NOTES FROM ADDINGTON

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 185, 7 August 1930, Page 16

NOTES FROM ADDINGTON

TRAINING IMPOSSIBLE.

ADVANCE HANDICAP FIELD.

PAGEANT FAVOURED EOR CHIEF EVENT.

(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.")

GHRISTCHURCH, this day,

The weatther this week has been so bad that training is impossible. Luckily most of the horses engaged at the meeting here have done a lot of racing, and therefore do not require much.work. At Addington the cinder tfack on the t' ainmg ground has been freely used. A pleasing feature of the first day's acceptances at Addington is the fine response of owners in the Advance Handicap, a new race to bo run over a mile and a quarter, for four-year-olds. There is" an acceptance of 11, nearly all of whom won races as three-year-olds. The race should provide a keen contest. Since removing to Rangiora, C. E. Lindsay has been working his own small team on the North Canterbury Racing Club's course. Harvest Child and Talaro have both been doing well in their training, and the former, who is a good stayer and races well in heavy going, may show up prominently in the chief event on the first day at Addington. Neeoro was favoured for the chief event at the last meeting of the Oamaru Trotting Clug, held in May. He put up a fine race, leading throughout, till the Southland pacer, Erin's Fortune, came along and beat him rather easily. The track wa4 on the heavy side, and Neeoro paced a fine race for a young pacer. He has been doing well since that time, and he should race well at Addington. The New Brighton trainer, D. M. Robertson, has the big pacer Donard in work again. As a three-year-old Donard showed fine form, and looked like making a high grade pacer, but later in his career he became most unruly at the barrier and practically nothing could be done with him. as a racing proposition. Donard was thrown out of training, and he has been used as a hack and harness horse with the hope that he will improve in manners. He is a very quiet animal in training, and causes no trouble, but is quite different with the colours up. If the big pacer settles down to race solidly he will soon be successful, as he lias 'both speed and stamina. This trainer is also working a half-brother by Drusus, but it will be some time before he is ready to race. With almost a certainty of a heavy track for the first day's racing at Addington pacers and trotters who do well in mud will command most attention from backers. In the chief event Pageant, on the limit, seems certain to race prominently. He has made a quick return to form since last being put into work, and is doing well in his training.