OTAHUHU TROTTING CLUB’S SPRING MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 715, 19 November 1903, Page 11

OTAHUHU TROTTING CLUB’S SPRING MEETING.

The opening day of the Otahuhu Trotting Club’s Spring Meeting proved highly successful, the sport being good, while there was a capital attendance to witness the racing. Mr Fred Yonge, the new secretary, is to be warmly commended for his up-to-date' arrangements for the success of the meeting, which were very generally remarked on. Mr Lusk acted as judge, and Mr Cutts as starter, in their usual efficient manner. Betting proved fairly brisk, the sum of £2330 10s going through the machine, which is a big advance on the. corresponding day of last year’s meeting. In the opening event, the Maiden Trot, Red Leaf and Le Rosier were made exactly even favourites, and they ran home in that order after a very close finish, with Black Diamond several lengths off, third. , For the Suburban Trot, Sir Robert was served up a pretty hot stuff, but the Imperious gelding Imperator had a verysoft win, Belladonna finishing about fifty yards behind him, and the favourite a bad third. After her victory at Ellerslie among the big horses, nothing would go down with punters but Annoyed for the Spring Pony Handicap, and the Regel mare justified the confidence by winning m easy fashion from Lady Lottie and Orange and Blue, the rider of the latter mare being fined for not persevering with his mount. The Harness Trot fell to a warm favourite in Le Rosier, who finished some twenty yards ahead of Mooress, with Polly 11. a l ike distance further away third. . . The public were right again in their estimation of the probabilities in the Pony Trot, for the two best backed ones, Miss Munro and Eric, finished close together in the order of favouritism. Taihoa was the supposed good thing for the Electric Trot, but he never ~ot up to his field, Miss Hu on winning very comfortably from Isabel, with the favourite an indifferent third. For the Tramway Handicap, Orange and Blue w>as backed as though the race was over, with Cuisine next in demand, but neither filled a place, a victory having to be recorded * for the disappointing. Solitary, who, for once, was in a galloping humour. Sentinel and Garnet finished so close together that Mr Lusk could not separate them. The day’s racing was concluded with the November Handicap, for which Baxter and Duke C. were considered the likeliest to score. The winner turned up in the bay mare Typewriter, who beat Waitekauri by six yards, with Colenso in third place.