TAURANGA MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 69, 22 March 1934, Page 18

TAURANGA MEETING.

SOME MATAMATA CANDIDATES PRINCE VAL'S CONDITION. rROSPECTS OF GIGANTIC. Nine Matamata horses are accepted for at the Tauranga meeting on Saturday. Of these Valpeen, Gigantic, Racing Lady, En Tour and La Poto have already arrived. Prince Yal and Poi Dance arc due to leave to-day, and Lucess on Friday. Prince Yal will take his place in the Tauranga Cup. but ho does not look ready for a mile and a quarter journey. In any case the track will have to be easier for him to show his best. Gigantic is showing a return to form, and might run prominently in his engagements!, although he has only been in for a few weeks. R. Martin has this gelding in good condition.

Tho'pick of F. Hill's pair En Tour and La Poto, should be the former, who has been executing fair work. La Poto docs not look a speculating proposition yet awhile.

Racing Lady, the relative of Welcome Boy. will be having her first start in the Trial Plate at Tauranga on Saturday. This filly is speedy for a few furlongs, but it is just questionable whether she will see the journey out at top. She will race in the same interests as Welcome Boy.

Valpeen will be improved by the two runs he had at Paeroa, but the better

proposition of the two local liorees in the hurdles 6hould be Lucess. This gelding went a good race in his last start. It is not yet definite as to whether Valueless will be taken to Tauranga. Much will depend as to whether rain falls in the interim. His work is fair, but he will need a dead track to produce his best.

Street Dancer and First Dance are being spelled by R. J. Mateer, and one of the boxes is now occupied by Exaggeration, who was handed to Mateer at the' Paeroa meeting. Street Dancer and First Dance were not called upon much during their first racing season, and are being given plenty of time. Street Dancer was placed at Matamata, while First Dance earned a winning bracket at Rotorua. The pair will be got ready for early spring racing.

Carl Idem, who lias been an occupant of R. J. Mateer's stable, has shown syuitoms of unsoundness, and is to be returned to his owner.

The racing Brown Abbey has had of late appears to have improved him, and he should be a very fit horse at Easter. He has had no schooling over steeplechase country, but is a natural juniper, and will be taken to Ellerslie some days prior to the meeting.

Master Nerval is oil the track again after being physicked. It is probable lie will take his place in the Easter Handicap field.

Woodful has not been on the tracks for a week or so. He is being given slow work on his owner's private track, and will not be asked for anything fast until nearing the Wellington winter meeting in July.