SOUTHLAND TROTTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 11

SOUTHLAND TROTTING

BIG FIELDS AT WYNDHAM TO-MORROW’S FIXTURE The annual cup fixture of the Wyndham Trotting Club will be held to-morrow when some highclass sport is promised. Although the Southern club has only been racing as a totalisator body for a few years, it has made good progress, and the annual fixture is one of the nopular light-harness items on Southland’s calendar. For many years, however, trotting events figured an the Wyndham Racing Club programme and these created a measure of popularity that encouraged the enthusiastic adherents to the pastime to place trotting firmly on the sporting map. A permit being secured, the initial fixture was held in 1925, when First Glance secured the principal heat, the Wyndham Cup. Moor Chimes won

the following year, and Chimer was the 1927 winner. Last March the limit of the “king pin” handicap was reduced to 4-48 when Revolt established the race record of 4.39. In this year’s Cup several recent winners in Shady Spot, Fair Wave, Sunshower, Country King and the veteran Lenamhor. are billed to appear while Chimer will make his second attempt to capture the prize. The following should find support in their respective engagements: Novice Handicap. Sunfire. Sunblc^>m. Ferry Handicap.— Helen McGregorKyra bracket, Snider. Cup.—Fair Wave. Shady Spot. Kdendale Handicap.—Sea Hawk, Reo Chimes. Toi Tois Handicap—Winnie Chrysler, Imperial Thorpe. _ . Menzies Handicap. Gardeneiia, Sunspeck. Presidents’ Handicap.— Play Wave, Bricklayer. Final Handicap.—Logan Hanlon. .Counlry King.