LATE SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 15

LATE SPORTING

.ON TRENTHAM TRACK

FINAL NATIONAL GALLOPS

BIG EXODUS TO-MORRO^V The grass track was open at TrenL fcham this morning for hoiscs leaving for Sydney to-nionow or engaged at the Giand Rational Meeting. Showeis fell early, and the going was very, ing--1 Shooti&t ran a mile at strong half • pace, taking about Glsee for each, half mile. Royal Game finished a, "good length > ahead of Black Mint at the end of six • furlongs ib Imin 27sec, last halfl mile taking 57 3-osec. Neither was ex--3 tended. > H. Pritchard leaves for Bieearton to-morrow night with Shootist and 1 Royal Game, but will.not be taking 1 Flower. S. Wilson will rido both horses 1 in their engagements. , -.. ' C. Pritehard "sent The' Sun over • seven furlongs, - but tho gelding- was i' under restraint' all the way,/.taking » Imin 36 4-ssec . for tho full distance, ■ and 55 2-ssec for>the. last half-mile. H. I Gray has been engaged-for Air Laddie - in the Avonhead 'Handicap, and so can- ' not ride The Sun, but he ,may bo on- • him on subsequent days. The Sun's • first-day pilot may be H. Young. The r Sun and False Scent, who clia pace -work only this ' morning, also ' go 'South' to- • morrow night.1 , ' LADY NOEL GOES WELL', • ~ Lady Noel, going very attractivply, • beat Lady Rene by va length aha' a 1 half at the close of half a mile^in 52 ". l-oaec, the best gallop of thVmorr.- ---■ ing. A. Goodman -leaves with ,Lady, llene and Black Mint, and H. Eingan : with Lady Noel, to-morrow night.' E. J. Mackie will ride Lady Noel -in her engagements, also Starshooter in the Winter Cnp. ■ '.•<.•,

Ephialtes^ did three-quarter, pace work over a 'mile.' He does not go South till next week,"as he, has'no engagement on the first day. W» -Brady will ride him if Ke! contests flat events. Acis hopped away from the half-mile ahead of Historic, and finished a length in front, their time being 54sec.' It is not certain' if these horses will compete, at Eiccarton,' and ,in any case it -will not be till the final day. ' . Valrewa gave farther evidence of the marked improvement,she has made recently by clearing away 'from Arrowzone over the .closing stages of six furlongs, and beating him to the. post by seven or eight 'lengths. The' time was lmia 24 4-sses for, the full distance, and 55see for the last'half-mile, and she - was doing her work comfortably at the finish/ , Valrewa is by Valkyrian> whose stock usually require time, and it is possible that, as a four-year-old, she will turn out ,a useful performer this season. ,It has not been decided whether she and Arrowzone will go to Riccarton, but space has been pencilled for them on tomorrow night's boat.

AtTSTBAIiIAN CANDIDATES. Teri was to have gone half a mile with the pony1, Matin Chimes, but could not be r restrained from the mile^ and his companion was consequently of no use to him. He was lengths clear when'they reached the half-mile^ and came home from that Joint in 57 2-saec without being pushed along. " Aut'opay broke away clear of his two-year-old sister, Maypay, at', the halfmile, and rattled off the distance boldly in 53 l-ssec, time he could have improved. Maypay 'went for two.furlongs and was then pulled up. She may be raced among the ponies in Australia. Teri, Autopay, and Maypay leave for Sydney on the' Ulimaroa ' to-morrow. Concentrate, Gestnre, Oratorian, Lavjngton, and Early "Cup, who •, also dc part by the .Ulimaroa, were not aiked to .gallop this-morning., ~ "., The only two-year-olds besides* Maypay to he sprinted were H. ,Telford'« trio. The, Tea,-Tiay—Ebba gelding-, who may net be raced this season, did two furlongs in 31sec, and the Tea Tray—Zany^colt and the Tea TrayLady Violet gelding went two furlongs together in 28 3-ssec,' l|ut,were being steadied before the finish. 'If the last-named pair continue on satisfactorily, Telford will put the Ebba gelding aside till later on. «, J. M'Laughlin gave his pair, thePombal—Veil colt and the Lord Quex— Ayah colt, practice at the barrier. The surface under the tape was- slippery, but both moved away smartly enough.