ASHBURTON WINNERS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 139, 16 June 1930, Page 6

ASHBURTON WINNERS

FROM "'A:; WIDE FIELD

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.") CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day. Gold Country, who won the Trial Handicap at Ashburton on Saturday, is a three-year-old, by Rey de Oro from the New Zealand Cup winner Country Belle. He is a quality looking young horse, and paces very attractively. It was his first start, and over the final furlong he raced very green, although hist speed was always noticeable. Glenville, who was second to Gold Country, as racing unluckily, as she seems to go just well enough to be beaten. She should make a high-grade pacer over two miles next season. Merrijiga, the winner of the Longbeach Handicap, has. always shown speed, but in his early races he was unsteady. He seems to be settling down, and he will reach better company. . Great Logan, who won the Ashburton County Handicap by a narrow margin, has usually raced best over short courses. He is a powerfully-built pacer, endowed with plenty of speed, but in two-mile events previously he had not shown much determination over the final quarter of a mile. He saw out the distance really well on this occasion, and had to show courage in the final effort, as he was being hard pressed by Pluto and The Shrew. Great Logan is only five years old, so there is a possibility of considerable improvement. Wakataua owed his success in the Acton Handicap to superior stamina. He won at Addington earlier in the month, but he looks a better horse now. The Australian-bred trotter Home Voyage scored his first success in the Dominion when he won the Stewards' Handicap. Ho trotted a fine race, going very steadily throughout. In hia earlier races here he had not kept to his gait, and did not appear to like racing in a field. Trimmer, usually an unreliable^ horse in his races, was on his best behaviour jn the Winter Handicap, for he raced iv great,

stylo, especially over the final quarter of a mile. Country King paced ft fine race to win the Farewell Haudicap." He had a good record in Southland, but after ho came here he went off, and W. J. Tomkinson was in despair about his prospects. He has improved out of knowledge lately, and he may' go ou to top class. He is booked for a trip to Auckland, and he may win there.