HEAVY TRACKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 702, 29 June 1929, Page 10

HEAVY TRACKS

ADVICES FROM TRENTHAM

HORSES IN AUSTRALIA (Special to TIIE SUN) WELLINGTON, Friday. Bookings at Trentham for the approaching Wellington winter meeting are very heavy, and it is certain that the percentage of acceptors is going to be very high. Early arrivals here are Singleton and Mangahaerei, about whose attendance at the fixture there was some doubt after their defeats at Hastings last week. Singleton lo.oks very well and perhaps his trainer has formed the opinion that his Hastings form was not his best. Black Mint was sprinted again yesterday morning and Registered fair time, considering the condition of the track, which had been rendered very heavy again by further rain overnight. The big Catmint gelding is working into excellent shape and now that ho is down in the weights and has the tracks to suit him he should earn some of the winter stake-money. Cerf is working regularly on the tracks at Trentham and went pleasingly over a sprint course yesterday morning. He is wayward, but a fair galloper when fit. Australian advices to hand by this week’s mail say it is understood that it will not be long before two of the team —Oratrix and Cimabue —taken over to Sydney by the Trentham mentor. H. Lorigan, are backed to win a ' double at one of the smaller meetings. Both are reported to be well and it is easy to believe that they are fairly forward, as both thrive on light preparations. New Zealanders who are in Sydney report that Oratrix is better now than when she was unlucky to lose tho Metropolitan Handicap at Randwick last spring. There is also talk of Lorigan’s team being raced in Queensland. The Wallsend meeting is mentioned and there appears to be a possibility of the King’s Cup fixture in August being attended.

Royal Present’s Dam Imported Royal Pet, by Your Majesty, will again visit Rossendale during the coming season. Royal Pet was one of the few horses that was not offered at the dispersal sale of the Kingsfield (N.S.W.) stud, for apart from her success as a brood mare, a considerable amount of sentiment attaches to her, so far as Mr. J. E. Brien is concerned. Rossendale and Royal Pet have provided the Australia turf with several notable gallopers, the outstanding horses being Kampion and Ramulus, which were raced by their breeders. Royal Pet was the dam of Royal Present, who raced with success in Auckland.