WELLINGTON ITEMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 11

WELLINGTON ITEMS

TEAM FOR AUSTRALIA RECENT FORM REVIEWED (Special to TIIB BUN) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Generally Mr. W. Higgins has not a really strong team, but he proposes to try his luck in Australia. In sending over Joy Bird, Kilbronsyth, Kilperon and Passbook, he has been influenced by the improved appearance of Joy Bird this season. Sho was a good mare last summer, and looks like being a much better one this season. When she made her first appearance of the season at Otaki. sho was full of life and brightness, and that she won when not tlurouoghly ready was very encouraging. She is Hnglish bred, and like other importations, has taken a while, to como to her best. Of her stable-mates, Passbook is a flirty promising two-year-old, who iron one of the juvenile handicaps at the Wellington spring meeting and ran with credit at Riccarton, though the

luck was against her there. lvilbronsyth has been unsound on and off, for a considerable period, and Australia might not suit him. as it is fair to presume that tho tracks there will be hard. He is a good galloper when right, and a tino big horse up to any 'eight. Kilperon had every chance to win the last rare on the programme l but failed. He u.igriit be rather expensive to follow. Losing on Meetings Clubs down this way are not all mak- ) n » their meetings pay. Levin, a highly- popular club, which has a Saturday date and draws from a big- area, oia not do us well this season as last, ?i Jl°' V ifc is understood that good as the Otaki meeting looked on tlio suritu’o, there will be a slight loss on the nxturc. However, -the loss will be not pearly as great as it has been at past nieetings, so the club is pleased and satisfied that it is making progress. Koyal Duke lightened up a good deal recently, and it was decided not to tako him to Feilding. Clack Mint is rather a puzzle of late, ne is always very scratchy in his movements, but even so the form he ruis been showing is not his true form, tno of these days he will “go right’* ana will roll home at the head of a good field. promising three-year-old in these Parts is Arikinui. He is out of a _ mare » Celmesia, which his owner. Mr. J. b. Gaisford, used to race with a fair amount of success some seasons ®J[ 0 * When he raced at Otaki he was nuking his first appearance this season, and having tho second race of his career. He ran second to a speedy sort in Richfield, and should be a very while in doing a lot better. Ramc.ses is going along nicely in his *ork, ;uid it' ho does not get up in tne weights before then he should be a good proposition for tho holiday Meetings. He is now trained by the one-time prominent rider, J. Olsen, who him looking exceptionally well, ith a bit of luck Raineses would have a dividend on the first day at , ->npthe« whoso holiday prospects are riffht j s Huikai. lie has been galjoping with exceptional dash at Hastngs and at Otaki lie ran right up to h’s best track form. ne best has not been seen of Holus °ius for some time. TTe is looking *dl and will bob up again. Ran Very Green n T he Trent hum gelding Quantum has • grown into a very ornate piece of oiseflesh, but on occasions he has m ° w . n that he is possessed of ample *° w in good hack sprints* He ‘ npp°d i n n j ce con< iition at Otaki and ; out ir » front nearly all the way i I s race on the second day. He lost °J ground through running wide the h°nu> turn, and then he finished * r.°°d third. Next time out in sirato l beat a^an y * be muc k harder tn_T Ch ?^ u ls to bo taken North to con,he Northern Derby. His .'Tier Mr. T. M. Wilford, lias all along stnv . tbe °Pto io » that Tcheka will . he proposes to put his theory test Tcheka strikes me as a suit v I:it% a distance of ground will stav bUt "’hether he is a genuine • a\er or just a plodder I do not know, v® l8 „ by Nieht Raid, the sire of the rm**«u Ze^land Derbv winner, Nightriim’ ’ / rom a solid family on the that hut there is a possibility rniif u- the dash necessary to F rv. • mo re than a plodder. Uav * s is bringing several of his nnri i? Ut for the Woodville meeting. r a " “ they do well there they will fa r at Christmas time. Great Charao,janc ‘ Gascony will both be seen in oih so also will the two-vear- '• Clever. to-'.V 1 the members of A. J). Webster’s are *' ell forward, and Bonhomme. , loa 'Vonder and Borsplene have pr (topoo t; , of winning during the ' v ithi ei * at herings. Borsalene went Ot n , reas<>n able distance of a win at the fLr? ln S in front till very close to n, ®h In a warmly-run mile race.

nlicntlv expressed the opinion tliat even with much more powerful batteries than the one used in the expenmerits no horse could be made to gallop faster in a race unless the horse was a veritable slug, in which case a pa i r 0 f spurs would be found far safer and more efficacious. I feel sure none of our leading jockeys ever descended to the use of electric spurs or saddles, and doubt whether they have been used at ail on Melbourne courses in recent years. RACING fixtures . on December 1- —*f akftp una December, B.—Taumaruuui B.*~ December J S C.