Activities in Canterbury

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 146, 10 September 1927, Page 7

Activities in Canterbury

TRAINERS GETTING BUSY CANDIDATES FOR PETONE (Special to THE SUN.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. rpRAINERS, with charaes booked A for the Wellington fixture next Saturday, are busy just now putting on the finishing touches. Several of the Canterbury representatives are well forward and promise to play a prominent part at the function. Wairua is strutting - round the tracks as if he will go pretty well this season. The gelding is stronger and in better health than he was last year. ST. MAURA WELL One of the fittest mares at Addington is St. Maura and she is better now than when she won at the August fixture, and should go well in the mile and a-quarter event at Petone. J. J. Kennerley has Peter Bingen bouncing along as if he was a rubber ball. In a dash over a short journey at Addington this week he displayed a sensational burst of speed. J. H. Wilson is a visitor to Addington, where he has the trotting gelding Mickey Audubon in work. Mickey Audubon is a good trotter, but he wants working in company, hence the change to Addington. EPIGRAM’S PROSPECTS If he were not troubled with splints, Epigram would win two or three races. He is engaged at Wellington, and even with his affliction it would be a game man who would deny him a chance. That prosperous-looking pacer Marlindo has sprung a tendon. When he won at Timaru he looked like going on to win several races. The gelding Acre is a good pacer, and he has plenty of speed, but he

goes with his head tipped to one side as if he had the earache. COUNT DEE IN FORM Count Dee is a much improved gelding and he bears a firmer and better appearance than when he raced at Addington in August. F. J. Owen is working the Austra-lian-bred gelding Nurmi, who was brought to New Zealand by P. Riddle. Nurmi has grown into a good-looking pacer, and he should train on to good advantage this season. One of the best novices seen at Addington is a four-year-old pacer by Author Dillon from Lady Wildwood. This colt is like his father and can go fast and can stay. The Australian pacing gelding Billy Sea is beginning to look jolly. His feet have been causing him a lot of inconvenience,, but they are improving under the care of J. N. Clarke, who expects to get the gelding to go kindly in his races. ROY BERRY BUSY Machine Gun has freshened up :in a pleasing fashion since his failures at Addington. He is just doing enough work to keep him in shape for spring functions. The pacing mare Maud Logan is doing splendidly for R. B. Berry. She is a good-headed mare that promises to pay her way this season. The sprinter Lady Barrister is hitting out in convincing style, and as she goes well in saddle should be prominent at Wellington. N. C. Price has made a.nother start on the gelding My Sonny. Though big in condition and much in the rough the chestnut son of Harold Dillon will soon come to hand and be ready for summer exertions.