HUTT PARK HORSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 15

HUTT PARK HORSES

WELLINGTON HOPES

TREVOR DE ORO FORWARD

(By "Ribbonwood.")

The Hutt Park contingent for the Wellington Trotting Club's opening meeting of the season on Saturday is not a large one, and the .centre has no representation in the principal events, the Wellington Stakes and Bollard Memorial Handicap. Among the improvers and novices, however, there are several who showed useful form last season. L. O. Thomas has a full stable of nine horses in work at the present time, but only three of them, Trevor de Oro, Sewana, and Purser, are engaged at the Wellington Meeting. Trevor de Oro had a short spell after the Marlborough Meeting, where he finished second to Waikato Prince •in the Cup. and he is near his top form.. Sewana, a maiden pacer by Rey de Oro —Gold Queen, is a brother to Roi I'Or. A big, upstanding chestnut, he has been troubled with iinsoundness off and on. • Purser, who has .not raced for the best part of a season, was always a very speedy pacer, Which was only natural with a New Zealand Derby winner. He did not stay well later on, however, and, in all, he has been disappointing. • ~ ■ Lord Wrack, who has not raced for some eighteen months, only recently returned to work. He showed useful form up to improvers' class when previously trained by Thomas, and is shaping up satisfactorily again. PROMISING THREE-STEAR-OLD. The most promising youngster in the stable is a three-year-old brother to Ideal and Trevor, de Oro. He is a clean-gaited pacer, and is built on more solid lines than his brothers, who have both won up to two miles in good times. He is not engaged at. Wellington, but his Derby 'engagement has been continued. Ideal looks as though a race will do him good. He has not been the luckiest of racehorses to date, but in spite of this he has . demonstrated that he has the ability to improve his present tn3.rlv3 r ' ■ Worthy Audubon raced fairly consistently at North Island meetings last season, and his prospects of paying his way this season are fair. He is not strong in stamina, but can be placed to advantage at the smaller meetings. Diversion has built up in condition. She is doing a lot of her work at the trotting gait, but will continue to race as a, pacer. She should be a useful member of the team at summer meetings. ' ! CUP VETERAN. Glenrossie is progressing well in his New Zealand Cup preparation. He has contested the premier event more times than any other horse in the field, and finished second to Harold Logan in 1932 ■ S. A. Eagan has Mabel Chimes and the maiden pacer Playful engaged on Saturday. Mabel Chimes was not solid in her races at Addington, and has to give long starts to some promising young trotters on Saturday. * Playful, a four-year-old gelding by Worthy Bingen, is a smart type, but may need racing experience. T C Leadbetter has Ropata looking well, and the David McElwyn four-year-old has furnished a good deal. He is more than holding his own in work with Guy Zolock and Stepson, two other Hutt Park regulars. . Another who is engaged in the maiden events on Saturday is Snowy Bingen, a Worthy Bingen gelding who showed some speed in patches in one or two of his races last season. He. looks as though'he has done, a lot of serviceable work. Snowy Bingen is owned and trained by G. Patton.