TROTTING Selwyn Hanover Hutt Park Pick Tonight

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31784, 14 September 1968, Page 6

TROTTING Selwyn Hanover Hutt Park Pick Tonight

If Selwyn Hanover comes up with one of his best runs he could start his four-year-old racing successfully in the Suburban Handicap at Hutt Park Raceway tonight.

Selwyn Hanover will be trying to improve a sound record for Mrs V. and Mr R. E. A. Gillman in this $lO2O sprint event on the first night of the Wellington Trotting Club’s spring meeting.

The most important of Selwyn Hanover’s three successes last season was in the Queen’s Birthday Stakes at Ashburton in June. In that event he finished a close second to Maida Million but was promoted to first. Selwyn Hanover is one of three well-performed Canter-bury-trained four-year-olds in tonight's field. The others are Waratah and Bewitched, which will form a strong bracket with General Frost and Praesidium. Waratah capped off some useful minor placings with a sprint win in the Raceway Stakes at Addington last Saturday night. Bewitched shaped promisingly at her first start for the

season to finish fourth in the Four-year-old Stakes on the first day of the national meeting last month. Better Run? General Frost, one of Canterbury’s leading two-year-olds early last season, began another campaign in the Canter bury Stakes on the second day of the national meeting but never looked like a winning prospect from the back mark of 36 yards. Nevertheless, that run should have worked improvement. Bewitched and General Frost are both members of G. B. Noble's Yaldhurst stable. Praesidium is trained at Upper Hutt by C. S. Hunter. Beat Time and Seafield Countess will probably be the most popular combination for the T.A.B. concession double, which will be run on the Roydon Free-for-all and the City Handicap. There will be an on-course concession double on the Welcome Handicap and Electric Handicap. Fair weather is forecast. The track will be firm.