SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 140, 15 June 1937, Page 11

SPORTING

BUSY AT TRENTHAM

BIG SPRING HAND

TRACKS IN GREAT ORDER

(By "Eaniratira.">

With the remaining winter meetings and the approaching spring campaign to engage attention, Trentham stables are particularly busy at present. However, as the centre1* is. unlikely to be much, represented in races till the Wellington Meeting next month, there is not a great deal being done-in the way of serious galloping. Twenty rising two-year-olds alone are daily workers on the tracks. The weather was near p§*fsct for training this morning, but taost of the work was of an exercise nature. The tracks at present are in better order for the time of season than they have been for many winters. The recent ' comparative absence of rain has enabled the grounds to dry out again, and the going on the' course proper would'be quite fast were there racing this week.' Along spell of fin* weather can hardly be expected in mid-winter, but .there are prospects of the best conditions for. training operations during the next week or two. - v • . ■ , No serious galloping was attempted this morning. Red Sun and Good Sun ran seven furlongs in , lmin . 41sec. Southern Blood and Windward, with Mother-in-Law accompanying till the .last furlong, took lmin 23Jsec for six furlongs. oKorero, Sigurd, and Haupangi ran five furlongs in lmin llsec. Revival and the Intruder gelding did six furlongs in lmin 27sec. In none of these trials were the , horses extended. ■ ■. t■ ■ Red Sun is looking very well at present, • and he will be racing over hurdles at Trentham and Riccarton. Korero • has' shown no sign of recent soreness and it is hoped, to land him sound at the post for next month's meeting, when his main mission will "be the Parliamentary Handicap again. First Hand (E. Burgess) was given further education at the pony hurdle, but he did not like jumping against a glaring light and finally' rolled _over the" fence and dislodged his rider. After that he bolted a couple of times round the course, but he took no harm from the escapade. Laggard (E. Burgess) and Gay Mulla (D. W. Bush) were schooled over a round of the hurdles and gave a satisfactory exhibition for novices.- They steadied themselves at the fences but 'made no mistakes. ' Bonnie Rollox has shown improvement since he broke down in a tendon at Wanganui, but, it is doubtful if he will be required to race again this winter. However, he is not yet being turned out, and he will probably be nominated on the* off chance for the Manawatu and Wellington Meetings. ■ Boomerang came down from Auckland today, and his next race;will noW be the Whyte Handicap at the Wellington Meeting. It was intended to run him at Awapuni before Trentham, but after his northern success he- ; wiH' be reserved for the Whyte and then probably the Winter ' Cup. '. T. R. George believes that Boomerang may make a Hew Zealand-Cup horse-in the spring and that will be one of his future objectives. The Trentham horsemen P. Burgess and S. Wilson will be.riding at Hastings this week. Burgess has been engaged for Sir Nigel and Terry, and Wilson will be ori Passion Flower, Hunting Tartan, and Top Hat or Kelios. .' . .