Addington Cinder Track in Demand

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1032, 24 July 1930, Page 14

Addington Cinder Track in Demand

NO TlfaE ESSAYS CANDIDATES FOR AUGUST Special to THE SUN CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The main track at Addington was closed all this week owing to heavy rains and frosts. The cinder circuit has been in demand, some good work without anything in the nature of time-making being accomplished. Prince Pointer is on the jolly side at present, but he is coming to hand well for W. J. Tomkinson. Logan Park is very forward, considering the short time he has been in work, and if his mission is the National Handicap he will be a danger off 4.24. F. G. Holmes has been indulging Muriel de Oro and the trotter Admiral Bingen in long strong work during the past week, with an occasional stiff brush. Laplander and Jolly Pet in the same stable are improving with every run, and George Rey is one of the fittest horses in commission. A Fine Trotter E. C. McDermott has his fine trotter Rose Audo not many removes from her best form. She was kept going right through the winter, and will lack nothing on the score of condition when she is required to tackle trotters of the calibre of Sarsaparilla, New Metford, Ukelele Lady and Writer next month. She has won all her races easily this season, and the indications are that it will take a good one to lower her colours in the spring.

J. Deyell worked Nelson Ata a mile nd a-half on the cinders yesterday

morning. The trotter acquitted himself well, and if he could be depended on to get that extra half-mile there is no doubt that the Nelson Bingen gelding would go far, as he is very solid and brilliant. Midland is working well for A. Bussell at New Brighton, who has hopes that the trotter will come into his own over two miles in the good circle he reached this season. G. McKendry has DeMghtful and Aleron shaping the right way for their August engagements. There is an ungenuine trait about Delightful, but Aleron is a brilliant pacer who has proved himself capable of registering fast gaits over all journeys. Erin’s Pointer has worked well 'ately. She is classy. A Useful Pacer A member of F. Holmes’s team that can be expected to qualify for the higher circle at the spring fixtures is Eugene de Oro, who is training on in his best style. While judicious reinsmanship earned the Rey de Oro pacer at least two of his races, in which he was hopelessly picketed at critical stages, he possesses the family speed, and moderate sprinters are going to find him a hard nut to crack next month. Chef has done well in his work of late, and his efforts over two miles at the August meeting will be watched with interest, in view of the fact that he has not yet been seriously tried as a stayer. At the last New Zealand Cup meeting Chef won a mile saddle event in the exceptional time of 2.9 1-5, and since that performance he has been in retirement.

A Brilliant Pacer

Roi L’Or is a candidate for this year’s national honours whose claims cannot be overlooked. An exceptionally brilliant pacer, one hard two-mile race at a meeting has proved enough

for him so far, and if his mission at the August meeting is the main event bn the third day. he will make his presence felt. While he failed to qualify for the final of the last New Zealand Cup, Roi L’Or put up a fine performance in running second to Terence Dillon in the Christchurch Handicap on the third day, to record 4.23 4-5. When he gave Athalone 48 yards in the Islington Handicap, to suffer a meritorious defeat, Roi L’Or registered 2.40 2-5 on a track that was slightly dead. Since then Roi L’Or has won the Dunedin Cup, and more is likely to be heard of him next month.