NEW PLYMOUTH WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 50, 27 August 1931, Page 11

NEW PLYMOUTH WORK

ROYAL FINANCE IS FIT

Consequent upon/the heavy lain the New Plymouth, tracks were-very heavy on Tuesday morning,:: and tho times were slow. . '■[■■/ '"'-[-. The hunter. Eoyal K^igh, "unakiug his first appearance on the tracks, and Garrick exercised on. the inside grass. Spanish Prince-was sent; oyer■ two miles on the course proper at threequarter pace.' : Aryada. (Eager) was his companion over :;.ttte : first" wile, and Boyal Bengal.(Robinson) /assisted him over the last mile. Spanish: ' Prince finished on strongly, : ' The Australian-bred- March Alone hopped off ahead . of -Glow Light* but the latter^finished too, well and beat him home over three, furlongs by three and a half lengths'in 42-3-sseb, a smart gallop. . "..- ■ v •■'■ ■; : . Easter Time .finished more, strongly than Little Doubt over six fdrlongs at a good three-quarter pace...: . _ After covering the first' two furlongs iu'27£sce, Orapai moved very sluggishly in tho final stages . of' his five-furlongs gallop, which . occupied ltnin 15sec Orapai does not gallop well'when he is on his own. ' ; ■ ■ r Beginning together,;.''. Singer and Kawliakiua covered three furlongs in 42 l-ssee. Ka%vhakina finished nioro resolutely than he had done in his-earlier cftorts and beat Singer'homo-over six furlongs in Imiii 27 C-sseo^ the last five furlongs takiug. lniui-lSsoc. The hunter MicKacl Shiinoso <George) showed plenty of pacb in covering sis furlongs in lniiu 33Jsee» The first three furloiigs took-43 l-ssec 3 and the last Jive furlongs "were run in. : lmin 16 4-ssec. ■::... .■■ _;■;:;••.: -.;.■■ Covering throe' furlongs in 42sec Lady Ques was always going well with-' in herself to do five ■furlongs in linin li l-osec. She is improving with every Gold Dawn was; not extended to cover five.turlonga in lmin 16see. Although she-is to be tried <,vei- M ven furlongs, Boyal Finance . has been sprinted over only short distances since she raced at Awapuni. She hit out jwy freely over three furlongs, and the Sim"° SOl-T dlted *? her was t^ best gallop ot the morning. The Awapuni hunter Day Lass was galloped over seven., furlongs with JNiniDlcifoot and Moerangi, and, with an advantage in- weights, just headed her companions homo in lmin 46 2-ssee trtbraltar struck form at last when ne finished too strongly fojj jMisg ChaV

1 ter over halt' a niile.in.;S7 l-ssec. Tha * first two furlongs were cut out in the fast time' of 28 •t-sse;c,;and; although Gibraltar had the advantage of the weights, his effort was the more iinpres* sive, ....,-.-