POINTERS FROM OTAHUHU FORM

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 12

POINTERS FROM OTAHUHU FORM

(By "The Toff.") Miss Dorothy has been sent homo for a long spell. #* ' # Brigand, is again being worked at the trotting gait. He is only a shadow of his former self. # ■ # * Jolly Roger is pottering along at New Brighton as if he hadn't a trouble m the world. ■* # • Charlie Bingen, a son of Great Bingen is now being tried as a trotter. He is m R. E. Mills' stable. G. W. Dransfield Intends visiting the Manawatu Club's fixture. He will take Logan King with him. # :Y- * Avenger has a. good record this season. In twelve starts he has three firsts, three seconds' and three thirds to his credit. * * * J. Deyell is keeping Proud Ata up to the collar m hopes of winning a race with him before the winter sets'in. * * * Ouirnet has been discovered. E. C. McDermott has given him. to his brother, Jack, to have a go at. '•'.•'.'•'■. * * VERY SHY Exclusive took exception to a cow visiting the track last week and capsized her driver out of the cart. She bolted and when caught, she had a lot of skin missing. Nothing serious occurred. '■■■*> * « Mate O' Mine has been doing a bit of sparring' lately. * ■..: * .'*'.. He ,is. Vouricing along m his work, and will bounce i home m front of a field ere long. ;, „» - * - * Vie. Alborn has purchased a. gelding by Nelson Bingen. The youngster is a straight-out.•■trotter of considerable promise. -.''.*• * ■* . Harry Eady has a big heart to try and make a gelding by Aid Patrick. * * » Dummy Bingen has been cleaning things up. He has succeeded m putting, his trainer m. hospital, breaking the cart to bits and obtaining a holiday for himself. * * * Wineberry and Charlie Lincoln are being screwed up for West Coast events but neither is a champion. * * * The erratic gelding, Carillon, has taken a new lease of life. He is at 'present, in 'as a rabbiter's hack. He is a half-brother to Springndte, who is mad. * ■ # * E. Berry has Ben Ohau m serious work. Is it a case of one more good* tune from an old fiddle. Lady Fan is a% love-bird m work but on race-days she is the funniest thing carrying silk. » .#• # . Homer builds the track-watchers up a treat and on race-days she dumps them like a stone. ■ •* # » ■• Wenlo is being worked m saddle, with a view to catching a race with the weight on top. '. * ■ ■ * * Napland is gradually coming to his best form and he,, will, or at least, he should be m splendid nick for autumn events.' :•'.'■# • #. ■ IMPROVtNG a •■ Peter McKin'ney r must have heard the baker knocking at his loose-box door. . Since he was threatened with a new mode* of living he has d/eveloped a some more speed. At Addington he saved his bacon by Tunning a good race; - being a close second to Audo Bell, who won the big trotters' contest of the meeting. ■■'■ ■.'■,•■.* * * Routine is still living. on a promise of being, a successful racehorse. If he fails to" win at the Banks Peninsula meeting he may lose his status. . * . #' # , ' Peter Riddle seems to be fed-up with the game m New Zealand and is keen to return to Australia. .'*''■■ .•'.■.'» » Surf Board should never leave 'the seaside. That is about all he . is good for. ■ ■ * •■■■,.*■ ' *, Ted Carlyon^ is putting m a good bit of time with a gelding by Logan Pointer from Posie G. It is a pacer and is good to look at. * | 4! ■ ■ > 4 . ■ Sea Pearl, who is now m: Auckland, will go a long way m trotting history before she is 'aged. Her .manners and condition are _a credit to R. Berry. -Newt Price is doing hisbest to, make a racehorse of Gift of Song. At present the gelding bores badly. . ; ■■ •* .•■*■. * Gabardine has been doing her work nicely and should be In apple-pie order for Kaikoura. #■- ■ . ..# * " . j . x Pr v plogue is being kept busy with a view to picking up a stake. * '■■'#.'.#'■■ Nipper has nipped the public, so often that they declined to" be nipped again. According, to'his recent form a nip would do Nipper good.' * ':.' * •:'*-"' D. Bennett has made another start on the trotting gelding Audominion. # * * Parkwood has resumed work after a short holiday.