HUTT VALLEY TROTTING CLUB

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 154, 27 December 1912, Page 4

HUTT VALLEY TROTTING CLUB

TheHutt Valley Trotting Club held its record > meeting on the Petone Recreation Ground yesterday. There was a record ' , crowd, a record totalisator ,turn over, and l'ecord fields. In the Ladies' Bracelet, Tautnut, who Jiad started earlier in the day. and was ridden by Wadham, put up a much more meritorious performance in the hands of an amateur rider. The stewards held an enquiry and decided to severely caution Wadham and the owner of the horaej S. Jensen. The running in the tirsi race, the stewards found was very auspicious, but there was not uuflirient

evidence to disqualify. -'Concluding results :—: — , •" ' . ' ' !• Electric Handicap Trob, of 55" soys ; second, horse 10 soys from the stake ; one mile.— Mr. , T. M, Wade's Manxman,- by Wildwood polt— Frisk, 12sec (owner I }, 1 ; Merry, Chijd, lOsec (J. Auguat). 2" ; Maud H., 12sec (M. Holland), -. 3,; Also started-j-John H. 6sec, Boadice'a lOsec, Thistle lOspc, Native Child 12sec. Time, 2min 33sec. Merry Child had most supporters on the machine, but she could never quite catch up to Manxman. This was easily the most popular win of the day. Mr. Wade had supported his horse fairly heavily in the first race but let him go out unbefriended in this event. Time, smin 32sec. Ladies' Bracelet Handicap Trot, of 35 soys ; two miles. — Miss I. Jensen's Taumut, by Berlen Abdallah, 6yn», 30sec (J. G. Morris), 1 ; Lucy Wallace, 20sec (Evans), 2; Child Douglas, 22sec (August), 3. Also, started-- Dick G. scr, Ding Dong 15 sec, Neil Gow 30sec, Khandallah 30sec. The race requires little description. Taumut led all the Way, anil the only other competitor to make a showing against him was Lucy Wallace. After the race Mr. A. Samuel, president of the club, presented a silver cup, valued at, £10 I,os, to .-the rider of the -winner and handsome bracelets to the nominators of. the first ana second horses. Time, smin 32sec. Trotters' Handicap, of 60 soys ; second, 10 boys from stake; 1A miles.— Mt. T. M. Wade's Wild Maid, by Wildwood Colt — Berline, aged.> 13sec (owner), 1 ; Todd Bells, 4sec (Wadham), 2; Scamper, 20sec (Harte), 3. Also started— All Steel 4s«c, Jeanette 16seo, Brachycome lSsec, Revenge 23sec. Stewards' Handicap, of 45 soys; eqcond, 5 soys from stake; one mile.— W. Kerr's Breeze, by Wildwood— -Gertie, 7 see (J. M'Detmot), 1; Ribbonette, lOsec (August), 2; Maecenita I3sec (M'Carthy), 3. Also started— First Alarm 3sec, Boadicea 4sec, Colleen Bawn 7sec, Molly Darling 7sec, The Baun* llsec, Pjfinceßs Bruc& 13sec, Miss Lonsdale lSaecj, Greenstone 15sec, Pakotui Bsec. This was one of the finest faces of the day. Breeze and Ribbonette had the battle to ' themselves over the last lap. Down the straight both horses were ridden with whips, and Breeze just managed to get home by the barest of margins. It waa a fine ending to a veTy enjoyable meeting. Time, 2min 27sec. TROTTING MEETINGS ■ At the Weskport- Trotting Club Meeting, the Club Handicap (in harness) was won by_ Redruth, Flamingo being second, and Miss Black third. The Gore Trotting Club Handicap resulted:—Winsome 1. S.M. 2, Eccentric 3.