NEW PLYMOUTH NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 87, 9 October 1931, Page 4

NEW PLYMOUTH NOTES

WORR ON THE, TRACKS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day.

There has been very little fast work on the New Plymouth tracks during the last week, most of. the • trainers restricting ■their.charges to-tasks.of the useful sort, but with theVapproach of the Waverley Meeting, on Labour Day they will be doing faster work- shortly. Gold Dawn, who beat Orapai and Lady Quex at the local hunt gathering, is looking very well. She was given a spin over five furlongs on Tuesday morning, and left the distance behind in lmin sseq without being extended. She should be a very fit mare by Labour Day. The big Lackham three-year-old, Gibraltar, has come through his recent racing well, and is still improving. He is to be prepared for the Waverley. Cup, and if -he performs satisfactorily there, is likely to go to Riccarton to contest the New Zealand Derby. v

The Swell has been accorded a nomination for the hurdles at Waverley, and from the work he is being given it appears likely that he will be a starter. In company with Spanish Prince he gave a fine exhibition over four fences, even though he dislodged his rider at the last one.

Though nothing serious has been asked of Cornerman since Wanga.iui, the Nigger Minstrel three-year-old is getting through the task* allotted him in good style. His style of galloping suggests that he will probably do better over a distance. He iwfll b« teen out at Waverley, and will carry plenty of local support. Old Monaghan is standing up to his work in good style. He was sent over a mile and a quarter the other morning, and, though there was not a great deal of pace on, he finished up very strongly. He figures among the nominations for the Cup at Waverley.