NOTES FROM WELLINGTON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22609, 28 June 1935, Page 13

NOTES FROM WELLINGTON

(Special to Daily Times) WELLINGTON, June 27.. O. Geisler arrived from Wingatui this morning with Lycidas and Unseen, and went out to Trentham. Unseen will be taken to Levin to-morrow and will probably run in both his engagements there on Saturday. He will be ridden by an apprentice and the allowance claimed. Geisler is confident that Unseen will run well in both starts. The single pool system of. betting will operate at Levin, with two in fields of five or over. There appears from the acceptance list no prospect of a single dividend field. The official starting times are as follows:—li.4s, 12.25, 1.5, 1.45, 2.25, 3.5, and 3.50. Colenso and The Ranger will not be making the trip from Trentham to Levin. Diamond, Arctic King, Copenna, and Sundancer will be the representatives from local stables. Diamond will be ridden by F. Thompson, G. Ridgway being out of action with the shoulder injured off Ar. ct i° Star at Napier on Saturday. No rider hag been engaged for Arctic King yet. Diamond has been schooling satisfactorily and looks like giving a good account of himself. Arctic King was soundly beaten over seven furlongs this morning by Bright aid Croupier, but he is not a good track worker, and T. R. George's pair have been working exceptionally well lately. Autopay, who figures amongst the sprinters at the Wellington winter meeting, has not raced since the summer meeting at Trentham in January, where, at his second last start, he finished second to Wheriko. Since then he has had a spell from which he came in looking as well as ever, and Ebb Simpson is now beginning to send him along a bit in short sprints. The trainer R. W. Lewis discounts the statement from Auckland that Billy Boy is a spent light. He struck himself at Te Rapa, and it was not considered advisable to start him at Ellerslie, though he was fit enough again by that time. Billy Boy is a daily worker on the hill roads round Trentham, and is a definite starter in the Wellington Steeplechase. Billy Boy and Verden will be ridden here by E. Burgess.