It Pays to Follow The Stable in Form

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 10

It Pays to Follow The Stable in Form

LESSON FROM WANGANUI At any time of the racing year, id particularly in the early spring, it is best to follow stables that have proved to be in winning vein. There is ore string that can be followed to-morrow at Ellerslie with some degree of confidence, and that is the one presided over by Fred Tilley, of Fordell. At Wanganui last month this mentor saddled up four winners, these being Cashier (win and dead heat), Consent and Laughing Prince. The first and last of these will be seen in action here to-morrow, and their chances are to bo respected. In addition to this pair, Tilley will saddle up at Ellerslie Freehold, Metellus and High Falutin’, so that it will not be at all in the order of things if he goes back without winning a stake. A Good String Messrs. W. McA. Duncan and T. A. Duncan are the biggest patrons of the stable, but the former will have only Freehold to carry his violet and gold stripes, so valiantly borne in a great number of victories in recent years by Client, Tamatete, Tukia, Tame Fox, Glenross and others. The red jacket and lavender cap of Mr. T. A. Duncan was not quite so prominent after that good mare Enthusiasm retired from racing, but his luck changed with a vengeance when his trainer advised him 18 months ago to buy the then two-year-old Laughing Prince, the figure being 1,000 guineas, nearly half this price being made up when the colt won a few hours after his purchase. To date Laughing Prince has won £3,990 for his present owner, and there is more in prospect, for besides being a possibility for a good handicap he may well be able to hold his own at weight-for-age, as he showed in the Eclipse Stakes at Wanganui last month. A Repeat Performance? Mr. T. A. Duncan won four races at Wanganui, which was a royal start for the new racing year, and with Cashier and Laughing Prince to carry his colours to-morrow and on Monday le may add to that performance. The sporting blood must surely be hereditary, for one of Mr. T. Duncan’s sons is an enthusiastic amateur rider. This is Mr. Iv. McK. Duncan, who .vns the ’chaser Trouble, and this young sportsman was in the saddle when Trouble won the Steeplechase at Marton meeting a few weeks, previously riding him into second place at the Taranaki Hunt fixture. Mention of Freehold recalls that the dam of this three-year-old, Tahua, went the way of all horseflesh a few weeks back, an incurable ailment necessitating her destruction. Tahua was a prolific producer, giving us su h speed merchants as Tamatete, Tukia, Padonna, Ohui and Freehold, while a two-year-old and a yearling (by Ab • surd and Limond respectively) are yet to be given their chance on the turf to perpetuate the name of a fine mare. Toxeuma has now won three on end. He will take his place lri the field for the Great Northern Guineas on Saturday. Those who ought to know consider that the son of Arrowsmith will go a great race. Freehold, who will take on the sprinters in the Shorts Handicap, has done nicely since his arrival at Ellerslie, and he promises to strip a very fit horse in Saturday’s race. Freehold ran very pleasingly in the Dunedin Handicap at the Pakuranga Hunt meeting, and if this form was at all reliable, he will prove to be one of the toughest of the light-weights.