METHVEN TROTTING CLUB

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 83, 4 October 1929, Page 6

METHVEN TROTTING CLUB

TO-MORROW'S MEETING.

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHUECH, This Day. The Methyen Trotting Club's Annual Meeting, which is to be held to-morrow, promises to be the most successful yet held by the club. Since the Methvcn Trotting Club received a totalisator permit, it has gradually gone ahead, and it now holds a very popular fixture. Catering as it does for the slower classes, it attracts large fields for all its events, and the new system of handicapping will make it even more popular with owners, who will race their young and promising pacers and trotters, knowing that even if tm-

successful the time recorded will leave them a mark from which it -will not be very hard to succeed.

The principal event is the SrETHTEN CUP (harness), of 250 sors- 41° i class; two miles. ' ' Erin's Royal .... scr Kiowa . 04 Glenrovran scr Dilnon ".,'* '■ S| Soaoma scr Lady Cello ..'" "4 Lough Neigh .; scr Matagourl ' «4 El Direct scr June d'Oro .."" 3« Mac Dillon .... scr Firpo . qr Wakataua. ..... sec Avenger "* 130 ydsblnl Bay Nut .'.'.*.'.'." 60 Mercury 12 Trampfast „ ins Tumatakuru .... 12 Wrackler * me Curfew Boy ... 12 -••• ius Of those on the limit El Direct who raced well over a mile and,-a half at Addington recently, and if he sees out the final quarter of a mile look to have the.best prospects. Mercury will not be troubled by the distance, and Tumatakura >rent 3min 24 3-ssec for a mile and a half when he finished second to lone at the April meeting of the A<=hburton Trotting Club. Curfew Boy has been racing solidly, and these three look dangerous on 12yds. Kiowa was backed at New Brighton,, but failed to go away, but Dilnon is not yet a proved stayer. After showing improving form Lady Cello seemed to train off slightly, ■ but she may have come on again, and Matagduri, although not long in work, is a fine stayer. Wrackler and Trampfast look as though they will find the front -division showing too much improvement for them to succeed. Wakataua, Mercury, Tumatakura, and Curfew Boy may be the most dangerous at the finish.

The following may sliow up in the events named:—Westward Ho Handicap, Grand Caiiyon and Mac Locanda; Drayton Handicap, Specer and Eey; Mount Harding Handicap, Lllewellyn and Bonnie Locanda; Avopmore Handicap, Cuslila d'Oro and Salient; Visitors' Handicap, Loiterer and Becky Mine; Jtiverbank Handicap, St. Petrox and Nelson's Prince; and Mount Hutt Handicap, Satin Bird and Auto Minto.