TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 6, 8 January 1935, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

_• Acceptances for the Wellington Trotting Club's Summer Meeting .are due at18 o'clock this evening. ' TKe single-pool system of betting will operate at Hutt Park on Saturday, with three dividends in fields of nine or over, and two dividends in fields of five, six, seven, or eight. The Wellington Trotting Club has been very .unlucky with" the weather for its last two meetings, but there is every project for a change of fortune in this respect at Saturday's Meeting. , - ' Rereatu and Rerepni, who have been quartered at Avondale since early in October,, leave on .their retufn to Awapuni today. All- going well they will next race at Trentham. Korero, Revision, Nightguard, and Zion-1 ist, who were racing at Stratford on Satur-1 day,>are doing some rapid travelling at prosenti .jfonthey .are due,-to be on-hand for the Opening day. of the Reefton Jockey Club's Meeting at Reefton tom'orrdW. Trotting is definitely increasing in popularity? in Sydney, especially at Harold Park, says, a Sydney1 writer. Betting is better than it has been for many years, and unlike the "good-old days," several horses are backed in each race. The starting at the recent Hawke's Bay Meeting was not quite up to the standard generally set by Mr. W. C. Price, but it