WELLINGTON CLUB

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 13

WELLINGTON CLUB

ONE-DAY FIXTURE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24 GOOD PARD ARRANGED The Wellington Trotting Club will hold the second of its four one-day fixtures for the 1928-29 season at Hutt Park on November 24, and an attractive programme has been drafted, which should ensure good fields. The Wellington fixture is always, a popular one with Canterbury owners, and at each Hutt Park carnival there is a majority of Southern horses found competing. The arranging of the meeting on this occasion to follow on. the Otahuhu carnival should find favour with both Northern and Southern owners, and the horses from Canterbury taking part at the Otahuhu fixture will no doubt be found breaking their homeward journey at Welllington. It is quite on the cards that a number of Auckland provincial horses will this year make the trip to Hutt Park, as the meeting at that centre fits in nicely between Otahuhu and the Waikato Club’s carnival early in December. The sum of £2,050 will be distributed in stake money for the eight events on the card, no race being of less value than £2OO, while three of the items are well endowed. Principal Events The two chief heats are the Electric Handicap, £4OO, and November Handicap, £ 350. The former is run over a ten-furlong course, and gives the speed merchants a chance to get busy, the limit being fixed at 2.46, equivalent to 2.13 to the mile. The November Handicap is a twomile event for horses that are capable of doing 4.36* or better, and with so many now qualifying for this intermediate section, it is a popular selection with owners. Next in importance comes the saddle heat, the Sharpe Handicap, endowed

to the extent of £ 300, and run over eight furlongs, with a 2.16 limit, and such an interesting event is sure to fill well. Improvers’ Classes HT he improving classes —and their name is legion—are well catered for by the Wellington organisation, the stage being adorned with three settings for their benefit. Tlie recognised novices have an elastic limit of 3.42 to the Trial Handicap, which is scheduled for 12 furlongs, and in the event of some of this class being good enough, as often happens, to knock corners off their handicap, the Railway Handicap appears later on the card over a similar distance, with a 3.34 limit. Then, for those who can see out a longer journey, the Middle Class Handicap has been included, the distance selected being two miles, while those entering will be set to do the task in 4.47 or better. All the items -for improvers are allotted stake money at £ 200. The Square-gaiters Two contests for trotters are included on the programme, and have been arranged uniformly, on a basis of 2.30 to the mile, while each is endowed with £2OO. The Nai Nai Handicap gives those who prefer the shorter distance of 12 furlongs an opportunity, with a limit of 3.45, while trotters who can tramp an extra halfmile, at this rate will find the Wilford Handicap to their liking. Five minutes is the limit set to this two-mile contest, and these events will probably also draw good fields. Auckland owners intending to nominate for the Wellington fixture should not fail to note that entries for all events c.lose with the secretary, Mr. R. W. Short, Petone, on Friday, November 2, not later than 8 p.m. TROTTING FIXTURES Metropolitan T.C.—Nov. 6, 8. 9: Otahuhu T.C.—Nov. 17, 21. Wellingoon T.C.—Nov. 24. , Forbury Park T.C.—Nov. 29. Deo. 1. Waikato T.C.—Dec. 8. Westport T.C.—Dec. 26, 27. Auckland T.C. —Dec. 27, 29, 31. Winton T.C.—Dec. 29.

OTAHUHU ENTRIES AWNERS and trainers are reminded that nominations for all events on the programme for the Otahuhu Club’s spring carnival close on Friday evening at 5 o’clock with secretary R. L. Absolum, at the club’s office, O’Connell Street. The card, which was previously reviewed at length in the columns of THE SUN, is an attractive one, and cannot fail to draw a liberal response from those with horses eligible to take part in the fixture.