TROTTING

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 57, 5 September 1934, Page 6

TROTTING

WELLINGTON MEETING

SOME PROMINENT ENTRANTS

(Special to the " Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day,

The Wellington Trotting Club is both fortunate and unfortunate in having the crack young pacer War Buoy carded to race at Hutt Park on Saturday. Fortunate iv that he will be a star public attraction, and unfortunate because, no doubt, his presence has been responsible for the depleted held in the Bollard Memorial Handicap. War Buoy has now won seven consecutive races, and remains unbeaten. On all hands ho is regarded as something of a freak, because his breeding is that of nothing more than a good average handicap horse. War Buoy has two engagements on Saturday, and even should he earn a penalty in the Bollard Memorial Handicap, he would retain the confidence of backers from a probable new mark of 4S yards iv the Wellington Handicap.

William Tcli should beat ail the others in the Bollard Memorial Handicap. His winning effort over two miles at New Brighton was most convincing, but it must be known that it was not a truly-run race. William Tell is solid and reliable, and improving all the time, but he has yet to meet a horse of War.Buoy's class. Eey Spec has been .racing consistently, aiid has shown form' well up to metropolitan standard. If War Buoy declines his engagement in the Wellington Handicap, Rey Spec is as good a prbspect as any of the others. As a three-year-old last season he put up the best trial for a pacer of his years ever seen at Addington: For two miles he registered 4min 26sec, the last mile and a quarter 2min 40 3-osec, and the last mile 2min 7sec.

Among .the more promising of those engaged in the intermediate classes are Young Travis, Village Guy, Colene Par.rish, Compass, Guy Junior, and Attorney. Of these, Attorney, Guy Junior, and Village G.uy have no recent form, but the last-iinmed, vlio has been engaged in the Spring Handicap in preference to his stablemate Colene Parrish, has raced well when fresh on two occasions, when he won so impressively that he was hailed ns the makings of a real good one. His failures at the last Wellington Meeting can be discounted, because he was not riant.

Village Guy does not impress as one likely to stay well, but he should go very fast up to a mile and a halt. Young Travis was out of luck at New Brighton, or he would certainly have paid a dividend. He was a rank failure in the latter part of last season. Nothing in his class was showing better trials, but he came nowhere near them on race day. Now he is shaping more like a racehorse, and there is no doubt that he is one of the very best in his class. As he must have beaten Colene Parrish with a clear run at New Brighton, he is entitled to more respect than the mare in- the Railway Handicap. On a firm track Compass is scarcely likely, to beat him. either. . ' The trotters appear to be dominated by Sonoma King and Triangle, with a de-. eided preference for the former, who is one of the most solid and willing young horses seen among the square-gaiters in recent years. '■• Gamble stands out in. the Hutt Park Trial Handicap. This three-year-old is a real aristocrat in appearance, though still green and coltish after several races. If he is the good thing for the New Zealand Derby that most people believe, he will have to beat' this poor company to confirm the confidence in his classic prospects. Gay Sister is suited best by a mile and a quarter at present, and in the event of Gamble being withdrawn from the Sharpe Handicap, she will be worthy of consideration. Her track work has been particularly good.

Gordon and Clifford Richards were opposed by another brother Colin in the Evington Selling Handicap at Leicester on July 24. It was the first occasion on which the three had clashed in a race. None of the horses finished in the money, Gordon ..finishing sixth, Clifford . seventh,, and Colin lafet. ' . ■. •, .■