TAKANINI HORSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 14

TAKANINI HORSES.

PROMISING MAIDEN.

HIGH CROWN'S PROSPECTS

NOTES AND COMMENTS

I lie three-year-old Hiub Crown is to make Ills debut anions tin- juvoliilec 011 Monday at Avondale. Hiul 1 Clown is a Hue t.vpc of three-yenr-old by Tea Tray

Black-eyed Sue, bailing fi 0111 K. Pope's I akanini stable. lie is expected to develop into a good class performer when he gains 1 lie neceswary experience, and while ho is expected to make a creditable debut, lie would not be favoured by soft tia.k conilltlolis. " The Cnlydon gelding I'leurou will make his reappearance on .Monday at Avondale, and the dash he is showing in bin tasks at, Takaiiuu indicates that he w ill race prominently. A gelding who has never lie 111 laced extensively, Pleuron appeals is 0110 likely to score in maiden company Mloie the season n very lar ailvaneed. Since disappointing at N'cw Plymouth, Maxam lias not been overtaxed, but has been pleasing 111 her latest work and in .ill probability she will again sport «ilk on Monday. Last season Maxam revealed biilliancy, but her appearances last .lutuinn were marred to some extent by nusciilar soreness, mid during the winter ■die was subjected to special treatment. At her best, Maxam is a very capable sprinter who should reach good company. L. Abel intends giving Grandora a 11111 an the second day of the Avondale meeting and although recently ho had to be cased through bruising a foot, his subsequent work indicates that ho will not be .idvereely aft'ectcd. Grandora it) a nice ypo of colt by Oration—Grand Spirit, and in is a long stridor with a pleasing action. The disappointing Homani was schooled aver pony fences at Takanini recently and i<avo such 11 proficient exhibition for a uovico that there seems every likelihood of his making a wuccetisful hurdler when *iven his cliancc in this department of tbe game. It is not very often that a •lovice shows such aptitude as Homani, and 10 may eventually redeem himself for past allures.