TROTTING
MANAWATU MEETING AWAPUNI TO-MORROW GOOD FIELDS ENGAGED The interest aroused in trotting at the Wanganui Club’s meetings last month was intensified at* the Hawera Easter fixture and was further added to at New Plymouth, where the Taranaki Trotting Club held a very successful revival meeting. To-morrow the Manawatu Trotting Club will hold their annual one-day fixture at the Awapuni Racecourse, and the indications are that the club will benefit materially through the activities of the other clubs on the circuit. The fields promise to be the largest experienced by clubs on the circuit on this coast, and with the horses all about the top of their form some keen and thrilling contests may be anticipated. Class is well represented in the more advanced classes, and it is gratifying to find the races for straightout trotters have attracted many high-grade exponents of the squaregait, and in both the Awapuni and McDonald handicaps good exhibitions can be anticipated. The Cup and President’s Handicap fields contain some of the best improving two miles and sprint horses in the Dominion and given a fine track fast times should be recorded.
The totalisator will be operated on the single-pool system, but the club is providing a share of the pool for the third horse where the numbers of starters is nine or more, the proportions then being 70, 20, and 10 for first, second, and third, respectively. With the number of starters ranging from five to eight, inclusive, there would be two dividends on the 75-25 proportion.
In the Longburn Handicap, acceptances published on Wednesday, Pampas was omitted, and his inclusion brings the number of acceptors for that event up to 18. The programme to-morrow will be run off in the following order, the starting times being as indicated:— 12.15.—Ladies’ Bracelet. 12.55. —Awapuni Handicap. 1.35. —Pohangina Handicap. 2.15. Manawatu Trotting Cup. 2.ss.—Longburn Handicap. 3.35. —Stewards’ Handicap. 4.15. —McDonald Handicap. 5.0 —President’s Handicap.
An advertisement calls attention to the fact that Yellow Cabs will have cars available for the trots at Awapuni to-morrow.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 89, 16 April 1937, Page 4
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