SPORTING.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1735, 30 April 1930, Page 1 (Supplement)

SPORTING.

(By Don Ceasar).-

TEOTTING NEWS. FIXTUBE. May 8, 10—Forbury Park meeting.

Admiral Bingen will net be given the "go-by" many times from now on. He has stepped some fast clip's lately for which he reaps the full benefit of the new handicapping arrangement. For a mile and a-half he has 3min 23 4-ssec to his credit.

Kid Logan never left the issue in doubt when he won last Wednesday at Christchurch and what a sore head he gave the back-markers by his record time of 2min 8 2-ssec. Won't he be in the boom- when set going again. Tom Thumb looks a good thing for future raring. He is an honest , pacer and F. Holmes thinks a great deal of him.

• Dolores has only £o go steady to be annoying to the leaders and it was only a bad break that cost her a race in the north last week.

Nelson de Oro has been troubled for some time past with getting short in the wind when asked to do serious work at the end of a race and his connections have been endeavouring to remedy the fault. Not authoritatively, T learned that, prior to his going to race at Addington where he won an event, there was extracted a splinter of wood from one of his nostrils.

Morning Sun has helped a lot "with C. S. Donald's place on the winning list and the ex-Southland pacer is not finished yet and should be with them again at Forbury Park in May.

Watch out! King Pointer chased Harold Thorpe home on the last day of the Metropolitan meeting a week ago.

O. E. Hooper is a hard customer when he, is on it and he may change his mind when he comes down to Dunedin to race at the local fixture there soon.

ConcJifE started one day only at the Metropolitan meeting and he made a hold showing in the Easter Handicap until the field turned into the straight and then he was not heard of. Up till then he had been well,' in the picture when not long after the start he ran upv-into second, place and from which position he began to fade. 'He may do better over lesrf ground next time although, he has gone two miles well before. ' , ;' ■■: ':.

The adjustments for the Forbury Park meeting have been made satisfactorily by Mr Tl Fogg and have thrown a better light on the chances of those engaged. The Prince. of Wales Handicap, being the main event, will, of course, be the chief topic and the Native Prince—Caijmel (bracket), Concliff and King Pointer have started to receive more attention at present than the rest. The Plying Handicap which makes up the other part, of the "leg!" has brought into prominence Morning Sun, Wrackeen. The Shrew —Vehhome bracket and the Jean McElwyn-Sunshower couple. Sunchild, who registered. just over 2min 13sec at the Invercargill meeting in March appears in the Beach Handicap on a 2.16 mark at the meeting to be held at Forbury Park soon.

Deceitful who finished in second place from 72yds behind in the Allenton Handicap at the Ashbiirton Ing held last Saturday has come in to favour for engagements at Porbury Park, where on one second behind in the Bayfield Handicap, must be considered.

Wrackeen will next be Been racing at the Forbury Park meeting and she* is Jikely to find favour in the sprint events. >

Pink Sftgaras one likely to show improvement down at the Forbury park meeting. £>he is trained, by B. ; Teahen at Pleasant Point and in-her last two starts has been third and second re-spectively—-at Timarn and Ashburton.

RACING NEWS. •.FIXTURES. April 30—Avondale (second day) meeting. April SG- —Reef ton meeting. • .' "7 May 3-—Amberley meeting. Gay- Crest stayed on remarkably well to" win the Great Autumn and since first beginning to race this gelding.by Shillinglee-Hoopoe has improved, all the time and it was only last February that he finished third in a hack seven furlongs at the Dunedin meeting. Nedda ran a much better race on the last day. of the Riverton 'meeting and was going very well up to the last half furlong of the mtfei which was the distance of the event and was fifth when it was all over. She should come to-hand quickly now. Inevitable is pushing himself up amongst the good oneß and he is more than a moderate one. At'the Southland meeting he will probably be racing again. ■...

Charmaine 13 improving with every Taee and she should be as good a sprinter as her brother, Bin Tin Tin, with a season or two's experience.

The Viscount should be -worth a saver any time now and the brother to Count Cavour is gaining a lot of friends. Te Awhina won very impressively at the C.J.G. meeting and. he may have been troublesome in the Great Easter had he" started. Even with an even break First Sight, the runner-up, would have been fully extended and th.en : may not have beaten him, some say. ~'

Radiac, who showed good form in the steeplechase: events at the 'Biverton Easter meeting, will, be out again in quest of stakes at the Southland meet-, ing in a week or .so.

Glehrowan went off- disappointingly in form at the beginning of .the year but lie was himself again when racing up at Ricearton at Easter. He has proved well f'br Mr W. Crossa'n . and possesses a lot .of gameness.

Arikiwai .has, been favourably treated for his engagement at the Amberley meeting on; Saturday. He was unlucky when he contested the Great Autumn and was not.very well assisted by his. rider and lost good positions on one or two occasions.

T>m'.uß deserves a win and there is no '-fault to find with his jumping. Wingatui runs well up to nine fur* longs but over that seems' a trouble to' h"r. She "is, lioweve'r, in better form just at present "than' she has been for some considerable time. ,'