WAIKATO DOINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 392, 28 June 1928, Page 6

WAIKATO DOINGS

TE KUITI CANDIDATES COMMENT FROM TE AROHA (Special to THB SUN) TE AROHA, Wednesday. Te Aroha has a very fine record with the horses prepared from the various stables in this centre this season. To the present stage 50 successes have been recorded, and with candidates freely listed in the fields at the coming meetings of the Te Kuiti and Wellington Clubs, this total is capable of being further extended before July 31. The paspalum surface on the course in this centre makes it a very favourable circuit for the preparation of horses all the year round, and with the improvements that are being carried out by the club to its fine property, training and racing needs will be very adequately supplied from the new season onwards. Tea Time, Nancy Lee, Mosaic, TJpoko, Lady’s Boy, Waltzer, Town Bird, King Amans, King Lu, Lucy Rose, Marble King, Lady Spalpeen, Queen Arch, Te Koroke, Taurimu and Valkon have been among the horses located here who have been first past the post on at least one occasion during the 1927-28 racing period. Prodice and the Next Term Among the workers at Te Awamuta these times is Prodice. During the present season the Catmint—Hyades two-year.-old has won nearly £1,700. She has not been unduly raced, and should show the benefit of this during the new season, her three-year-old term. Prodice belongs to a stock who have a liking for tracks which are on the soft side. It will probably be September before the filly again goes to the barrier. She has grown a good deal in the off season of racing, and works very freely on the tracks, although it will be some time yet before anything of a very serious nature is asked of her. Successful Trainer Among the many trainers in the South Auckland district there is none with a more successful record than Frank Loorab, who made Te Awamutu his headquarters some seven years back, when he transferred from Gisborne. This mentor has the ability to prepare them efficiently for steeplechasing, hurdling and fiat racing in all its departments, from two-yea.r-oid competition and classic engagements up to the top grade to be encountered in handicap ranks. It has been assessed that during the period outlined the stake earnings to the credit of horses from this stable have reached £35,000. For the new season Loomb will have one of the biggest teams in the province to put through their preparation, more than half of the number being destined to carry the colours of their trainer. I saw it chronicled in a recent interview where this mentor had stated that he now owned probably £5,000 worth of horseflesh. More for Mia Bella Over Te Awamutu way the track watchers have a great opinion in regard to the prospects of Mia Bella in the hurdle races she is to contest at the Trentham meeting next month. Her second in the Great Northern Hurdles to Beau Cavalier was a performance of merit, and indicated that Mia Bella-was pretty near the peak of her form when she participated in this important jumping task at Ellerslie recently. Her subsequent failures at the meeting took some of the glamour away from her display on opening day, but accidents are liable to happen to the best of jumpers. When Mia Bella came under the notice of the writer the other day, she looked very muscular, and if she has the fortune to steer" clear of trouble she should pay her way, at least, on ’the southern trip. Will be Kept in Mind Potoanui has had a good following from Te Aroha district in the hurdle events the Potoa gelding has taken part in so far this season. The loyal ones, in the investment measure, are still on the wrong side of the ledger, but the fact that Potoanui is now being prepared at Auckland will not cause his future prospects to be overlooked. It is common knowledge at his original training territory that Potoanui likes to get into the ground and he will have this aspect of galloping affairs all in his favour for the months immediately ahead. There is Hope Yet Mangani proved fairly costly to those who supported the Day Comet jumper throughout the latest meeting at Ellerslie, but he will not be abandoned for that reason when he goes back to the big country jobs he has on the same circuit at the coming week-end. His most ardent admirers reckon that Mangani hasn’t had a fair show yet, but if kept to the one line, steeplechasing, he will come right. There is this much to be said for their contention, that Mangani is only a young jumper. He is not an over-confident one, however, but experience will do a lot for him in this connection. If Mangani is to make good at the game, he will have every chance, as he is in correct hands. If Frank Loomb doesn’t get him right, then the ability is not with the horse. Latest From Good Stock Among the latest of the progeny of Lassie Doon to be brought in to enter on a preparation for future racing is William of Orange, who has made his appearance on the tracks at Te Axoha. This relative to Master Doon and Lorna Doon is by Valkyrian. There is plenty of size about the youngster referred to, and if he lives up to the family record his name will be frequently mentioned in approving manner as time goes on. Pai Ana, who is in the Pio Pio Hurdles at Ellerslie on Saturday, is but a comparative novice to the jumping game, but those who have seen her schooling at Te Awamutu have a good word to say of the progress she is making. She is a full sister to Mangani and gets her daily round of exercise from the same headquarters. There is more size about Pai Ana than Mangani can lay claim to, and with the benefit of age and experience she may prove the better proposition of the pair as a jumper. Will Make Good Although Waltzer appears in flat events at the Te Kuiti gathering, his hurdling education is being continued at Te Aroha. W. Tricklebank has beer, schooling the Hymettus gelding, and the latter’s progress has been of

the promising order. Waltzer’s name figures in jumping events at Trentham next month, and, so far as the writer can glean information on the point, the Southern visit is to be kept by him. He fences very boldly in private, and it should not take a great deal of public experience to make Waltzer sufficiently proficient to give a hack hurdle field a lot of trouble, as he is well prepared so far as racing condition is concerned. Good One Goes Wrong The Te Rapa trainer F. Tutchen suffered a bad loss from the ranks of the active gallopers in his team when Stormy had to undergo a compulsory spell. The Quin Abbey gelding was very forward in condition at the Auckland winter fixture, where he filled second and third places in leading handicaps, and with the breeze a shade in his favour might readily have headed at least one of those goodsized fields. According to accounts, the lameness which has brought about liis temporary retirement developed during the northern trip and became more noticeable on the return to his Waikato quarters. There has been mention of Stormy being tried out as a jumper, but the new season will now be well forward before such a role

is fulfilled. On his breeding, Stormy should soon adapt himself to a jumping career. If he has the ability he is in good hands to develop it. Komak the Hack Ivomak, an acceptor for the Te Kumi Handicap at the Te Kuiti meeting, is one of the numerous descendants of Quin Abbey. So far Komak has done very little racing, but he is still a young horse, and there is time for him yet to extend some return. It appears as if Komak would require to do very much better than anything we have yet had from this quarter to have a chance on Saturday, although the field is nothing to write home about.