WELLINGTON SUMMER MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1936, Page 6

WELLINGTON SUMMER MEETING

CUP DAY DRAWS FINE FIELDS

HORSES LIKELY CTO CLAIM ATTENTION

■'~ Premier among the'fixtures held at Trentham during the season is - "■ ■ 'the Wellington /Racing ;Club?te Summer Meeting, and, as it is several '; ■"" years since there have becm such excellent fields as promise to go to «,"" the post on "the opening d!*y tomorrow of this year's fixture, the club .^T may -hopefully anticipate twie of the most successful gatherings that ■"«■ Trentham has witnessed since the days before the recent lean years !♦ came. The course has never been in better order, and all prospects {•*' are for wenther to fit :th&' occasion of a great meeting. '-i* Particularly isplendid J'ls the field for the star event, the Wellington *."■ Cup. The acceptance -flbr this first race of the season so far as Trentham is concerned comprises the best class, handicap, and three-year-old '.I form. It is a field 'that -simply could not be weighted by ordinary rules, ;and "the result is :thenif.ore being awaited with the keenest interest "'■'- that has been shown inj any race for years. The quality in the Tele--7 " graph is -hardly .comparable with that in the Cup, but the field contains ithe last .Stewards' .winner and also a previous winner of the 'I Stewards' and the Railway. The Wellington Stakes gives classic tone to •". -the opening day's "racfing.