TRAINING AT RICCARTON
A QUIET MORNING.
(BI lELEORAPH—FBESS ASSOCIAIIOK.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The weather was fine for training at Biccarton. The trial grass was open, but moat of the horses went on the plough. The work was very uninteresting, and was chiefly confined to steady pacing. • . On the grass Lady Fingers did half a mile in S3 l-ssec; Sir Kosebery took oosec. Mantua did five furlongs in lmin 3 2-ssec. On the plough Vagabond and Kilbird were sent a mile, doing it in lmin 44 3-ssec. Roseday beat Angelo over a mile in lmin 43 3-ssec. ' Mountain Crag beat Auckland very easily over (seven furlongs in lmin 33sec. Wink did three furlongs in' 39sec, and iiillocra three in 43 2-ssec, going easily. Guncase, Balasor, and. Golden Light did half a mile in 52sec, and Royal Star and Jazz, five furlongs in lmin ssec. Most of * the other horses were' connned to half and three-quarter pacing, while a number only did trotting and cantering. To-day's arrivals from the North were Pnntemps, Tanadees, Stream, and La Reve.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 8
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175TRAINING AT RICCARTON Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 107, 2 November 1923, Page 8
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