LIGHT HARNESS RACING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 23

LIGHT HARNESS RACING

Tho Wellington Meeting. First-class acceptances were received last evening for the Wellington Gold Cup Meeting, to bo held next Saturday at Hutt Park. There is an excellent Held in the Gold Cup. No doubt Wrackler, 12yds, will be favourite if Mr. Nieoll decides to send his horse to the Hutt, but on this occasion Wrackler is meeting a very select field, and good us he is ho will not find it easy to win. Coneliff, who is better now than at any time since being brought to the Dominion, is bound to appeal off' the front, and he should k==p Wrackler busy all the way. It may be that Wrackler will prove the better stayer of the pair. Daphne d<3 Oro is a good mare and liable to win off the front. Dilworth is a maro liable to do anything, as she can both go fast and stay, and she and Wrackler should beat Dundas Boy off the same mark. Quality is a rare stayer, but a very slow beginner, and this means that she has a hard task to get those she is giving starts to. Koi lOr has been showing good form and is a real horse, but even so he will have to put up a great performance to get the big end of the stake. Terence Dillon reads the best ot those handicapped further back. Just at present it is difficult to go outside Wrackler, Dilworth, and Coneliff. A Smart Three Year Old. TJie most pleasing feature of the trotting at Timaru waß tue exhibition givcu by White Satin in the Claremont Handicap, says a Christchurch writer. This filly is only three years old and had started only twice previously. 0* this occasion she left the mark smart'y and always had the race in safe keepii,.;. She kept up a nice even pace over tlie first mile, but when R. B. Berry askedv her to go faster Bhc responded quickly and soon had the remainder in trouble. She is sti)l_ a bit green and is inclined to take notice of the crowds instead of gettJDg down to her work, but a little experience will cure this. She is engaged in the Vauxhall Handicap, 3.45 class, on the opening day of the Forbury Park Trotting Club's Summer Meeting, and as she can only be subjected to a 60yds penalty, she must start off the limit of this race. As " she. went 3.41 very easily at Timaru, she should be well supported next time out. She is engaged in the New Zealand Sires' Produce Stakes, to be run at Forbury Park in May nest. Not Truly Gaited Yet. The trotter Great Way was made favourite for the two-mile harness race at Timaru last week, and went particularly

well till about half a mile from home, when he broke up and failed badly. Great Way is improving with his racing, and is a fine stayer, but he is not yet capable of getting back to his gait again at all well when ne makes a mistake When ho settles down to race- solidly, he will soon be in good class. Ha dead-heated last season in the Sires' Produce Stakes with Great Nelson, who is also showing good form as a four-year-old. For Hutt Park. J. Heudersou will take Terence Dillon to Wellington next week. Terence Dillon raced very badly at the Canterbury Park Club's Meeting at Addington at New Year and disappointed his connections. Young Blake Retired. The retirement of Young Blake was contemplated even before his last success at Alexandra Park on the last day of the old year. He has now been definitely retired, and is to spend the rest of his days, according to a Southern writer, ou a farm in North Otago. This is due more or less to being on a mark from which he has little chance of winning, but it is surprising for ho is not au old horse for tho trotting game, having been foaled in 1910. In eight seasons' racing Young Blake has started 105 times. He has won 15, has been second 10 times, third 10, and once fourth, and altogether he has won £6011 10s—a record for an unhoppled trotter in New Zealand.