THE CANTERBURY HORSES.
i.BX TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHRISTCHURCH. Saturday. Canterbury stables will be strongly represented at th> Auckland Trotting Club's meeting. J. Bryce is already on the scene at Jipsom with a team which includes Aburin, Kohara and Sparkling Pronto, while speculator has since gone north. Others trpm this Quarter are Glenelg Gold "Bud, islue Star, Logan Chief. Locanda Mac, Kean John, Napland and Ruby Huon. They look a pretty useful lot. The pacer i*cron fell while being worked tart in coutpa' y with Great Bingen a week ago. It, W ;,s eared at first that he might oe seriously li irt. but he escaped very fortunately, and when exercised two days later he showed no ill effects. His trainer, F. Holmes, sun med up the position by stating that i:E he had not seen the horse fall he could not hme believed that he had met with my accident at all. ■ Acron has gone to Auckland with Poter Swift and Lady Joan as maths.
Napliind and/Kean John were associated in a, wcrk out at Aldington this week, prior to being shipped to race at the Auckland Trotting Club's meeting. Both horses shaped well It is to he hoped that the ill luck that lias attended Napland in the past is now at. an end. and that this fine young trotter will dm able to show his best form in the north.
The mishap which occurred to the pacer Realm, while ccrapetiu* in the Beach Handicap at Aew Brighton on Saturday, has proved to be ,=o serious flint his trip to Auckland has been cancelled. He will require a few weeks' spell.
The Eowe Handicap candidate Petmvah arrived from Gisborne by the Arahura yesterday.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18888, 22 December 1924, Page 15
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