AUCKLAND MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 134, 8 June 1934, Page 12

AUCKLAND MEETING.

NOTES FROM EPSOM. TRAINING ACTIVITIES. With the Auckland Trotting Club's winter meeting less than a fortnight hence trainers at Epsom are beginning to send their charges along in earnest. There is a fair percentage of southern visitors engaged at the fixture and next week should see some very interesting work taking place at Epsom. STILL AT ADDINGTON. Although the southern mentor S. A. Edwards was expected to take up the position of private trainer to the Tamahere sportsman Mr. W. Johnstone, he is still at Addington, where he has a fairly good string of horses under his charge. Among them is Sure, who won a double at the Canterbury Park meeting. Sure is a very promising pacer and more successes axe likely to come her way. WILL IMPROVE. The three-year-old trotter Nelson's Glory has been given plenty of solid work by M. Morrison at Mangere and she is acquitting herself well. When trained by S. M. August Nelson's Glory displayed plenty of speed in her races, but lacked experience. She has had two races of late and they appear to have improved the Nelson Bingen filly considerably. The class in the opening trotting races is not as good as usual and it would not be surprising to see Nelson's Glory running prominently in her engagements. M. Morrison has only just taken out a trainer's license, but he has had a good deal of experience with the trotting sport and, given the opportunities, Morrison should soon take his place on the winning drivers' list. IVIAY COMPETE AT AUCKLAND. A. T. Newdick is beginning to send Roi Grande along more seriously of late and the chestnut trotter is standing up to his work in fine style. Roi Grande is one of the best trotters imported from Australia, and although he has only won one race in New Zealand his record would have been an attractive one but for developing lameness when he was beginning to show his best form. Since being thrown out of work two years ago A. T. Newdick lias made a couple of attempts to get Roi Grande to stand up to a solid preparation, but lias failed each time. Hoi Grande is in great condition at present and it will bo interesting to note how lie performs : at the Auckland meeting after his long 1 absence from, thet xacg track. J

TURNED OUT. The speedy, but erratic maiden pacer Derby Fame has been turned out at Mangere by S. M. August, and the chestnut gelding will spend the winter in the paddock. Derby Fame has plenty of speed for a novice, but is not the best of stayers at present. With the experience he has had this season a decided improvement will most likely be noticed in liim when next produced on race day. He is one of the most likely of the Auckland novices to open their winning account early in the new season. A LIKELY PACER. Rayon d'Or is hitting out in pleasing style in his work at Epsom and R. D. Kennerley's gelding has derived a good deal of benefit from the racing he had on the country circuit. Rayon d'Or is engaged in the improvers' races at the Auckland meeting, and as the class is not particularly strong the son of Rey de Oro has good prospects of opening his winning account. When Rayon d'Or finished third to Play Lady in the Kaipaki Handicap on the second day of the Waikato Trotting Club's meeting he registered '2.38 4-5, and is now handicapped on the front of 3.45. A GOOD TROTTER. One of the most popular wins at the Canterbury Park meeting was that recorded by Biddy Parrish, whose trainer, W. J. Tomkinson, is at present in hospital. Biddy Parrish has long been recognised as one of the best trotters in the Dominion, possessing plenty of speed and stamina, but on numerous occasions when she has held bright prospects the daughter of Guy Parrish has nullified her chances by breaking badly in the early stages. In both of her engagements last week she was handled very carefully in the early part by J. Frascr, jun.. but once she struck her gait always looked a likely winner, and she beat her opponents easily at the finish. A GOOD COMEBACK.

Rollo looks a new liorse after the good rest he had during the early period of the season, and his win ill the King George Handicap at the Canterbury Park meeting at Addington is his second success since Easter. He won a mile and a quarter race at Forbury in May and on that occasion the going was heavy. On Saturday his success was made possible by the very slow pace set over the first two furiongs. Rollo was thus able to pick up his handicap of 48 yards with a minimum of effort. He dropped in behind his two opponents at the completion of six furlongs, where R. B. Berry him to coast along until within half a mile from home, where the driver took him up to the loader to test him for the remainder of the contest. These tactics enabled Hollo to make full use of his stamina, and he managed to squeeze home by a neck. Rollo was educated and developed by his present trainer, "R. B. Berry. Rollo s appearance and performance suggest that he will do further favours for the Dunedin sportsman, Mr. H. M. Allan, who already has enjoyed a list of sucesses with the son of Jingle and Madflin Templeton.