GREEN LINNET FIT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 11

GREEN LINNET FIT

HAWERA TRACK , NOTES

(Specjal from "Limited.") ; HAWERA, This Day. The Wanganui Autumn Meeting, which commences tomorrow, has not attracted the usual number of Hawera horses, and only six are booked to race there on the opening day. These will be Davistock, Green Linnet, Peschiera, Calamine, Marjoram, and Golden Hair. The last-named has been rehandicapped at 92, and it has not been definitely decided- yet whether she shall be produced. Tenacre will not-race tomorrow, but will be taken down for the-hurdle race on Saturday. W. Grindlay, who - has schooled him at Hawera,-and who rode a well-judged race on him at New Plymouth, will ride him. again. ..--1- . . - The apprentice, Wattie" Pine, who acquitted himself well on Golden Hair and. Miss Cavendish at.New Plymouth, is to ride Navaho and Bonnie Vale in their engagements.- V. Weston has been engaged to ride Invietus on-.Saturday: K. Voitre.is: to ride Green Linnet in the Tayforth Handicap. ••;.'.' ..- The horses were out on the Hawera tracks ■ yesterday,, 'when all fast work was performed oh the trial grass, which .was in. good- order. ': Only .horses with; immediate engagements -were galloped.'-; .7 :."' ": ', . Aga Khan> whose "next" outing • will be at the TeAroha Meeting, was given light exercise. Apart ■ fromj^showirig signs of getting down, oh his heels; he is'in splendid condition: after-his-good showing at New Plymouth, where he displayed ability to^getover a distance in good style. '•_. 2rougt's maiden, Shilloilg, with" the Ruapapa roan mare for a Companion, galloped half a mile nicely. iri'-Slse.. Shillong will probably go down to Wanganui for Saturday's/racing. '' ":: •-.'."- Gibraltar; who has joined lip with' J. Fryer . team, -was out .doing. light- exercise. He has been nominated for 7 the Herries Memorial Crip' at Te Aioha;' and all going -well is to: make" the trip. "The distance, a; mile; arid three furlongs, should suit him.' Last' year,.the■-' Hawera^-trairied Peter - Jackson was successful iri winning thi. race under Fryer's meritorship.- -'."•"." v The. Catmint gelding Marjoram; now mM. Conway's care, is showing decided iriiprovement, and. galloped a mile by himself quite attractively, maintaining. an even pace.. He ran his fijst "half-mile 7 ins 2; l-ssec, six . furlongs ih.lriun; 19_ec, and finished up. in Imm 45sec. Like.the ma-jority-of the Catriiints, he is particularly good iri Soft going, and should prove: useful when the traeks-sof ten.-- •'" is one of the fittest horses on the local tracks, and should .give a."good account, of himself in .the hurdle-race on Saturday., He did solid-pace .-work on the sand. - Golden Hair and 'Peschie.a 'galloped half a mile attractively froth alirioet a efand- - ing start iri 50:_2-ssec. Golden7Piair looks. m great condition after her graces,, and is. improving all the time. ' ."-" ;. -- ' Chief Line, who lightened- up after" rac--ing at.Treritham, is building up again, and strode out"well iri-his pace^work. Green Linnet is a-robust mare, and is looking a picture.' She is now" Very fit, and should not be long in rewarding her owner-trainer with another win. E. • Brough's' two-year-old, Rapper, who has been on the easy list a. a result of a cold, was sprinted, and displayed plenty: of pace in scampering over three furlongs in- a ;tick under 38sec. '-- - -•-■-.- - Copey did light exercise, and Chief Link, who is rapidly rounding into shape again, worked solidly" over -a. couple: of circuits 'of the sand tracks ' • ..... Carfex, who has.been ajbit tied up with muscle soreness lately, is hitting out more freely again. ■■•■'- :. _ Calamine, who was unlucky to lose her rider at New. Plymouth on the'first day, went quite a good race ori Saturday when ridden bj*. an apprentice. She is to be ridden at Wanganui by L. Dulieu, and should show improvement; ..'