TE AROHA NOTES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 974, 17 May 1930, Page 12

TE AROHA NOTES

HORSES FOR TAUMARUNUI USE OF COURSE NEXT WEEK Special to THE SUN TE AROHA, Today. T© Aroha is to be represented at the Auckland winter meeting by Glenstar. Honiton, St. Warrigal, Taumai, Marble King, Taurimu, Bahama and White Kinglet. Honiton is continuing to do satisfactory work, and may run well at Ellerslie in June. It is questionable, however, whether the same owner’s Taumai will be at his best at the fixture, for the mishap he suffered at Paeroa in March meant a considerable set-back to him'. Several of the local horses are being prepared for the Taumarunui meeting next week. Their training operations have been hampered inasmuch as they could not be sent along over regulation distances. Those likely to go South are St. Warrigal, Miss Albyn, Intaglio, Bahama, White Ringlet, Glenison and Taurimu. M. L. Lipsey is effecting a decided improvement in the condition of Taurimu, and he may have to be reckoned with at Taumarunui. Backers, however, may leave him out of their reckoning until he actually shows his form. The late Mr. Michael O’Donaghue, of Waihou, was a lover of the thoroughbred, and for many years he bred horses, some of which took their places in district contests. Fifteen years ago he owned the Soult horse, General Soult, which left good stock in the district. He bred the celebrated steeplechaser, Tim Doolan, from the Pinfire mare, Pincushion. After being sold to Mr. W. G. Stead, Tim Doolan gained high honours over steeplechase country. One of A. Cox’s team that is at last moulding into form is Miss Albyn. —She is still thickening out, and the manner in which she executes her work goes to show that she is thriving on it. New Youngster in Work John Wallace has just taken in hand a filly by Weather vane—Panama. She will be prepared for early two-year-old racing. Sir Russell is being paddocked and fed, and looks well for his let-up. His half-brother (by Lucullus) is quite dissimlliar in make and shape, being of a decidedly sturdy conformation. He is striding out very freely on the tracks, and should be ready to race in the early spring months. This week local trainers are enabled to use a portion of the old plough gallop as well as the back stretch of the old course proper. They are expecting to be allowed the use of the whole round of the new plough next week, when work will then be resumed in a more general sense.

Although not nominated for any events in the near future, Black Maire is being kept going on the tracks. Glenison, in the same stable, is thickening out perceptibly, and may be all the better for the alteration in her conformation.