PACERS AND TROTTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 4

PACERS AND TROTTERS

NOTES FROM HUTT PARK

(By "Tho Eagle.")

With the. holding of the Autumn Meeting, of the. Wellington Trotting Club, there is not much likelihood of any further trotting locally until September next, and attention is now being given to reconditioning the tracks. The club has secured 200 yards of clay, and this is being sprea_d on the clay track, on the conclusion of which work the- course proper is to be resown with grass . seed and topdressed with lime and fertiliser. .Local trainers are keeping their teams going with a view to autumn racing. The majority will .be found competing on the Xaranaki circuit, which commences with the Huwera Meeting on Easter Saturday and Monday, being followed by the Tarariaki Trotting Club's Meeting on .-April 22, apd the Wanganui Club on April 29. L. 0. Thomas will probably divide his team at Easter, sending one contingent on the Taranaki trip, and also having representatives at the Metropolitan Trotting Club's Meeting at Addington. J. Pringle, who has acted as private trainer for J. R. Corrigan at Hawera since the beginning of the season, has relinquished that-position, and will take up his old berth as head man with L. 0. Thomas at the Hutt. ■ :

Mr. E. Sullivan lias leased Guy Star to the Blenheim trainer S. A. Eagan.. The speedy son of Real Guy is a very smart beginner, but so far has failed to see out his races. If his new trainer can improvehim a little in stamina he will soon be rewarded with a, win. In the meantime Mr. Sullivan is jogging his old favourite Billy Brent.

Historian, who proved a disappointment since being trained.in Auckland, is back again with his owner'at the Hutt, and with his younger full-brother, Chronicler, 'is being indulged in the lightest of work. On Saturday morning David McEhvyn and Chenaway worked a strong mile and a half together. Chenaway appeared to lose all form after being operated, on in the spring, but is now showing signs of staging a come-back.

Drusern, whose excitability ori race days made, him a complete disappointment when called on tc race in company, as he.would not put a loot right,' has been handed over to the-veteran, E. Maidraent, to see if he can work an improvement in the. manners of the rattleheaded son of Drusus.

8.. ilaidment has the Nelson Bingen— Kate Zolock gelding hitting out in fine style af Hutt Park, and on appearances he promises to be a more solid sort than his half-brother Brent Zoloek.

■ Derby Thorpe, who scored his maiden victory at the Manawatu Meeting,.is being kept' ijp to the collar by'L. O. Thomas, and. with the possibility o£ the tracks becoming easier, another win for the Nelson Derby three-year-old should notbe far off.