AT HUTT PARK

NZ Truth, Issue 1190, 20 September 1928, Page 13

AT HUTT PARK

(By "The Toff.")

W7HEN racing began at Petone the w course was soft, certain portions of it being under water due to the heavy rain that fell on the eve of the Wellington fixture. • • # At New Brighton and at Wellington the Addington-trained pacer Linkman was backed to win bfg money, but his inability to begin quickly cost him first prize at the seaside course, and his chance at Petone. In addition to a- very slow getaway at Wellington he did not handle the soft going as well as it was expected he would. The first time that Drift Wave | steps out over ten furlongs on a I good traok she will get the money. She has sufficient pace to win a short race. - ' • .'».-# Waa Louisiana caught napping m the Petone Trot at Wellington ? It looked as if she was, for when W. Warren brought Young Carbine along with a rush over the last hundred yards, L. F. Berkett, driver of Louisiana, nearly fell out of his cart. The result was that Louisiana's home-and-dried assumed win was converted into a second. • ■ .* • • • Mercury's two inglorious exhibitions at Wellington must have left his backers pretty sore. .During the time he has, been at the Yaldhurst restaurant he either must have gone off, or the track at Petone was too tricky for him. Or do you think that by some mischance, that his hopples were a couple of holes too long for him? . His future deeds will throw light on his doings m the past.