POPULAR HAROLD LOGAN

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 6

POPULAR HAROLD LOGAN

The big crowd at Hutt Park fullyexemplified its appreciation of Harold Logan when the grand old horse led the field home in the New Zealand

Cup Trial Handicap: Driven by his old pilot, M. Holmes, he made his usuel clever beginning, and picked up half his handicap before a furlong had been covered. He followed Great Logan and Red Shadow into the straight, where he unwound his customary burst of speed and had the race won a furlong from home. He pulled up well, and the race will sharpen him ■up for his important engagements at Addington next week.

Harold Logan is thirteen years of age, and he is regarded as the wonder pacer of the Dominion. During his career, he has won two New Zealand Trotting Cups, three Free-for-Alls, and four out of the five match races that were held in connection with Walla Walla's visit to New Zealand two years ago.

Great Logan beat his colleagues as easily as Harold Logan beat him. He has done well under L. A. Maidens. and promises to be prominent in sprint events at the Addington Carnival. On Saturday he had to do all the pacemaking, and in view of that he did well to finish where he did."

During his career Red Shadow has been partial to soft tracks, and the state of the going on Saturday caused speculators to send him out a firm favourite. He began quickly and was driven a patient race by L. F. Berkett. He joined the leader (Great Logan) at the entrance, to the straight, but a furlong from home he was under pressure and did not finish resolutely, being decisively beaten into third place. It is a fact that Red Shadow never has shown his true form at Hutt Park, and so it would be unwise to discount his Addington chances on his Wellington performance.

The Australian gelding Emilius Way was not at all happy in the soft going. He began smartly and paced true all the way, but he.was hopelessly beaten when a mile had been covered.

Impromptu received a kick on* one of his hocks prior to the race and the in jury, was reported to the stewards by C. Moran, who, however, decided to start the horse. Impromptu began all right and was within a neck of the leader passing the stands, when he made a bad break and dropped back to last. The injury is of such a nature that it may prejudice his prospects in the New Zealand Trotting Cup and other important events at Addington next week.