WAIKATO NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 287, 24 February 1928, Page 6

WAIKATO NOTES

FORM OF THE HORSES TE AROHA REPRESENTATIVES (Special to THE SUN./ HAMILTON, Thursday. The next item for attention among trainers in these parts is the Te Aroha meeting - , which will open to-morrow and will conclude on Monday. As usual, stables this way will be fully represented, and the candidates can be looked to to keep the best of the opposition busy. Day Guard has been in the black books with punters of recent times, but they are cheerful people, always prepared to forget and forgive the past and come up smiling for more. Decause he ran a good second last year with S.O and would probably have won outright if he had had the rails instead of a wide-out position, many people will be falling over themselves to be on Mr. J. Zimmerman’s horse tomorrow, with 7.2 up, and H. Wiggins to pilot him in the Merries Memorial. Strong Double String Te Awamutu has a strong double string to its bow when Herries Cup prospects are being reviewed, as this centre, which has prepared many winners, will have Pegaway and Desert Glow to battle for the honours. They are both good horses, and lacking nothing in the requirements for the fray, but keen students of turfdom down that way are inclined to give the vote, on prospects, to Frank Loomb’s galloper. The distance will not worry . either horse, but Desert Glow, they j assert, has just that balance of weight in his favour to carry the day so far as the chances of this particular pair are concerned for to-motrow’s race. TRANSFORMER IS WELL The first glimpse of real form that Transformer (who is Thames-owned and Te Rapa-trained) gave us this season was at Takapuna less than a month ago. He was then very unlucky, in the opinion of many, not to have got the thick end of at least one stake. Transformer has been back sufficiently long at Te Rapa to get his “racing battery” properly charged again, and on the manner in which he j has been hitting out and his appearance in general, he is going to take some shaking off to-morrow. If Transformer’s not the hardest to beat it will be disappointing to more than owner Dave Twohill and trainer W. Woods. SHE CAN SCAMPER A two-year-old who can scamper as fast as anything we have produced this way of recent times is -Katarena, whose rider in the Juvenile Handicap at T§ Aroha to-morrow will sport the cream jacket and crimson cap of the Hannon stable. The King Lupin filly gave a taste of her ability when she pushed her way speedily to the front when a good juvenile field had turned into the short straight at Takapuna in the spring, and she won, too. GOES FAST AND CAN JUMP Useful hurdlers are by no means an uncommon production at Te Aroha. One who can be graded thus is Potoanui, one of the team that sports the heliotrope jacket of Mr. J. Hanks. Potoanui is in the mile and a-half event over the sticks to-morrow. It is a distance that will suit him admirably, and if he fails to be about the premises when the last fence is cleared, something unexpected will have happened. A two-year-old who was a good deal in the boom in the early part of the season, is Moehau, who is one of Mr. W. C. Ring’s breeding, and races for the well-known Hinuera sportsman. There is not much size about the daughter of Potoa and Fraisette, but she is by no means a sluggard at galloping and is fairly well seasoned by this. HAS BEEN IN FRONT Marble King has made an introduction to racing success by winning a