NOTIUMS NEXT RACE PROBABLY AT TRENTHAM

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 80, 1 October 1935, Page 6

NOTIUMS NEXT RACE

PROBABLY AT TRENTHAM

(Special from "Limited.")

HAWERA, September 30.

The two-year-old Notium has improved with his racing at Avondale, but will not be taken to Ellerslie for the Welcome Stakes. His next outing will be in Wellesley Stakes at Trentham.

The AVellington and Waverley Labour Day Meetings will be well patronised by Hawera stables, as all the local trainers will have horses ready by that time.

Soloist injured his head so severely when he crashed at Avondale that he will require a let-up, and it is therefore doubtful if he will be taken to the Auckland Spring Meeting. All going well with him, Bantry will definitely make the trip to Ellerslie. R. Brough has been working him the Auckland way round regularly, and last Thursday he went a good six-fur-long gallop.

Lowenberg and Fersen have been doing plenty of steady work since racing, also the reverse way round and a decision as to the Auckland trip will be determined in a day or two Present intentions are for Gay Seton's brother, Gay Chief, to make his first appearance in a race in the Welcome Stakes at .-Ellerslie, and he is being sent along seriously with that object in view.

The Tea Tray—Fleeting mare Silver Wings, who showed a lot of speed as a two-year-old but was a disappointment last season, has wintered exceptionally well, and has developed into a good-looking four-year-old. W. Grindlay has started working her regularly but it will be Christmas time before she is required to race.

Given her first fast work for some time, St. Clara, who has been affected with an enlarged joint, displayed signs of further soreness after cooling off that were not too reassuring. A feature of the training operations at Hawera during the weekend was the work of the two-year-olds under J. Fryer s care, who were sprinted together. The youngsters were Mr Somerton's colt Ned Cuttle (Captain Bunsby—Merry Twinkle), Mr J Kiley's colt International (Captain Bunsby—Vivo), and Fryer's own colt by Matarma from Lady Colossus. The try-out was a very satisfactory one, the youngsters finishing evenly over the quarter-mile in 25sec.

These three juveniles have done a lot of steady exercise and road work, and they are very tractable. Ned Cuttle is the most forward, and moves very nicely, but he many not race until Christmas time. International is a tall, rangy individual, a big strider, but showing an action that will probably grow better as he gains strength. The Matarma colt has done remarkably well, and his owner-trainer has a high opinion of his prospects. Mrs. W. D.-Graham's colt Brilliancy, by Excitement—Glittering, is making good progress, and showed up well when sprinting alongside Gay Chief on Saturday, the pair covering the two furlongs in 25sec.

J. Brown is working the Nigger Minstrel— Slacklme filly Shemseh regularly, but she has not been stretched out as yet. Shemseh is well grown and one of the best-looking youngsters on the track.

Mr. W. O. Williams's hunter Just-Off has made great improvement since racing at New Plymouth, and such a capable jumper should do well over the" Ellerslie country, where he will be given a try-out at the coming Auckland Meeting. J. Fryer has another addition to his already big string in the aged gelding Mehal, by Cynic from Omeo's dam, who is to be prepared for jumping events. Another newcomer to Hawera is a five-year-old bay mare by Acre from Red Gold, the property of a Huntcrville sportsman. , This mare is to race as Our Selection, and has gone into M. Conway's stable.