meeting. Logan’s Pride, Warplane, Glenrossie, Genuine, Maxegin, Great Delight. Ukelele Lady and Native Star, nothing is attracting more notice than Glenrossie. This Matchlight four-year-old won the Wanganui Cup last season in most attractive fashion, and in going that will be all in his favour. he threatens to upset Erin’s Pointer in the Advance Handicap. Genuine, who is also good in heavy stuff, looks hale and hearty, and while Maxegin is not so well forward as could be wished, he should improve as the meeting progresses. Ukelele Lady will lack nothing in condition, and on this score she. has the pull over many of those engaged in the Stewards’ Handicap. The Adonis mare is very well, and such a

eood stayer, coming from a famil,- . mudlarks she is sure to be well tancit? Great Delight’s Prospects Undoubtedly the best handle... horse of the Queen Mary HandtofJ?*? Gre 4 t ->7 De 3 ,i f ht - ';, ho has ° in 4._7 4-o. and is now on 435 he can handle the mud at all he should have a good innings at the meetSL Tho continual rain has prevented hf. being given a rousins trial since „ riving at headquarters, but it is stood that he is not from the best. The Southland mare. Erin s Fortun. has arrived for the Addington meeting She will be driven by B. A. Edwa r ?, As a mare who can manage soft goin. to some purpose, she is certain to be 111 demand for the Queen Mary Handi cap. Her most impressive perform anco on a soft track was registered a» the Oamaru winter meeting, when she scored in ridiculously easy fashion over Xeeoro in the President’s Handi cap. to clock 4.34 4-5. a tirst-class effort under the conditions. After the Forbury Park TrottinClub’s unemployment relief meeting she proved much too good for Logan Hanlon and Wrackeen in the Awarua Han dicap, putting up a splendid effort on the holding track after a slow begin. Likes Soft Going The likeliest to bring off a surprise ir the Introductory Trot is the Dunedin mare Ambition. She is good on a heavy track, and when the conditions were ball at the Forbury Park summer meetir,she gave White Satin and Fifa 72 yards and 60 yards start respectively, and beat both pointlessly. She is a* very solid mare and one that has not been known to leave her feet under pressure in a race. That sloppy conditions l ave proved no detriment to Writer will influence backers in their summing up of the Stewards’ Handicap. It will be remembered that at the Wellington Trotting Club’s February meeting, rain set in after the fourth race, and rendered the track very heavy. This did not prevent Writer from giving a finished display of trotting, to win easily, the M ilford Handicap from 84 yards behind, which at once stamped him as a brilliant mudlark. Writer is giving away 36 yards in a strong field on Saturday, but he can be expected to be in th • picture toward the close. Locanda Boy’s Chance D. Bennett has been giving the unsound Locanda Boy any amount of useful toil on the waterlogged tracks a: Addington, and the pacer is fairly revelling in his favourite going. Now that bad going is inevitable, Locanda Boy, who twice won the Greymouth Cup, besides bringing off a big surprise at Addington last spring in sticky going, will have to be considered again. Royal Comrade and Trimmer, benefiting by late winter racing, are in rare fettle. Both can run out two miles, but are seen to best advantage over short courses. New Brighton reports are to the effect that Arikitoa is in his best order. One of the best mud horses engaged on the opening day of the Addington .meeting, he is giving away 12 yards in the International Handicap, which from the point of view of class and numbers, is the strongest field of the dajv However several of the better fancied division will not be suited bv the going that is likely to obtain, ani .Arikitoa is sure to acquit himself well for H. J. Edge.