PAKURANGA FIXTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 12

PAKURANGA FIXTURE

PADDON OUT OF BIG RACE NOTES FROM THE TRACK Paddon was scratched at 9 a.m- today for tho Pakuranga Hunt Club’s meeting- at Ellerslie on Saturday. Additional riding engagements for tho meeting are:—J. Mcßae, Mashoor; H. Wiggins, Sea Cob and Wild Country; A. Parsons, Principal and Lucy Rose; O. Mdnally, Daylight, The Sun and Flying Prince; E. Ludlow, Catoma; F. Fergus. Honiton, Vanessa and Hannibal: L. Dulieu. Odin, Freyja, Maori Boy, Gay Cockade and Lady’s Boy. Nancy Lee has arrived back from Riccarton and was out working at Ellerslie this morning. The Southern tour has brought her on nicely and she looks an improved mare since racing at headquarters two months ago. Tho To Awamutu trainer. F. E Loornb, arrived yesterday afternoon with Desert Glow, Lovely Boy, Biddy Comet and Flying Prince. They allappear to have done well during the winter, especially the last named, who is looking better than for some time past. It was at this fixture 12 months ago that Flying Prince led from barrier rise to beat Paddon in the Dunedin Handicap, returning a very nice dividend. He has a chance to repeat the dose in the same race on Saturday. As A. J. Gilmer has been retained to ride Foxhound in both the Green - inount Steeples and the Pakuranga Hunt Cup, it can be assumed that he will keep his double engagement on Saturday. Foxhound has schooled nicely without impressing a great deal since lie came to headquarters, but against weak opposition in his first race he may take some beating. Ho was going a good race in the steeplechase at Paeroa a few months ago till he fell. A Jellicoe Handicap candidate, Sir Archie, has shown signs of lameness lately, and lias evidently not got over his fall in a hurdle event at the Great Northern meeting. Lady’s Boy has not made the progress anticipated since lie came under T. E. Davison’s direction, and he is not a strong fancy for Saturday’s sprint. Even the easy tracks during the winter have not alleviated the soreness apparent in his action.