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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1930, Page 15

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MANY TRAINERS BUSY.

PREPARING FOR NEW SEASON

HORSES FOR PAKURANGA.

There lias been a good deal of rain in the Waikato this week, but there has ! been very little hold-up of the track work, although the going has been heavy during the past few mornings, With the Pakuranga fixture not fat away, several trainers are now busy getting their candidates ready for the meeting there. The Roadman, who is being prepared by Roy Syme for a cross-country career, is making particularly good progress for a novice at the business. The Day Comet gelding, with N. Syme in the saddle, was given a spin over seven fences at Te Rapa on Tuesday morning, when he gave a very pleasing display. The Roadman figures in the Greenmount Steeples at the Pakuranga meeting. Arch Eagle, who is being schooled with a view to hurdle racing, is another of R. Syme's team. Being by Archiestown — Glenpupu, Arch Eagle is a half-brother to Glenetar and races in the same ownership. On Tuesday morning at Te Rapa, Arch Eagle went over a couple of hurdles with plenty of confidence.

On the Scene Early. Roy Syme went on to Riccarton after the Manawatu meeting with a view to schooling Matu and King's Jest, who aro to be his mounts in the Grand National Steeples and Hurdles respectively. Syme has the record of having ridden Wiltshire, whom he also trained at the time, in the* last two Grand National Steeplechases. Ho has a good show of making it three in what is not a vintage year. Last season Syme rode Horomea into fourth place in the big hurdles. He was also the pilot, getting the ride at the last moment, when King's Jest won the Great Northern Hurdles in June. The Hamilton trainer F. Tutchen was very pleased with the way Ruby Dawn shaped in minor company at the Manawatu meeting. The daughter of Day Comet and Ruby may have her next start at Marton. With a little more seasoning Ruby Dawn should prove hard to beat in minor sprint events. When Red Day broke down while contesting the chief event over hurdles on the first day at the Manawatu Club's recent meeting, the owner, Mr. A. Totman, of Tirau, and F. Tutchen, the trainer reached the decision to give the mare away. A Palmerston North veterinary surgeon has taken possession of her and the daughter of Day Comet and Ruby is to bo kept for stud purposes.

Related to Marjoram. F. Tutchen is the owner of a Day Comet—Wahneeta mare, who is, therefore, a half-sister to Marjoram, who had a win and a second in the leading distance events on the flat at the recent meeting at Awapuni. She has never raced. It is the intention to breed from her this season. • When Pennyplain, a member of R. Hannon's team, was raced at the winter meeting of the Auckland Club he was having his first start, when he won the Hunt Club Hurdles. The Quin Abbey gelding finished third over country at his next.start at the meeting, but he had lightened up a good deal in the interval from his first day success. Pennyplain gives promise of developing into a useful jumper. It is not improbable that he. will be seen, out at the Pakuranga fixture.

Pompeius has commenced his preparation for the new season. This member of P. Brady's team stood up well to a fair measure of racing last season, during which he was a winner of eight races and earned stakes totalling £1930. The Lucullus gelding is to have his next start at the Pakuranga fixture, at which he will contest the Jellicoe Handicap, Kingsland Being Schooled. Among the horses 'being trained at Cambridge for a hurdles career is Kingsland, a five-year-old gelding by Quin Abbey from Vestal. Kingsland is owned by Mr. H. A. Harris, for whom Kingfield has proved a useful stakeearner. Kingsland has shaped well in his schooling over the obstacles. He will probably make his first appearance in this department at the Pakuranga meeting. Poyal Visitor, who joined P. Brady's stable at Te Papa after the Auckland Club's winter meeting, had a short letup, The Lucullus—Sports Queen gelding has been in work of late weeks and is beginning to assume racing shape again. Poyal Visitor will contest the Sylvia Park Handicap at Ellerslio toward the end of the month. This halfbrother to Prince Val has shaped as if seven furlongs will be within his capabilities. Paganelli, Hollyholm and Glcna Bay, members of M. J. Carroll's team, are regular workers on the tracks at Te Papa. Each is beginning to show signs that benefit is being derived from the duty which is being extended daily. By the end of the month there promises to bo a further marked improvement, and the racing of early spring will claim their attention. Temperature, who waa cut about the legs as the result of coming down 011 the flat after clearing the fence entering the straight, while contesting the Hunters' Steeples at Te Awamutu in June, has thrown off most of the effects of that mishap/ The Day Comet—Heat Wave chestnut was unlucky in the race under notice, in which 110 was going well up to the period when he fell. Temperature will probably have his next outing *n the Ladies' Bracelet Handicap at the Pakuranga meeting. Valkon in Waikato. Since coming back from the Wellington meeting, at which they each won a race on the concluding day, Daylight and The Sun have been having an easy time of it. These members of Albert Jackson's stable will be taken up again a little later on and placed in active commission for events in the spring. Valkon, who had been trained by E. Ceorge at New Plymouth for some time, has been turned out on the pastures at Ngarua of recent weeks. It is the intention of Mr. P. G. Harper, the owner of the Valkyrian—Glacier gelding, to have Valkon prepared in this province in future. . •