HAWERA CLUB’S EASTER EGGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 570, 24 January 1929, Page 11

HAWERA CLUB’S EASTER EGGS

ATTRACTIVE CARD ABLY ARRANGED BY EXECUTIVE The Hawera Trotting Club, which races annually on Easter and Monday, is again to the fore with an attractive card for its 1929 carnival, during which the sum of £4,030 will be distributed in stake money. Outside of the metropolitan meetings in New Zealand no club caters in a more appreciable degree for owners and trainers and the general public than the Hawera Trotting Club, and the growth of this live-wire country organisation has been accordingly remarkable. The right men are at the head of the movement, and when it comes to general they are not i n the ability and enterprise which spell success. The fixture this .ye#.r is set down for decision on March 30 and April 1, and the programme has been drafted on lines that cannot fail to suit the requirements of owners in both the North and South Islands. The Chief Items The chief events are the Hawera Cup. valued at £6OO, including a handsome silver cup, which is contested on the opening day, and the Waimate Plains Handicap, of £450, decided on Easter Monday. Both items are run over a two-mile journey, and are open to horses that are capable of tramping 4.40 or better. Candidates taking part in these richly endowed heats are also given a chance of competing over shorter courses, the Elthara Handicap, li miles, of £220, with a 2.54 limit, on Saturday, and the Stewards’ Handicap, one mile, 2.21 limit, for a similar stake, on the final day, suiting their requirements. Saddle merchants are allotted a race each day, to which £ 200 has been awarded as prize money. On the first day the Normanby Handicap, one mile, 2.20 class, calls for attention, while the later heat is run over a ten-furlong course with a limit of 2.55. Improvers’ Chances A rare opportunity is afforded the improving section, each day’s card opening with a 12-furlong event, valued at £2OO, with a reasonable limit of 3.40; approximately 2.27 to the mile. Two other items set over two miles with 4.50 as a guide to the front line, the President’s and KaPonga Handicaps, are gifted with £220, and then there is a mile and a-half heat each day for horses that can tramp 3.36 or faster, prizes for which are ticked off at £2OO. Square-Gaited Section The square-gaiters have not been neglected by those who compiled the Easter schedule, two items each day being set aside for their special benefit, the distances being one and a-half and two miles, with respective limits of 3.45 and 4.50. On the initial day the shorter race—Matapu Handicap—is worth £2OO, while that run over the longer course—Manoia Handicap —carries an addition of £SO. On Monday the stakes are the same, the corresponding items being the Ohawe and Opunake Handicaps. The club’s up-to-date secretary, E. P. Cox, will receive entries for all events on Friday, March 8, and handicaps for the first day’s card will be declared by the newly-appointed adjuster, O. E. Gooseman, of Hamilton, on March 19.