WAIKATO NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 393, 29 June 1928, Page 7

WAIKATO NOTES

DISTRICT REPRESENTED STRONG HAND AT ELLERSLIE (Special to THE SUN) TE AROHA, Thursday. Thames patrons are loyal to King Smock, and although the big Snow King gelding has won races this season it is doubtful, nevertheless, if they are on the right side of the ledger. There are some in the goldfields who have cause to remember King Smock’s failure at the Auckland meeting which introduced the shortest day month. During a trip the writer made to Thames this week he learned that the Parawai-trained galloper was doing well and the declaration to get even bef/ivA long was a confident assertion by some who should know their book of racing. King Amans and Hurdling In tjie limited number of public tests he has been put to as a jumper this season. King Amans has made a favourable impression and he promises to be a useful performer in the hurdling branch of the job next season. The Te Aroha-owned gelding can muster up more than the average burst of speed, and while he has not always jumped proficiently he will improve tn this aspect of the game with some further racing in the division. It would not urprise to find King Amans in the best of hurdling company before the new season reaches its end. Romeo Flyer Flying Juliet’s headquarters last season were at Te Aroha. Over the term now running out the black mare has been at the Waikato Club’s headquarters at Te Rapa. While she has failed to run as well forward at times as has been anticipated. Flying Juliet has again placed herself on the correct side of the ledger. When last .*een in public, on the occasion of th® Auckland Club’s Great Xorthern programme, Flying Juliet figured among the also starteds. Her name appears in races on the flat at the same course the coming week-end. Although she can go fast when at her best, there is a disposition that the Romeo representative will not do so well under the heavy scale of weights in vogue at this time of the year. She has the top load of 10.0 in the Awakino Handicap cm Saturday. What About Pouri? “What chance has Pouri in a steeplechase ?’’ was a question the writer heard put by one racing patron to another the other day. The writer has not seen the Spalpeen jumper since his appearances at the Auckland winter meeting, but has had it from a source to be relied upon that Mr. H. Matthews’s jumper will line up in the light order for his tasks at the weekend. For a novice at the big country Pouri shaped very well at Ellerslie in nis outings there. This was particularly so in the Winter Steeples. It

"as the fact that he was tired more than all else that brought him down at the first fence on the hill when the was spurting for home in the W inter Steeplechase. The pace was a v ery warm one that afternoon. It will hot be so hot on Saturday, and that "■•II suit Frank Tutchen’s jumper. It is noticed that Fouri is in both hurdles and steeplechase events at the Wellington meeting. Pouri gives me the impression that he will jump big country capably when he gets more Knowledge of the business. Will Be In the Boom Of the several horses from Te Aroha "ho will be at Auckland for the racmg over the coming week-end, there i? Q °. ne who looks better prepared for ‘he job than Te Koroke. The chestnut gelding by Humbug and Tigritiya as developed considerably since he am© to this centre to be trained; in . '* ot * you w °uld not know him from his iiiM arance last season. Good Judges here who saw Te Koroke race u winter gathering are of opinion or 1 *? e was very unlucky not to have ne , . tter than a couple of fourths. I * aw stretch out in a gallop here on rccen t morning, and although he was

not in front at the finish it was the easy way in which he was doing it that caught the eye. His party has Te Koroke in the Awakino and Te Kuiti Handicaps on Saturday. The field and the distance makes him look much the better proposition in the former, and if such should be his mission he will see a short price.