HUTT PARK TIME-TABLE

Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 11

HUTT PARK TIME-TABLE

The Wellington Trotting Club, in accordance, with the mandatory rule passed at the annual meeting of the Trotting Conference last month, will have to abridge the intervals between races for future meetings, and the programme at the Spring Meeting on Saturday fortnight will be run in fifty minutes shorter space than previously. The first race will start as usual at 12.30 p.m., and, with 35-minute intervals, excepting one <a£, 40 minutes,

the last race will come due for decision at 4.40 p.m.

With its two separate totalisator buildings and five-shilling betting, the club anticipates that it will be hard pressed to hold to the new schedule, but it intends to keep as punctually as possible to the advertised times. A greater difficulty may be the gearing up of the horses in the shorter intervals, as most of the contestants at the Park are visitors, and their trainers therefore do not have the same stable assistance as in their home territory. The trainers usually are also the drivers, and it will often mean a hectic rush to gear up horses for a race after returning from driving in a previous race.

The coming meeting will show how far it* is possible to speed up the racing at the Park. If it .'can be done there it may be done anywhere, for no other trotting club' works under quite so many and varied difnculties as the Wellington Trotting Club, which depends almost entirely onoutside patronage. ..