ANOTHER POP

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 14

ANOTHER POP

Gold Tinge Has

Improved

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) After Gold Tinge had won the : A.J.C. Breeders' Plate for George Barton, Jim Munro, the Australian horseman,, said the Dunedin gelding was the fastest two-year-old he had ever ridden. DUT the way he ran m the Wellesley and the Welcome after he returned made Jini's dictum out all wrong. It was admitted, however, that the two-year-old had a little too much hurry up with his excursion across the Tasman and back, so he was put aside. He wintered well, and has for some time been under the charge of Bill Tompkinson, who trains George Barton's trotters at Addington. y Gold Tinge has grown into a . good - looking three - year - old. Tompkinson h^s done him well, and it is hard to recognise him as the same horse. A On account of the progress he has made, arrangements have been made to ship him on September 13 to Sydney, where he will tackle the classics. This is a fairly ambitious order when the. good three-year-olds about this season are taken into consideration, but' he cannot be counted. out of everything if he has retained any of the pace he showed as a two-year-old. George Barton wanted TompTcinson to g"o with the' horse, but the trotting trainer has too much to occupy his attention m the trotting field. In the fast work Tompkinson has given* him at Riccarton, Gold Tinge has galloped with forward horses, arid he looks as though it won't take much to wind him up.