WAIKATO NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 514, 17 November 1928, Page 6

WAIKATO NOTES

SUPREMACY PROGRESS ING VOLIMOND’S CONDITION The Sun’s turf correspondent in the South Auckland district deals below with many candidates connected with stables in that important district, and the latest news in this connection wlil be read with interest. Upoko has travelled very fast on occasions during the comparatively short period this candidate, with headquarters at Te Aroha, has sported silk. Upoko begins very promptly as a rule, but he has been a shade disappointing owing to his wind gauge receding a little more quickly than ardent admirers would have desired. However, it does not require an optimist to find a silver lining insofar as the future prospects of this young galloper are concerned. The tracks that are not too lengthy when it comes to the stretch out from the top of the straight to the judge’s box should cause Upoko’s admirers to be “all attention” from this out when the racing conditions referred to are in vogue.. 'Trainer Reid is getting the polish on the Marble Arch—Bonny Fishwife gelding at Te Aroha. Those who take an interest worth sizing up in the particular part of the district concerned, have an especially promising word to chronicle when estimating the prospective value of Becalmed, who is being fined down for racing needs by A. Cook at Te Awamutu. Variance in the estimate of racing candidates is a regular occurrence and pardonable, too, let it be added, but the divergence here is not great. While Becalmed has done no racing worth speaking of as yet, those who have taken cognisance, if all they say can be supported, feel satisfied that a good deal of improvement is capable from this particular quarter. While it may be a contention that will be rudely upset when tli© acid test of racing is adequately applied the policy of “wait and see” is, apparently, not going to cause any frantic stir among some people who make racing something of more than spasmodic interest. A Creditable Part Mangani has got back to his country headquarters at Gordonton looking quite fresh on it after his double victory over hurdles at Avondale and his

second placing at Whangarci. In his two opening successes of the season, the first at Te Rapa and the next at the Dargavillo fixture, Norman fc*yme piloted Mangani. but his elder brother, Roy, was astride on the second day the Day Comet gelding came home at the Da.rgaville fixture, and he also did the guiding of this particular mount at Whangarei. The decision to avoid the carrying of “dead weight” can be understood. The pitch of condition to which C. L. Lowe, the new trainer of Mangani, has got his charge this season is worthy of special mention. Mangani is going to be hard to place in the hurdle ranks from this out, but the fact that he can handle the country is going to make him a proposition of more than average value. When Supremacy Steps Out

le Awamutu, which is the centre wfV 11 " 53 i Part of the Province that has been having most to say in the important matter of stake gathering the new season moved oil, is still sheltering the crack two-vear-old Supremacy. The classic winner of higT s a te°Ds n on't UCkland sprins satherovfr fhe h,.;,? - m s P ri £*tly fashion o\e! the brief journeys he is sent in training on his home track. It does not lequire close inspection to note the physical development that mXte maC^r in T de seen L ; -- “ provided wh en S the C °a?T" et V vill be Foal Stakes emu's u „°Vnr i NorUlern Ellerslie, on which ? for . decision at have a top-notcher in Honour to put