ON TRENTHAM TRACKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 11

ON TRENTHAM TRACKS

SILVER RING HERE

SIEGMUND OUT FOR SPELL

(By "Raiigalira.")

With the close proximity of the Wellington Racing Club's Autumn Meeting, "Vhich opens on Thursday, it was anticipated that there would be some visitors on the tracks this morning and some fast galloping, but there was neither. The only visitor on the scene was-Silver Ring, and after the torrential rain in the eariy hours of the morning the trial grass was not opened, except for a single gallop. There was heavy rain throughout the night in the Valley, and though the weather had cleared again at dawn everything was very wet. There now seems no prospect of faster going for the meeting than at best an easy track, and more rain would make.it soft. Today is fine, but without a great deal of drying in the air. Permission was secured to sprint Deficit (R. Morris) half a mile, and he recorded the good figures of 51 2-ssec on the sodden track. He knocked himself last Thursday and his gallop this morning was in the nature of a test. He looks an improved horse after his recent trip north. His stablemate Debham is every bit as well as when he went away. The riding of H. Telford's horses on the first day (Debham, Deficit, and Accomplice) will be done as usual by C. Goulsbro', who was not injured in his fall at Napier Park last Thursday. Goulsbro' will also be on Good Sun in the Trial Plate, but he will not be attending on the second day, as he has to return for Ohinemuri.

Silver Ring is carrying a bright bloom, but' he is in need of galloping. After recovering from his bruised foot, he suffered trouble in the shoulder, and, according to his trainer (J. Stewart), it is fifteen weeks since he had a fast trial. Whether he starts in the Thompson on Thursday 'depends- on the outcome of a gallop he is_ to be given tomorrow morning. He will probably also run in the Challenge Stakes on the second day, when he will have to carry the full 141b penalty for his three wins' in Sydney early in the season, making his weight 10.1, an impost under which only Gloaming (three times), Achilles, and Grand Knight have so far succeeded. His rider will be A. E. Ellis.

Silver Ring, in common with most of the other horses, was given only pacing and exercise this morning.

Siegmund was sent out to the country at the weekend for a three months' spell, as it was realised that a firm track such as he desires is now past possibility this week. His absence reduces the St. Leger field to four, as Flying Chief has already been withdrawn. .

Maestro, whose only engagement at the meeting will be the Champion Hack Cup on the second day, and Peacock, from the south, were expected to arrive over the weekend, but they did not put in an appearance. Not many visitors are now likely to turn up till i during tomorrow.

Some additional riding engagements for Thursday are: H. N, Wiggins, Darecourt; S. Wilson, Friesland, Acceptable, Only One, Sea Wrack, and Alunga; W. J. Broughton, Arctic King; P. Atkins, Sunny Blonde and Mandamus; P. Burgess, Myriam, Laggard, and Gay Hunter; B. H. Morris, Chief Ranger, Laughing Lass, Southern Blood, The Bigot, and Smoke Screen.