TROTTING

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 11

TROTTING

WAIKATO FIXTURE AJ4EAD (By ••padlock”; Win and place betting will be In operation at Claudelands on Saturday, the Autumn meeting of the Waikato Trotting Club. •tartlng Time*. The first race at Claudelands on Saturday is due to start at 11.30 and the last race at 4.15. Addition to Btable L. N. Yernall ha 6 acquired an addition to his team in a three-year-old trotter by Great Bingen from Lady Chenault. Prospects for Going With the continuation of existing fine weather conditions tlje going at Claudelands on Saturday should be in splendid order for the Waikato Club's Autumn meeting. Mori Bingen Hori Bingen, who has winning form In saddle to commend his claims 'to consideration on Saturday, is to have the services of the gallop.ng jockey, R. Glading. Shows Promise The maiden Peter Smith, in E B. Smith s stable, is a promising maiden who should come right in time. He has shown speed on the tracks and shaped moderately well again yesterday. Form Was Good jThe form of Canadian at the recent Auckland meeting was Impressive and a marked improvement on hiß New Plymouth and Hawera displays. Now that he has com’e right he may continue his winning way at Claudelands. He was doing his work at the right end and handled the holding track in fine style. Corona Ball Corona Bell has been racing with a consistency" that draws attention to her chances in the Introductory Handicap. The Guy Parrish mare failed In her recent engagement at Epsom, but it marked the flrst occasion she had missed a place over a mile and a half. Grand Triumph Grand Triumph, who won after a seriei of disappointments at the sum- ** mer fixture at •Jaudelands, and who subsequently won over two miles at Cambridge, is set down to make a reappearance at the approaching Waikato meeting and off 12yds in the Members' Handicap he will have to be treated with respect. Prospects of Trymant Tryment is engaged in the saddle event at Cfaudelands on Saturday and the consistency of this mare In saddle events will claim her an optimistic following. She has won in this class of event at Claudelands In the past and besides being a great beginner possesses the ability to see & mile right out. Our MeKlnney Our McKinney is bearing a' healthy and robust appearance and is getting . through his tasks in fine style at Tc Rapa in prepaartion for engagements j at the next Auckland gathering. Few j pacers round these parts are better qualified to handle winter conditions than L. N. Vernall’s representative and he is in right condition to pay expenses in the months ahead. Reception Reception, who shaped pleasingly at Claudelands yesterday, trotted splendidly at Palmerston North only to be beaten by the Improving King Franz, and after a sound display at New Plymouth she was overshadowed by Tonee. She will have her opportunity to make amends at the approaching Waikato meeting where on Saturday she is an acceptor for the Members' Handicap. Ohlle Boon Chile Bean shaped well in the semifinal trials at Claudelands yesterday, being accompanied in a solid work-out over a mile and a half by the trotter Reception, Adversity and Baron Grand. He was standing them up ground at the start, but finished in front on terms with Baron Grand at the completion of the essay. He should strip in good heart when called upon to race again. Lady Amanda Lady Amanda demonstrated that she la fit and well tor pend.ng engagements when, in company with Nawton Parrish yesterday morning at lieadquarters, she hit out freely oxer a h mile and a half ’to finish ou terms with the latter and Imprest* by the manner in which she was revell.ng in her task o\er the conclud ng stages of the effort. Lady Amanda is an acceptor for the Tamahcre Handicap on Saturday and Is not without good pectsSpur to Ambition , The recently concluded Tnter-domi-nion Championships rank as the greatest spur to ambition to own a really good horse that has ever been provided in New Zealand and Australia. The pride of possession of. or breeding or owning a really good horse places a sportsman right in the front rank of those whom the sporting public can applaud as leaders in a national sport. It is undeniable that a strong atmosphere of commercialism surrounds light harness racing. hut the fact does not shut the gate on sportsmanship. Our system of handicapping is based on commercialism in the fact that good but unlucky form does not stand deprived of financial compensation at some future date. And It makes a good young horse worth good money. From whatever aspect light harness racing is regarded no shadow of doubt exists that it •rakes a very strone appeal to a large section of tiie sporting public that really supplies the sinews of war and the financial strength to carry on. 1838 Championships Though II was derided by the conof, delegates In New Zealand to allow the Northern Tasmanian Trotting Association the right to conduct the 1930 • iliamplonshlps. the provision was made that at least fb"'" should be distributed. Failing this. Western Australia would be granted the right. The following, in reference to the decision. Is taken from the Examiner (Launceston :—A compliment was paid to trotting in Launceston when the Infer-dominion Trotting Council decided in New Zealand to - offer the championships for Elphin next year, but the condition that £7oi>o nm-t be given in stakes precludes the like|jhood of the meeting being held there. (Continued tn next column)

There was much disappointment in official circles that the council had practically barred Tasmania. 'When last year Tasmania was selected for the 1939 Championships there was not any stipulation about stakes. Each State should be left to provide prize money according to its resources, and Tasmania would have made a good show. Perth could very well have waited its turn without grabbing Tasmania's date, as that is what the decision of the council really means. If a £7OOO minimum for stakes is Imposed on Launceston, then Perth should be required to put on £15,000 and Melbourne or Sydney £30,000. Mr G. J. Barton, the New Zealand owner, who represented Tasmania on the council meeting, was at Elphin last February, and he cabled that he had done hi*s utmost to secure a lower minimum of stakes for Tasmania. • It has been demonstrated in Tasmanian racing that any special occasion when big stakes are offered attracts public support. When the Kings Cup has been run at Elwick and Mowbray and £IOOO had to be provided for the one race, the clubs made a greater profit than ever, but £7OOO for four days seems rather too large an order. it means an average of £1750 a day. With £IOOO a day there might have been a hope. When cables were received from New Zealand the Northern Tasmanian Trotting Association cabled back that Jt was bitterly disappointed about the decision to impose a minimum of £7OOO in stakes, and pointed out that no condition as to the amount of stakes was imposed when-last year -the 1939 Championships were allotted to Tasmania. It also urged a reconsideration of the decision about stakes. No reply has yet been received. Much preliminary work has been done about staging these Championships in Launceston next Easter. The Northern Tasmanian Trotting Club and Danbury Park Club proposed*to combine and the amount of stakes was tentatively fixed at £3OOO for four days’ racing, with all the minor races near about £IOO each. Such a carnival would have been a great thing for Launceston, and would have given the sport a big lift in this State.