ON TRENTHAM TRACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 11

ON TRENTHAM TRACKS

ENGAGEMENTS OF HORSES

BILLY BOY AND VERDEN

There was quite an amount of work done at TreiUham. this morning, but few horses have immediate engagements and little of it was serious. The weather was fine and bright, though the wind was chilly, and the tracks were in good order. The plough was open for the first time since the autumn, but the trials were done on1 the insido grass, which is very fast at. present.

Trentham's only candidate for Marton tomorrow will be Redeem, who has done well in her recent work but may benefit with a' race or two in her. She left for the north by float this morning. It is understood that W. J. Broughton is to ride her.

Redeem will also be racing at Wanganui, where the centre will have four other runners. Two of these, J. \V. Lowe's pair Red Sun and Sunee, are already at Wanganui, having left on Sunday so as to have the benefit of trials with, seasoned horses. The other pair, H. Pritchard's Purse and Nightlass, will not go till next Monday.

Purse (J. K. Robertson) went well this morning in running half a mile in 49Jsec, but the track was very fast. Nightlass (Eobertsoa) just shaded Roseville (L. Harding), 'with Golden Glow (D. Wilson) two lengths back, over two furlongs down the straight in 25isec. . ■ '

Trentham will probably have half a dozen or so more candidates at the Foxton Meeting the week after Wanganui. Very few trainers, however, have any intention of going.down to the Marlborough Meeting at the end of the month, and the Blenheim people look like finding it very difficult to secure sufficient nominations to run their proposed fixture.

An impression prevails that when Billy Boy's trainer R. W, A. Lewis came north from Christchurch last week he went on to Auckland, but this is not so, as Lewis is at present at Upper Hutt with. Bil'y Boy, Verden, and his Valkyrian youngster, and it is probable, that he will remain there till after the Wellington Meeting next month. So far the jumpers have not been down to the track, as they are being allowed full opportunity to freshen up after their recent racing.