PACER WALLA WAELA

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 123, 27 May 1933, Page 21

PACER WALLA WAELA

TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND

(From ''Vedette.".), ■'.'';■ tlSYDNEY, May 19.' <■■* Interest. in light-harness racing iii«£,'i creased remarkably iii Sydney tbi|..,c week consequent on Walla Walla's sucvr cessful attempt on Harold Logan's mU# '< record at Harold Park ou' Monday. \[ Among the -unusually large ■ erow<l!.V were many galloping regulars -who.. werafc.-.: agreeably surprised and well caters:: taiiied.. All vantage points on the out*1' side of the coursewere thronged wit % Jz. spectators. ..........' Walla Walla is a plain bay stallion,-, I showing nothing like the quality o{., I Acrou or many of the.-Logan J?ointeir..horses in New Zealand. Ho is a smart!.", pacer for all that, and did remarkablyjll well .to pace the mile in .2rnin 2.2-sseis.-l----on a track that is a few"yards..Bhort^l of half a mile. .Ho paced his first halty^. mile in lmin, but slowed up-a, litt.le iii-r----the second half, due jointly, to.making.'.!• the tuni out of the straight.. ratheP T r badly the second time aud to one 0f,,, the pacemakers-making him go. on tlio'..'.! outside at the. ho.me turn. In point oi;. . ; fact ho could have been better served..,' by the pacemakers, and in his nest utii;''■' tempt conditions should be better. .;_.'. Tho cinder track'at Harold Park was,. given every attention, but was used for:.', four races before. At Victoria Park,...-; six .furlongs, the track is .very specially;" ' prepared, and Walla Walla will havti-'.'-, first use of it. i ; ■ . New Zcalaudcrs will see the crack..,, pacer in action later on. His ovrner«. trainer (L. S. Martiri) stated on Mon«"- y day to Mr. James Barnes (president of v the N.S.W. Trotting Club)' that that"; was the programme. V. The latest "development is Martin's,., issue of a challenge of £500 a side to the owner of any pacer or trotter to race Walla Walla over a mile, the bests*'*' two out of three heats. Martin has lodged £500 with the N.S.W.T.C., which will stage the match, which must be run before September IS. It is expected that a New Zealand horse will ba available.