WAIKATO TOURS

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 13

WAIKATO TOURS

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland | Rep.) THE majority of the northerners enA tered for Marton next week hail from the Waikato district. # * # Mainly they come from Te Aroha, and there is reason to believe the township of the springs will be well •represented. # * *• From that quarter,- Cox has a pair with more than useful qualifications m Valkon/ and Ruffles. # ■* . .- * If they go down it can be taken as almost certain that, there is little wrong with them. .# *' * Valkon 'was good enough to defeat Corimax m the ten furlong Storey Cup m the autumn, and some of the connections still gloat over that victory. # # # As for Ruffles, he went wrong just vrhen he promised great things as a sprinter, but report has it he is coming right again. # # ' * ' " • , Jack Wallace has .a useful" pair en-; gaged m Te Koroke and Tea Time, and he has done well with the latter on previous Wanganui jaunts. #■. * * Te Koroke can be recommended as more than a reasonable proposition m any sort of ground up to a mile. #" * * . King Lv and Queen Arch are two other Te Aroha aspirants which have' winter racing and victories to , recom - v mend them, while Lucy Rose ancl Upoko are two of George Reid's hacks worthy of consideration. #*. * , If Restaurant makes the trip, his best qualification is he gave promise as a. stayer m the hack class. *....*■ * Aurlculus and Maurieana are two from Avondale which are capah'le\ of going well m the soft stuff. # * * As for Waltzer, he has the speed to show up over hurdles; but his trouble seems to be want of staying power. , The Immigrant is much better than the moderate performer up to seven furlongs: ' "Famos" was adopted by Dustins, btd., as the name' of their renowned pies som'j years ago and to-day Dustins' "Famos" pies are as well known their wedding calces. , One ,o£ th,eir advertisements'' states: "If there's anything better than one of Dustins' 'Famos' l?ies-T-it's two."*