DERBY PREPARATION

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 10

DERBY PREPARATION

GOLDEN HAIR RESUMES

(Special, from "Limited.")

1 HAWEKA, November 29. Ilawera trainers are at present busy .preparing* their charges for the holiday raein", and nomination closing nest week will give a good idea o£ programmes mapped out. l . . . . . Golden Hair lias resumed- track work and started preparing for her Auckland engagements. Close on a dozen maiden horses aic getting thiough solid work.' The moie tor,\\aid of these are lliuinui, bandlurk, lvii toiu, Wcalherzanc, Hound Table, and Papai iui. Taitoru, .Round Table, and bandlark uru three who should shortly lose .their novico status. Of the two-ycjr-olds VVhcuuakuva is> btill being apportioned light tasks, m which he appears very eager to work. J Fryer's pair; Kadiant Star and the Hunting Song—Caruiola youngster, are shaping woll, especially the former, who will .probably hay a.race at the Manawatij Meeting. ' " . , Silver Wicgs, the half-sister ly Tea Tray to Inflation, has been occasioning her trainer, W. Grindlay, anxiety by showing signs of soreness after working. In .her first speed trial last Saturday ehe skipped over.a couple of furlongs m Ji l-ssec, but was palpably sore after the I gallop and will be laid aside for the present. There is no doubt she has speed and is developing splendidly, and a wise 'course is probably being adopted by speUMr A. Alexander's Diacquenod—Wake Up filly is doing everything right at present and showed herself a quick beginner when given barrier practice during tUc ne\vco.mcr Tditoiu has been attracting attention by his,brilliant Uack work, and providing he can reproduce it he will soon bo out of maiden class. Last Saturday he easily beat Green Linnet m a_gallop over five furlongs m lmin 3 1-ascc, doing the job very attractively. Sandlark was going better than Weathcr/anc over a similar journey tiaveiscd in "A.r'ouee, was feoicg comfortably alongside the hurdler Don'Erma, with Ingenuity some lengths, back, in a half-mile gallop in 52sec. Arouse is doing well and showintr no signs or his former infirmity. The Hawera. trainer-O. Cox returned last week and was warmly welcomed and congratulated by his brother trainers. His three-year-old Bound Table pleased him by working at half pace to, the two-fur-long peg and then scampering home.m " A"t e present Golden Hair, Kound Table, and -the. two-year-old Friesian comprise Cox's team,' but additions are expected SlTlie > hurdler Calamine is lining clown nicely and galloped half a mile in 52sec, beating her companion Benedictine. Richfield continues to get through his track work satisfactorily. The Tiger and St. Clara are also doing well without being required to stretch out.