THE TROTTING TRACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 195, 19 August 1930, Page 10

THE TROTTING TRACK.

WORK AT EPSOM. ; -

VERY MTTIiE Dpnf£

LAPLANDER CHANGES OWNERSHIP

Both the cinder .and dirt tralke'w'' , on the heavy side at Epsom thig- »$£ ing, and trainers were mostly coMenf to exercise their. horses on" the sa& which provided good goin<». ' .' A. Julian was not hard°on his f» and Belle Axworthy, BolvS" , Nelson Girl and others were give^S ]°eo m o' ■ ■ . Si ~-.;*.

Direct Morning (Cockbill) and Tasker (Brain) were hopple!i,rvfe stepped off together at the nulfS quarter peg. Direct Morning went nff ifl the lead, but entering the straiS the last time Nelson Tasker raS alongside, and the pair ■' finished "i¥• : • ■"'

Golden Huia and Lady Ena > We T worked out over about a mile an/ half, both trotting solidly, but were not asked to go fast. ' ' Tom Pepper (Phipps) was Rllowed.to' stride along at about three-quarter ni ' on tlie cinders. • . > • ,, 7 "* Explosion trotted a couple of miles at an easy pace on the cinders, heinVar' conipanied by The Abbey, whowasun 1 hoppled: ..: .;;•., , Stoney (Fainnan) was strapped b and he jumped off to go a. mile and a half on the cinders. At the end 'of seven furlongs he went to a tangle ~ Li a little further on he broke;up a '«ain and was then pulled up. -It Was not an impressive display. , ■■'• Mountain. Dell "(Hill) ;put.iria;co\inle of rounds on the sand at the. ; *all6mW gait. > I,e " Mignonne (McMahori)' was; g iven useful work'on the cinders witlfthe ho-jplos on. '. ... ■. ■'•.-.. -■•'. ;-.■:■■ Worthy Nor (O'Kane).. was 'only <riv en light exercise. "' ' • e ■ Tradesman (Phipps). and. Margaret WaJ&ce (Sandall). covered a.couplesof rounds on the sand athalf pace. ' - Evelyn Loeanda and Pavlova were not required to do any hoppled work. ■ Student Prince (Smith), worked leisurely over a mile. ,'. ' J ' •

Dan Direct (Smith) went a milaaW a Ji'aif' unhoppled, at half pace. . v Arachne (Fairman), who fell oii-Sat-urdajr, was given the lightest; of ljo<r. ging with the hopples., ou,\- She ?s apparently none the worse for her fall.

j. Shaw, who drove five uvianiirs'at: the Metropolitan meeting, arrived back in Auckland this morning... ; He brojight Wai-plane and Laplander; 'with Jijni. Laplander has been secured by m.'S, ;K. Corrigan, and will carry his, colours-at the 'relief meeting. Shaw isft Native Prince in Christchurch with D. Bennett,

. Great. Vanity (Webb) worked ovieA mile at thre-quarter pace on the saiidf J. Shaw had decided to apppiil the line of £25 imposed uoon: him by the Metropolitan Trotting - Cliib stewards in connection with the ■falling of Travis Axworthy and Linkman in the National Haiulicop on the final day, , when itHviis held tlui+ S'haw had been -sruilty of careless driving of Native Prince;'':'; J