OPAKI TRACK WORK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1938, Page 7

OPAKI TRACK WORK

NO SERIOUS GALLOPS THIS MORNING. LADY MONTANA WELL. (By “The Cynic.”) , With six or eight horses away at Otaki, little or no serious track work was done at Opaki this morning. Work was confined to the plough. Lady Montana and White Rajah were companions over a nice easy three furlongs, with the former always doing the better. B. Burgess has Lady Montana in great heart and a win should not be far distant. O. Midwood, a promising young apprentice of Burgess, has applied for a licence and. will have his first ride in silk on Lady Montana in the Flying Handicap at Masterton. The lad has shaped particularly well. Rotoma and Night Storm did easy work, the latter giving indications of pace. He is a Masterton Nursery candidate. Kindly, an attractive, pacy-looking chestnut, which has been off the scene for nearly twelve months, took a lot of holding down to half pace. Kindly is trained by W. Morrison, Opaki, and is owned by Mr J. A. McDougall, of Pirinoa, who formerly raced the wellknown Nightly, now standing the season in the Wairarapa. Kindly figures in the nominations for the Maiden Stakes at Masterton. The Foxbridge two-year-old. Gay Fox, a big striding black, did a working gallop. If size and looks count for anything, the Lord Quex—Native Queen mare, owned by Mr B. Kelleher, should develop into a likely sort. A four-year-old. she has just commenced her preliminary track work and she behaved nicely at barrier practice this week. Mr J. A. Betts has a nice looking bay gelding. Binkie by Cape Horn out of Erin’s Beauty in light work. He will be given a trial in the Maiden at Mesterton. In company with Rose Mimetic, another promising sort. Binkie is credited with cutting out half a mile in 52 secs, this week. The course proper at Opaki is in splendid order for the meeting this month. CLOSING OF ACCEPTANCES Acceptances for the Masterton meeting. to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, October 12 and 13. will close on Friday, October 7. Indications are that large fields will contest the various events, and two first-class days' sport are promised. The club has kept faith with its members as well as with owners and trainers by deciding to race, although it lost a Saturday, and it is up to the public of the Wairarapa to attend in bumper numbers and ensure the success of the meeting.