COMING BY STEAMER

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 225, 20 June 1944, Page 6

COMING BY STEAMER

Southern Horses For Trentham Dominion Special Service. INVERCARGILL, June 18. The Wingatui trainer A. E. Didham arrived at Invercargill yesterday with six horses. He is.en route to Wellington by coastal steamer and is spending a tew days ashore with his horses while the boat Is loading at Bluff. His team consists of Boloyna, Notary, Strip, Monetary, Invincible and the Riverton-owned filly Royal Flight. Didham took over Royal Flight after the Dunedin meeting and will have charge of her on the northern trl Flve of W, E. Hazlett's horses. AngloFrench, Noko, True Range, Spanish'Main, and Aurora Australis, were taken to Washdyke after the Dunedin meeting and will later move on to Ricearton. Noko will contest the hurdle race at the South Canterbury meeting and, ail going well, will be a competitor at the Wellington meeting. He will be accompanied to Trentham bv True Range. Aurora Australis mav be given a race at Washdyke.. Spanish Main will contest the Pareora Steeplechase and will then be sent home.. AU the horses have done well on the trip. Jack o' Lantern and Llsheen will not fulfil their Washdyke engagements They were brought back to Invercargill after the. Dunedin meeting and will probably not be required to race till the Otago Hunt meeting in September Minton will not fulfil his YY ashdyke engagement, and lie is to bo spoiled till it is time to prepare him for steoplechasiug next year; The Nigger Minstrel gelding gained three firsts and a second across country this year and won £<llo In stakes. He is onlv rising seven years and should, make further improvement, next winter. After racing at Wingatui. the hurdler AValtoru was taken over by the Mashdyke trainer K. J. Ellis, who will he in charge of him till after the Grand National meeting. The very bad going was blamed for Waitoru's poor form at M ingatui and he will probably be better if he strikes decent winter going in the north. Heidelberg will also bo an absentee at Washdvke. The Lord Warden gelding was showing signs of soreness after racing nt Wingatui, and he was brought back to Invercargill for a spell.