AVONDALE REHANDICAPS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 80, 2 October 1933, Page 6

AVONDALE REHANDICAPS

'■ (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, October 1. ■ Rehandlcaps for the first day of tho Avondalo Jockey Club's Spring Meeting on October 14 arc:— i Klngsland Hlghwctght Handicap, of 100 soys; Hi miles.—Cape Fair, 31b, making. 10.4. Flying Stakes Handicap, yt 200 soys; G furlongs.—Foreign Queen, 31b, making 8.5.

PACERS AND TROTTERS

NOTES FROM HUTT PARK

(By "Th« Eagle") A bright spring morning, with the cinder track in first-class order, mudo conditions ideal for training at Hutt Park on. Saturday morning. Hemlock Hero (Don Nyhau) and Jewel Elect (Miss Njhan) woe the first to woik. The pair finished together with Jewel Elect under a pull. * Logan's Pride, Glenrossie, Pnrsi-r, and Sunrancs wore associated over one and a halt miles. Logan's Piide, who had the best of the jump-out, led the rest homo after a good display. Foster. Cctton has the old fellow looking in great trim. Huia Maid, who is still a shade on the big side, had Chronicler and Joan Parrisk as companions over a mile and a quarter, the grey finishing in front. Though Jean Parrish has;not beeu long in training the gave a capital display. Lord Wrack and Derby Thorpe finished together over a, mile and a half. The good showing of Lord Wrack when he finished' third to Agile and Bingen Chief, in the Give Handicap at the Hawke's, Bay> Meeting, was very encouraging to his connections. Pifior to going into L. O. Thomas's hands, this horse, who is a fullbrother to the trotter Sea Mitt, was tried at both the trotting and pacing gaits by the Auckland trainer, P. J. Smith, without showing much promise, but now as a four-yeai-old ho looks like making hia party an early return. After covering a mile alone, tlie trotter Blue and Gold was joined by Flintlock, and went on to give a nice display o£ tiotting. OKI Speculator '.trotted two miles at a steady pace, as did Druscrn. who is making steady, improvement. Max Havoc and ■ a Maxegin gelding in Njhan's charge tovered a mile and a quarter, together. ', Lola Bingen, -who is still being tried as a trotter, and a number of youngsters were also exerct'ed. That J. K." McKenzie made a ■« isc ohoice when-ho'secured J. Dcvwdson to train hi* team wts demonstrated at Methven on Saturday, when his Great Bingen four-year-olds,, Taxpayer and Tollgatc, were both successful. The win of the former in the Methven Cup was * particularly brilliant effort, recording as he did 4min 2foec from a 4min 37tsec mark. A meeting between Taxpayer and his rival of last season, lidianapplis, will be full of interest should it eventuate. However. as Indianapolis is now on 4min 31eec for two miles and Taxpayer will be on 4min 34sce, the odds would be all in favour ot the Great Bingen colt at present. Although Little Nelson failed to secure. a place in five starts as a three-year-old, he showed great improvement last season as a four-year-old, when he scored four wins1 in five starts, his only defeat being in the Cheviot Gup, in which lie became involved in a mix-up that occurred in the running and lost his driver when appearing to have a great it-inning chance. After an unplaced performance in the Rakaia Handicap at'.Ashburton, his] brilliant victory in the Avonmbre Handicap at Metliven on Saturday shows that the son of Nelson Derby—Little Doris is on the way to secure high honours this season. In covering the■ mile.an^-a half in Stnih IS 3-ssee from 3min'3ls€C'it seems that he would have set War Buoy, wh6 would have been in receipt of 24yds start-had he competed, a very hard task to keep in front of him at the finish. . . • When Morello ran fourth in the Sapling Stakes in his onlr start as a two-year-old, many had,'a''good word ,to say for the chestnut'sou of Rey de Ore— Moonlit, and his easy victory in the Westward Ho Handicap at Methven on Saturday last, in which .he , made his three-year-old debut, shows Mm up as a dangerous opponent for War Buoy in the Derby at Addington. Indeed, on the form shown ,by . the. three-year-olds so far this teasoii, Morello looks this most likely one to bring about 'the'defeat of the Sapling Stakes- victor. . :■ ! Mr. E. F. CV Hinds, owner of Harold Logan, -has-secured the services of J. S. Shaw to .take charge of Tactless- and Ngingongingo.for a, trip north to,compete at the Waikato and Auckland^^Trotting Club's; Meetings. Ngingohgingo did not do too well during his recent trjp to Wellington, but has since freshened up, and if in the right mood might secure ft; stake in the north. ' . ; .;.