QUIET AT TRENTHAM

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 11

QUIET AT TRENTHAM

TEAMS MISSING^ WANGANUI

WOTAN, HOWEVER,, MAY RUN

(By "Rangatira.") After the bustle of the .last- couplo of weeks it was all very quiet on the tracks at Trenthani this morning. All tho visiting horses'havo left, and there was no serious work by the local brigade. Most of those who raced last week are at presc.it on physic. Hybiscus, 'wiio looks, as though ho would requiro little bringing to' pitch, has arrived in chargo of J. Nelson, formerly attached to J. T. Jainieson's and J. Cameron's b tables, and Nelson is to train him ami also Capetown for Mr. W. Smart, of Wellington. Capetown .will not be brought in, however, till tracks are softer. Trenthani stables will not be represented on the opening day at Wanganui on Thursday, but T. 11. George is going up that day with the two-year-old Wotan (Siegfried—Left), who may be given his first 'race on Saturday. Accompanying Wotan will be Vinco, who is to race at tho Egmont Meeting the I following week. Wotan (JJ. Smith) was galloped half a mile on tbo plough with Le Grand (A. Leach) this morning, and easily beat his mate in oOboc. Le Grand has been suffering from slight shin-aoreness, but ho hit out more willingly today, though he still has lo show what he can do. These are two attractive colts, of whom Lo Grand may be the more brilliant and "Votan the likelier stayer for next -season. Tho only other trial this morning was a sprint down the straight in which, the two-year-old Conversion (Paper Money —Pepper Pot) beat the three-year-old Gainseourt—Matin Bell filly. .The former is in E. Simpson's stable, and tho latter in A. Goodman's stable, neither yet having raced or done much serious, worK. Several yearlings purcnased by Australian sportsmen have boon left with H. A. Telford and H. Pritchard for breaking in and early preparation, and these youngsters <ire already being accustomed to tho gear. Telford received a kicic from one of his lot, and is at present laid up for a -.'sw days with an injured knee, but the breakingin of the youngsters is being continued undjir the charge of H. Bcnge. If will probably bo !ate April or Ma;- before theso yearlings are dispatched .0 Australia. T. George has three yearlings from tho sales to .prepare. • One is the Lackham—Jeanne Laddo filly, who was subsequently bought privately by Dr. M. Litchfield, of Wellington,.after she had been passed in. Another is the Captain Bunsby—Lady Epsom . colt whom Mr. W. 8. Clarke, the former owner of Synagogue, bought cheaply at tho sales; and the third is the Chief Ruler—Summertime colt for whom MrW. Higgins paid 200 guineas last week. Tho Treitham horseman vS. Wilson will bo at Wanganui th,s week, and his mounts on the first day include Cadland, Hard Times, Matrimony, ard Trimden. Wilson somewhat unaccountably found mounts difficult to obtain at the recent Wellington Meeting, but he made good use of those he did have. He rode Miss Hushabye and Orby's Last to victory at great prices, and he also gained the biggest place dividend of tho meeting on Darecourt. His only other three mounts were Orby's Last (first day), Red Sun (once), and Sunee (once). Wilson is a strong rider who cat usually get the bust from his charges, and hia recent dividend percentage has been very much higher than the average.