TROTTING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19719, 9 December 1926, Page 4

TROTTING

WELLINGTON MEETING CUP TO PETER EINGEN. WELLINGTON, Dec. 8. There was a good attendance for the first day of the Wellington Trotting Club's meeting and splendid weather prevailed. There was good trotting and some exciting finishes were seen. The totalisator handled £16,334, which was less than last year, but then only a oneday meeting was held, whereas a second day’s trotting will be held on Saturday. The New Zealand Gold Cup attracted a classy field and the event was won by a Christchurch horse, Mr G. S. Simpson’s Peter Bingen, trained by J. J. Kennerley. In the Electric Handicap, won by Grant and Winter’s Black Admiral, trained by M. B. Edwards, of Christchurch, some splendid trotting was witnessed, rousing the spectators to enthusiasm, liesuits:— Novice Handicap.—3 Great Earl (W. Warren) 1,2 Roamer 2, 8 Maud Logyn 3. Eight lengths; two lengths. Time, 3.36 4-5.

Nai Nai Handicap. —2 Louissina (L. Berkett) 1, 1 Great Elect 2, 11 Hardy Grattan 3. A head; a length. Time. 3.43. Sharpe' Handicap.—2 Amaris (L. Cavalier) I , 1 Bi colour 2, 12 Beat ty 3. Three lengths; three lengths. Time, 2.17. New Zealand Gold Cup. (Of 600 sovs.; 2 miles.) S—PETER BINGEN (Mr G. 8. Simpson), 72yds., J. J. Kennerley 1 3—TOM THUMB, ser., J. W. Frizzell 2 2—HOLLY BOY, 12yds., W. J. Tomkinson 3 Also: 9 Young Blake, 7 Brentloc, 6 Menember, 1 Taurekareka, 11 Bing Boy, 4 Billy Sea, 8 Countryman, 10 Sea Pearl. A neck; a length; a neck. Time, 4.31. Middle Class Handicap.—s Peter Swirt (D. Withers) 1, 6 Black Cloud 2,2 Van Rich 3. A length; eight lengths. Time, 4.39 2-5. Electric Handicap.—2 Black Admiral (M. C. Edwards) 1, 5 Onyx 2, 1 Prince Pointer 3. Four lengths; two lengths. Time, 2.45. High Class Trotters’ Handicap.—l Pete' Peter (AV. J. Tompkinson) 1, 9 Charles Dixie 2,2 Master Audo 3. A neck; two lengths. Time, 4.44 4-5. Speedaway Handicap.—l Holly Boy (W. J. Tompkinson) 1,2 Logan Holm 2, 3 Bing Boy 3. Half a head; four lengths. Time, 2.50.