TRAINING AT TRENTHAM.
■:"';• --•.; OPERATIONS.YESTERDAY. ; -'~•■ After; a very, heavy; frost'tbe morning Broke delightfully.'fine- and clear ;for' the- gallops 'at Trentham yesterday morning. Several of the' horses were sent out walking ion the roads immediately: after, breakfast,, but': track .'.work; did not : commence' 1 till nearly '9 'o'clock. Hit-' arian. was the first; to .appear. He was trotted twice round, and/then.came:home from the six-furlongs-post at a good threes quarter pace. Iney (was on the tracks .this morning, being allotted a round at half-pace. King Post and Succession finished together over four furlongs; ,run in 55' 2-ssec. Sweet Angelus ran half a mile alone in 57sec., the last three furlongs taking, a tick under 42sec.-. Proniin sprinted two furlongs down the back in 28sec. , First. Mate: galloped 'a' mile without company, the last seven furlongs'taking Tmin. 42sec. First Consul and Purakau were associated in-..a spin over.' four furlongs, covered in 555e0.. Purakau finished in front, but both galloped well.' task'*was 1 a:, six-furlongs/ gallop, ■' run,/ in', .lmiii.- 27sec. Llamvern ,ran 'a .similar .distance]' covering the list (five :furlongs-'in-lmin.. 14scc,; Half to three-quarter pace .work of. a', useful char-' acter was performed. by Iranui: Truganini, Cohort, Magneto, luchbonny, Knight Commander, Longner,;and, a number' of..others. ■;' Tauira went a mile'and a half over four hurdles, jumping -,the,'first throein''faultless, style, but hitting the last. Exmoor was givena similar task,:'"and; flew ; without;-a mistake.- •■Waitarere • jumped four /hurdles, and two of. the steeplechase, fences. He. appears. io ; bej.a ..trifle backward, But took -all ,bis, fences ..without .'any trouble. North Head was .sent a rousing. ga}ldp, over twelve: furlongs, .covering the last mileiii 2min. 3sec; Irish, Ben Jonson, Lo Bean, ■ Scotty, Ballyl Te - Arai, '■'. Stormpnt, Southern Cross,: .Capitol,, and; Silken Rein were given long, slow work, i Commander :• and; Yosami didfast. rounds/ , -j'-i.-.' ;■•■-';■• ;'.;'•' .-.'.;■ •
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 560, 15 July 1909, Page 6
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293TRAINING AT TRENTHAM. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 560, 15 July 1909, Page 6
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