TIMED HIS RUN

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 18

TIMED HIS RUN

MASON, OF NEW ZEALAND! ■.. For the first time in "five or six years Mr. Richard Mason, the leading New Zealand trainer, reached Sydney this morning without the crack sprinter Gloaming (wrote a Sydney writer one day recently). .. ■ . Mr. Mason has brought his wife with i him to bask iii the comparative warmth pi a Sydney winter, instead of shiver-' ing in the cold of tho Dominion. They may go for a few weeks (o Queens-

has not been decided. In the meantime they are staying at Rsndwick. Old Gloaming never timed <a rnn better than his trainer has on this trip, for he got to Sydney just in tim« to hurry to the A.J.C. office and lodge the nominations of .Mr. Greenwood's yearlings for the two arid three-year-old events of the next two seasons. It would have cost something in wireless if the TJlimaroa had been delayed by a storm for three or four hours. Mr. Mason is prouder than ever of Gloaming. When The' Welkin gelding could not race in Sydney last September the trainer stated that he hoped to bo able to prepare him again for lighter tasks in New Zealand. Gloaming's foreleg was fired, and he made such a good recovery that early this year .ho waa able to enter the lists again. "He won four races," said Mr. Mason, "and hs would have won a fifth but for- being left at the post. He was left by several lengths, and he broke the-seven furlong record that day to gain even second place. He never travelled faster in his life."

Gloaming has Been taken in hand again after a brief spell by -Mr. Mason's son, and the veteran hopes to have him over here in time for spring racing, along with two or three horses of Mr. Greenwood's. How will the old champion fare? His mentor is naturally hopeful, or he would not recommend ths expense of another journey to Australia. One inducement is that if he can win one Randwick stake like the' Craven Plate he will head Eurythmic's Australian stake-winning record. J. Lowe did not return by the Maheno as expected, but is waiting -for the Ulimaroa, the favourite1* boat with horses. ■Mr. Boyle is at present on a visit to Victoria, and is returning by the Tahiti. Writing to a friend in Wellington, the owner of Carawock states that the horse was unlucky to get beaten in the big race on the second day of the A.J.C. Meeting. A mistake at the second to last fence nearly brought him down, and then he ran a good second to Ohrysostom, who put up record time for Randwick. Several good offers for Carawock had been -turned down.