TROTTING

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 15

TROTTING

FIRST DAY AT HAWERA GETTING THE MONEY FORM REVIEWED Wanganui form, as indicated by “Abaydos,” proved a reliable guide for backers at Hawera on the opening day. Lee Nelson, Brian Bingen, Harold Logan, Logan's Pride, Great Author and Olive Nelson, all of which showed fine form the previous week, succeeded in returning dividends on Saturday. The racing was interesting and many stirring finishes were witnessed.

When Le© Nelson got beaten at Wanganui lie was* hitched to a cumbersome sulky which impeded his progress to some extent. When Bill Head paraded the Nelson Derby youngster at Hawera the conveyance was of modern type, and Lee Nelson made his rivals look cheap in the opening event. The only surprise about the performance was the fine price returned.

Matchmaker, a three-year-old by Waverley from Lovematcli, was

elected favourite for the novice event, but while he succeeded in getting second berth had no show of heading off the winner. Had Capilano not lost ground at the start she would have taken this position from the Bryce candidate at the finish.

For some time past Nelson Parrish has not been showing his best form

and he failed to stay in his races after travelling a mile. In the Matapu Handicap the son of Guy Parrish was a winner with half of the 12 furlongs covered, and his job was made easier afterward by the breaking of the other runners in the final stages. Leo Berkett’s trotter paid a remunerative figure.

Half a mile from home in the mile and a-half trot Brian Bingen was at the tail end of the field, having made a bad break in the earlier stages. H. Garnett persuaded the squaregaited son of Nelson Bingen to keep to the correct gait for the remainder of the journey, and profiting by the errors of liis rivals, he strode comfortably into second place. He is improvijng nicely for the Ashliurst trainer.

Harold Logan looked and proved the best of good things in the Stratford Handicap, and he fairly romped in at the business end, registering 3.28 1-5 from a 3.36 mark. R. Humphreys drove the Logan Pointer gelding a confident race, but when he hit the front lie kept the whip flourishing right to the box. For this lapse the reinsman was fined £5. *• * * Rangihou won a mile and a-lialf event at Hastings recently in a tick worse than 3.29, but three later starts saw him well beaten from a 3.36 peg in a 3.40 class. On Saturday J. H. Lloyd’s gelding was off the front of the 3.36 heat and again he managed to register 3.29, but had to be content with second money, as Harold Logan paralysed him in the run to the judge. Rangiliou’s second dividend was much in excess of the winner’s.

How good is Logan’s Pride? This was the chief question asked after the Petone-trained gelding had defeated the strong Cup field. Nicely driven by D. Watts, Logan’s Pride was always handy and when Warplane and Enawah were hard at it the Logan Pointer pacer dashed past them to win decisively. He was favoured with a good passage, but his performance was a meritorious one.

The honours of the Hawera Cup can be ungrudgingly handed to Warplane. He did not begin too well and at one stage of the contest was not any too well off for position. When the final lane was entered J. Shaw asked the black gelding for an effort, and gamely did he respond, but there was not sufficient sting in the punch to K.O. Logan’s Pride. Warplane tramped 4.31 —a sterling performance.

When Olive Nelson began to switch her tail at the end of a mile in the Manaia Trot, many of her admirers thought of selling out, taking it as a distress signal. But such was not the case, and the Karamea-owned and trained mare finished on her lonesome. So well did the Nelson Bingen mare accomplish her task, she would have gone another mile and been further in front. Only a four-year-old, Jim Simpson has a real good one in the making.

J. T. Paul found .Paradigm quite a handful for three parts of the twomile route of the Manaia Trot. The son of Childe Audubon was trotting well in patches, but his lapses were bad. However, he settled down to his work over the final half-mile and that was the end of the second dividend as far as the rest were concerned. J.T. should do all right with the Benjamin representative.

J. Gerrard did not bustle Ngahuia over the opening half of the Nomanby mile dash, and lie was content to lay in behind the leading brigade. Then he moved up handy for the run in the straight, and when the speed spool was unwound it was “good-bye’’ to the opposition. The Hastings pacer went 2.14 4-5 from 2.19, and did it on his head.

Little Guy was withdrawn from the Hawera Cup, as lie had been suffering from a slight chill. But Alex. Corrigan elected to tackle Ngahuia in the mile and Great Hope’s half-brother was made a good favourite. The chestnut went a real good race, but second was the best he could do. Good as the Real Guy four-year-old is, Ngahuia made him appear cheap in the last half-furlong. Just why Great Author, who ran a close second to Logan’s Pride at Wanganui in the Liverpool Handicap, was not supported in )Treference to Gold Treasure for the President’s Handicap is a mystery. In receipt of 12yds from Logan’s Pride, Great Author was only a length away the previous Saturday. After the former won the Hawera Cup it looked good business to be with the West Coast pacer, and home he duly came to register 4.3 S off a 4.47 mark.

Bonniewah was the surprise packet in the slow two-mile event. Going smartly to the front she acted as pacemaker' well into the straight, where Great Author ran past her to win easily. But the Peterwah mare hung

on gamely and defied Gold Terasure to take the practically double-figure dividend from her backers. H. Garnett is getting Bonniewah to race more solidly.

El Direct was allowed to pay a false price in the last race of the day. In the Cup he showed a lot of speed for the major portion of the journey, and after a smart performance over a mile in saddle recently in the South, good judges were on his side. He won in fine style at the right end. Queen Elizabeth and Riehore. the Corrigan bracket, provided a thrill at the finish of the 10-furlong event when they passed the post together in second place. J. T. Paul was behind Riehore and he kept him going all the way to the box. Queen Elizabeth ran her usual consistent race.