MATAMATA HORSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 14

MATAMATA HORSES.

PRINCE VAL IN WORK. -TRY LUCK RETURNS HOME. "Mr. J. A. Clothier's pair Woodful and Lord Val have been eased up, and have not been on the track since the Ohinelmiri meeting. This owner has put Prince Val into work after a spell of several months, and it is the intention to get him ready for winter racing. The trio will probably go to Wellington and Christchurch. Sweet Lap, in the same stable, has not yet resumed work. Try Luck was taken home by his owner after his double win at Tauranga, and it is not intended to go on again seriously with the three-year-old for several months. Try Luck is yet on the small side, but has plenty of time to fill out. Gay Lap was very little bigger than Try Luck at the same age. An interesting part of Try Luck's history is that his dam was bought by Mr. Te Mete as being empty, the price being a modest fiver. She foaled about seven weeks afterwards to Lapidary, the foal being Try Luck. Stray Lap has been sent back to his owner at Hinuera, but will be brought in again to be prepared for spring racing. In the meantime R. Martin has only the General Latour gelding in work, so that this trainer-jockey intends lo follow the latter calling more in the winter. W. Hennessey has arrived here with Gigantic, and the latter will bo exercised on the Matamata course until he is taken to Whangarei next week. Alloy and British Columbia are still inmates of R. S. Martin's stable. Not much, is being done with Alloy. The Thespian gelding needs freshening up. British Columbia is working satisfactorily. Welcome Boy was left at Tauranga by R. J. Mateer, and will not be taken up again until next spring. Welcome Boy cannot act in heavy going, hence his retirement for the winter. He won four hurdle events during the summer. Day Lark, the jumper in W. J. McLean's stable, who hae been suffering with a nasal ailment, has been put into work. Lucess, in the same stable, is going along satisfactorily, and should be a very fit horse when he goes into the starter's hands at Easter.

J. W. Anderton has eased Spearwin up, and will only have Knight of Australia and Baroscope at the Ellerslje Easter meeting. There are no immediate plane for Grand City, who ran third at Tauranga in hie first start. Grand City's work has been interrupted twice in the last twelve months, and he had only been up a few weeks before the Tauranga meeting.