OTAGO HUNT CANDIDATES

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 52, 30 August 1934, Page 15

OTAGO HUNT CANDIDATES

The weather was quite warm and summer-like at Wingatui on Tuesday morning-, following a light frost overnight (says "Sentinel"): 'A fairly large" number of horses worked on - the inside grass- track'next to the plough track, and others Were allotted, exercise on' the .schop.liiig:, course.;.. The -going was 1 on the heavy;sidcyand very little fast work took place. Osculate was aii6tte"d"half.-paee work. He looks a bit on-the-light side after his recent racing at Eiccarton. Grand Finale got-through a-useful task of steady .pacing. , *'....'.. Ventrae and Saxophone strode over a sound working gallop and' finished together at the; end of six furlongs. Saxophone went "well, and Ventrae appears to have thrown off the soreness he exhibited during the Grand National Meeting. , ■■■'-.■', Master Anomaly and Silver Lark galloped five furlongs together but were not fully extended. • ■ Lycidas Was schooled Over three flights of hurdles and shaped fairly well for a novice.

Others that got through useful tasks included Meadow' Lark, Braw Lad, Queen Tractor, Sungem, Flying Amy, Dismiss, Travenna, Queen of Song, Bellbird, Supertonic, Motukarakarn. The horses trained by F. Shaw and G. Fielding did not appear on the course during the morning.