WINCATUI NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1929, Page 8

WINCATUI NOTES

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to. "The Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day I'ink Note is still on the easy list and will not be taken up again until after the holiday meetings are over. This horse, it will bo remembered, went wrong on the eve of the Wellington spring meeting when lie was going very well. He will not be ready to race again until the autumn meetings.

.Lhe report which appeared in some of the northern papers to the effect that Dumhlano had been kept at Riccartou for a spell after the Cup Meeting last month is not correct. He is still a member of I'eildmg's team at Wingatui, and has been doing easy work during the past fortnight. Royal Saxon was given a let-up after his strenuous racing at Riccarton last month, but has joined the active brigade again Last year Royal Saxon won the Invercargill Cup very convincingly, and looked like making a stayer, but he is too hard a puller in the early stages of the race and it has been decided to restrict him to sprint and middle-distance events at the coming holiday fixtures. Mr Cecil Hazlett has leased All Smiles irom Mr. J. White, and she is now beiii" trained by Fred Shaw. This mare ha! shown promise in her schooling efforts over hurdles, and under Shaw's care should do well. Mr. Hazlett, who has always shown a partiality for junipers, is reported to have also taken over Star Tractor.

if' *J VO;yeiu>old fiHy by Paladin from Ada ilerhng, therefore a half-sister to that good horse Red Wink, j s in Gieseler's stable, and is shaping well. She has been purchased outright by Mr. Miller, who used to race Lady Lucy. Another recent arrival in Gieseler's stable is a good-looking three-year-old "elding by the imported stallion Fleetham from Red Pal, who will race in Dr Roger's colours.

.Amongst the latest recruits to hurdling at Wnißatui are Martis, Bellicose and Jimmy Trigger. Martis and Jimmy Trigger were schooled over the pony hurdles each shaping well. Bellicose and Jimmy lngger were raced over a couple of ordinary schooling hurdles, and with plenty of pace on they gave an- excellent display Jimmy Trigger is likely to be raced over steeplechase courses this season