NOTES AND COMMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

DOINGS IN THE WAIKATO CLAUDELANDS FINE TRACKS I Although till- trotting season is tlovvi anil out practically for the moment the Waikato district who tind it n tiieir interest to keep pegging <<lon; quietly with some of their charges it ihe hope that they will he on ham commence. Always a Duck AV. Turner is persev. ring with at present, the disappointing: Peter McKinney and Oliver Thorpe. I'etei i would break the heart oi any trainer land likewise his banking account i while Oliver has not yet suggested | that he would he likely to augment the ! latter: The son of Our Thorpe sported j silk several times during the season I but his score at each innings was a j -duck/’ Patience is a Virtue Peter McKinney was decidedly enI couraging on occasions, and he managed to get a few of the crumbs of tlic j stake money, while at Claudelands in I March he succeeded in returning a ! second place dividend. With a little j bit of luek, or judicial assistance, lit might have easily been awarded the first ticket that particular day. bin it did not come his way. Peter ran another solid race in the Te Aroha Cup but just missed a position. Patience is a virtue, and if trainer Turner hang? on his reward may come along early Sister to Young Btake j AV. Q. Stephens, who attended s* ably to Cold Star's preparation during the latter half of the season, lias : couple of* novices receiving tuition a Hamilton which, on breeding lines, an well connected. One is a full sister t< I' that great trotter Young Bake, and tin other is closely related to Kewpie. i mare well known to Auckland racegoers. Gold Star is none the worse foi j his season's efforts and will come uj again dressed in his best. A Gay Deceiver ! J. G. Browne is giving his team roat work at present and all his charge: bear a healthy appearance. Bostoi Chimes proved a gay deceiver this sea son, and was costly to followers of tin stable. After showing encouraging form at Ngaruawahia, he failed to reproduce it in subsequent outings, tc the chagrin of the gelding's party Lena Ansel managed to pull out a second at Thames, but she paid a pric* that would compensate for several rebuffs. The grey trotter, by Wildmoor has not yet tried his luck at the racing business. The Claudelands track will be in good demand during the coming ! season and caretaker Harry Rouse ! has it in fine trim. If there is any- ! one in the land who knows the requirements of a track better than Rouse, some club would be glad to get hold of him. The Claudelands course is one of the few on the country circuit that will give improvers a chance to qualify for the Metropolitan meeting, and for this reason it is a pity the Waikato j Club cannot stage its fixtures [ (combining the two) some time I before the Auckland and Otahuhu Spring functions. Will Be Ready Early E. Benjamin had a bad spin wit!: the promising trotter Paradigm this season, and he was unable to get th* son of Childe Audubon right. After a few early failures the Hamiltonian did not persevere with his square-gaitei as a racing proposition. Paradigm has not been allowed to eat the corn of idleness, however, and he has been kept jogging along evenly. He is at present being exercised daily by young Les Laver, of Epsom, who has signed on with Benjamin. Paradigm should be ready for the fray bright and early i “F. Smith's New 'Trotters*” t Fred Smith is having a quiet time as j far as his pacers are concerned, but jhe is a busy man among the “trotters,” and tlie kind he is persevering with at present, will all pay dividends i when placed on the market. The exj Epsom trainer has a fine contingent of j young pigs on his new section and | when he “trots” them along to the | bacon factory in due course should find them a profitable investment. New Vocation for Toll Chimes I Toll Chimes is engaged in a new dutv | and is assisting, his owner in the busij ness between the shafts of the “sulky” j that collects the victuals for the stock. Toll seems to enjoy his change of work, and it certainly will not do him any harm, and he should be in good condition to tackle a racing prepara- | tion later on. Toll Chimes did not j bring much grist to the mill this year, I but he went very close at Thames to I handing owner Smith ;t good purse i farm rd **** purchase of th< * Claudelands Promising Novices The Our Thorpe-Belgiun Queen gliding in “Smithie’s” stable which will probably be known to those who attend the country fixtures later as Our r-eigiun. will celebrate his fifth birthat the beginning of the coming month, and he has developed into a sturdy-looking customer, and show, promise °f also developing a good turn "''. f 1 '■ Smith will shortly have an addition to his team in the shape of the grey colt by Worthy Bond fro,,, Logan Grey, which is rising three s!ason a bv W £ en handle<s earlier j n , he showed distinct % e omTi bb "* KpSom