NEW QUARTERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 11

NEW QUARTERS

Shining Armour Likes His Change A change is aa good as a rest, so they say, and with Shining Armour it is quite true. FROM the time the well-bred gelding atarted racing he has been ln the care of Fred Tilley at Fordell, and much and varied have been his experiences. One time he gave great promise, but he could only reaoh a certain level. In recent months Shining Armour started to slip, and his descent was so rapid that Tilley thought a bit of hurdling would do him no harm. As a hurdler the gelding was a wash-out, and at Wanganui last May he all but killed several runners the second day. He was brought back to the flat at Trentham, and he failed again. This continual run of misses must have sickened Fred and the owner, and last week when he paraded at Dannevirke he was carrying new, colors, and a new trainer was responsible for. him. In the birdcage the first day he looked well — bit pretty perhaps — and he ran third. Only a fair third. The next day he was a picture, but nobody wanted to be on him, and he won paying a great .price. Trainer Harold Batten has a way of getting horses right—and keeping them right; — and he should win more races with Shining Armour. ALL RIGHT NOW T AST spring there came out to race *- a youngster named Agreeable. She was badly named, for she was anything but open to reason. She was sent up to Dannevirke and Len. Breakwell took her m hand. Last week she was galloped down the straight with Breakwell m the' saddle. It is the first time "N.Z. Truth" has seen the filly taken past 1 - the gate and the work Broakwell has put m is highly meritorious. She has been hunted and is now tractable enough.

INEXPERIENCED W7HEN punters see a horse left at the ** barrier and then find him finishing fifth, they sort him out for the next time out. ' Such was the case with. Gambler, at Dannevirke last week, but, unfortunately, he was left again*' in his next outing. He is a good sort of a galloper, but has no experience. Mixed up In a field he does not know, what to do, but when given a clear run he can get over the ground.

PIRATING P^ CERTAIN horse— a fair dlnkum rogue — ran as per usual at Dannevirke, poorly. His owner was approached by a trainer who advised that the horse should be sent to another trainer 1 — trainer was named. It was a neat bit of shelving, or possibly one could call it pirating. But, sad to relate, the owner is a wake-up to the brute — the brute is. the horse!