Trentham Horses to Race at Riccarton

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 420, 31 July 1928, Page 10

Trentham Horses to Race at Riccarton

WINTER CUP CANDIDATES PREPARING FOR NEW SEASON (Special to THE SUN) WELLINGTON. Monday. The two-year-old Concentrate has wintered well, and is expected to be j one of the leading three-year-olds of ; the approaching season. In all his races last season he was staying on at the \ right end, and for that reason he is ex- j pec ted to win distance races. While at Trentham Beau Cavalier made a lot of friends by the easy manner with which he got through his tasks. He seemed to improve all the time, and several trainers remarked that they would be glad if some of their flat horses worked as well. There is no question he should be a fitter horse at Riccarton than* he was when he competed at the recent Wellington meeting. From what could be gathered while Beau Cavalier was here, it is regarded as certain that S. Henderson will ride him* in his Grand National engagements at Riccarton. Royal Damon has continued to work well since the Wellington meeting, and it may be found that before long he will come into favour for the Winter Cup, as the preparation he is doing certainly indicates that his trainer has designs on that race. He will be ridden in the big mile by T. Green. Promising Sort Much is expected of Staghunter in the coming season, and he is shaping up nicely in his work. He ran some remarkably good races this season, but went off in an unaccountable manner before the end of the autumn. He has not yet been set any severe task, but he has shown by his sprinting over very short courses that he has retained liis brilliance. Nothing at Trentham is doing better work in his own department than Standard, whose speed over the hurdles is something to wonder at. It will indeed be surprising if this novice does not win hack hurdle events early in the new racing season. Vigilance has been getting through steady work at Foxton, and appears to have recovered from her indisposition which affected her a while back. The present intention is to take her to

Christchurch for the Hunt meeting on August 4. Whether she is left in the South for the Grand National fixture depends upon how she shapes at the Hunt gathering. She has severaf engagements at the National meeting, but as slie has not raced for some i time one will have to wait till after the Hunt meeting to get a line on her ; chances. Wellington friends of the Sydney j trainer George Price, who in his day was one of New Zealand’s best known ’ riders and trainers, have received word j from him that he will be here next week on a short visit. Price comes over once a year, and always is cordially welcomed. His stable in Sydney is full, but recently he managed to squeeze in another for a New Zear land patron, Mr. Percy Blundell. An Early One S.. Reid has a nice looking juvenile at Trentham by Kilbroney from Merit, a speedy imported mare who saw very little of the racing track. The filly, who will race at Sapient, seems a smart sort and is well forward. She gives the impression that she will come to hand as quickly as anything which has been noticed in this district. Decoy Brd, whose preparation is again being supervised by J. McLaughlin. who has recovered from his recent illness, is shaping up nicely and is thriving in his new environment. He is fairly well forward, and will be seen in public early in the new season. He does not look as if he will ever be anything more than a sprinter. There is nothing the matter with the condition of Matu, though little has been heard of him of late. He has been going along quietly ever since the Wellington meeting, and it will take very little to sharpen him up for his engagement in the Grand National Steeplechase. He is expected to give a good account of himself in anything lie tackles in the South, but thos : e who have seen him in most of his races tliHik the big fences there will be his chief trouble. For the Winter Cup * The good showing that Panther made when he ran second in one of the open six furlong races at the Wellington winter meeting has drawn attention to his chances in anything he tackles in the near future, and here he is one of the best fancied of the Winter Cup candidates. He is an improved gelding, and like all the Kilbroneys should be better with a bit of age. No horse lias had his work more closely watched in the last week than this fellow, and general satisfaction lias been expressed with what he has done on the tracks. If he starts in the Av inter Cup he will be ridden by B. H Morris. The last of the progeny of that good brood mare, Rene, dam of the Thompson Handicap winner, Printemps, is w ° rl * at Trentham. She is a nice filly by Acre and looks a useful sort, khe has done very little fast work, but has pleased in all her essays. Rene, it will be remembered was killed time back through getting out on the i ailway line and being run over by a train. REMINDERS Nominations for the Marton Jockey < lub s spring meeting close at 9 p.m. on Friday, August 17. Entries for ihe Wanganui Jockey Club’s spring fixture are due at S p.m. on Monday, August 20. T inal payments and acceptances for first day events at the C.J.C. Grand National meeting close on Thursday August 9 RACING FIXTURES July 26, 28—Gisborne R.C. 1928-1929 Season August 4—Christchurch Hunt. August 4—Poverty Bay Hunt. August 14. 16. 18—Canterbury J.C. August 2o—Hawke’s Bay Hunt. Sept. I—Marton J.C. SepL I—Otagol—Otago Hunt. Sept. s—Dannevlrke R.C. Sept. 6—Danaevirke Hunt. Sept. B—Taranaki Hunt. Sept. 13. 15—Wanganui J.C. SepL 22 —Ashburton R.C.