TROTTING NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25021, 15 September 1942, Page 7

TROTTING NOTES

By Sentinel The Invercargill Trotting Club will give £ISOO at its spring meeting, an increase of stakes amounting to £3OO over last year’s total. The aptly-named Silhouette, the winner of the Churchill Handicap, was got by Red Shadow, whose stock seem few and far between, but have the gift of travelling fast. At the Wellington Trotting Club’s spring meeting, held last season on the Hutt Park course, £39,475 went through the totalisator compared with £34,445 at Trentham. Steel King, who gave away 72 yards and won the Navy Handicap at the Wellington meeting, is a seven-year-old gelding bv Wrack—Oriental Queen, but the Stud Book lacks identification of the royally-named dam. The Wrack gelding, Glenariff, who won at the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting, did not win in eight starts last season, lie is a well-bred gelding, as he was got by Wrack—Adelaide Wood, by Fairlight (son of Woodchild)—Lady Windermere, by Woodchild—Tracey M. T., by General Tracey—Lena Bell, by Burlington—Bed o’ Stone, by Lincoln Yet. Woodchild was got by Rothschild—Wood Nymph, by Wildwood. Burlington is a thoroughbred horse got by Albany—Gossip, by Traducer. Gossip is also the dam of Canard, who won the Grand National Steeplechase in 1886..