FROM THE SOUTH

NZ Truth, Issue 1188, 6 September 1928, Page 13

FROM THE SOUTH

(By "The Toff.") THEY say Sandy Wilkes is good. * * * Dilnon can go fast. T* . * ' i« - Bay Nut is consistent, and his form is good. # * * Sunstorm's work has been good, and he should win a race at New Brighton. »* ■ • .The dry heads will be on Jazalock. They reckon, he will walk m at New Brighton and pay a dividend. He will have to be good to beat Sonoma Star and Sunstorm. ' # # •# Real Light has done plenty of work; and he is better than the average. # * * Mate o' Mine reads well over ten furJongs at New Brighton. # # # L.' Frost is working a. half-sister to Np Fear. She is by Rey de Oro from Macushla. *. * # The trotting gelding, Admiral Bingen, is being converted to the pacing gait, at which he is shaping fairly well. Jfr $E # The aged trotting gelding, Kelburn, has gone into E. Shaw's stable at Belfast. # • * *• A. G. Wilson's team has been strengthened by the inclusion of that good pacer Donard, which promises to reach top-hole company. v The folks up Cheviot way decline to adhere to the old axiom that if sport interferes with business, giye._up business. In consequence the Cheviot Trotting Club has yet to select a date that will suit the "cockles" to leave their farms to attend the trots; #• * * A few weeks ago a gale visited Methven and damaged the Trotting Club's property, which has to undergo immediate repairs. # '"■#'.■ * The New Zealand trainer, Syd. August, cleaned up the "books" with Lord Lv m Melbourne, but since going to Sydney the only ones 1 that have done any renovating are the woolbrokers. Syd.'s pretty dreams of the "Get-rich-quick- Wallingford" stunt have failed to come true. # #• . * Just as evei-ybody was handing out praise to C. Tasker for the way he had got on with Double Event, the gelding left his stable and rejoined that of G. S. Smith at New Brighton. ##•' # ' j W. J. Tomklnson has gone on a holiday trip to Australia. . * # . # * .' \ ■'■ Many aged and proved pacers with fast records' are finding their way to Perth. The last .to cross the Tasman were Honour Bright, La Sonnette, Lauriston and Pointalena. # # # Judged by the way Rose Marie won a mile and a-half race at Oamaru laßt May, she should go fast this season. In her race at Oamaru she got- it m the neck twice and when appearing hopelessly beaten, she unwound Cup horse speed and got up m time to win. Since then she has had a good speH. So she ought to be a. high-class mare this season. .-•'..■■*. * * •' , ■ The season's sensational pacer m America is ■ Grattan Bars, which was purchased when eighteen months old for £2. Grattan Bars now is five years old, and made his first appearance on the grand circuit m U.S.A. m a 2.8 class, which he won m iiollqw fashion m the marvellous time of 1.59 %. Grattan Bars is heralded as the greatest pacing star the world has produced. He has cleaned up all the big stakes this season) his total winnings this year being m the region of £20,000. ,