TE AROHA NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 14

TE AROHA NOTES

MARBLE KING BACK IN WORK Special to THE SUN TE AROHA, Tuesday. The contractor for the Te Aroha course improvements finished his work last week. Fencing and grass seed sowing will now be proceeded with. A furlong will be available for galloping purposes in three weeks, but the inner grass will have to await the grassing process. However, it may not be long before training operations here are in full swing again. Marble King is being put into active commission again, and should be quite ready for winter racing, for which, judging by his racing at Trentham in July last, he is well suited. He has again joined G. A. Reid’s team. Glen star put up a good performance by winning the Frankton Hurdles ones mile and a-half, in 2.42 2-5, at his last appearance. When first schooled here over hurdles he showed no aptitude whatever for the game, but when tried again a couple of months ago he jumped carefully and safely. On dry tracks his pace will always serve him in good stead. He is the most promising recruit to this branch of the game seen out for some time. The two-year-old gelding bv Lucullus—Miss Floss, in J. H Wallace’s stable, is in light work. He is shaping up admirably, and as a three-year-old is expected to be a pavable proposition. The Te Aroha-owned Lucky Alice has shown good improvement in her work of late. Her pace is undoubted, and when she manages to stay on, will again be enrolled a "winner. Indolent disappointed his connections by his running at Te Rapa. He had so improved in appearance, and was galloping in such taking fashion, that it would not have surprised manv if Jl® run into the monev. Perhaps the General Latour gelding mav do i F t°i Ver v lonser distan ces than he has lately been raced over.