NORTHERN NOTES.

NZ Truth, Issue 852, 18 March 1922, Page 7

NORTHERN NOTES.

(By "Waimangu.")

Ohinemuri this week-end. Piaceful has been a great proposition for has owner this season.

Bute Sound broke down badly the second da j' at Te Aroha, and it will be a long time before lie races again.

Pepin is proving a big disappointment since he won at Takapuna m January.

Judging by "the way he handicapped No Surrender at Paeroa, Handicapper Wynyard has never heard of the horse. The owners of the other horses engaged would be. pleased to tell him.

Golde n Bubble ran the "mile out well m the big race the second day at Te Aroha and never looked like getting caught. In all his races this season he has been staying on. ■ , It is the general opinion that the racecourse detectives are 'either going too far or not. far enough. They have only to keep on as they are going to do themselves out of a job. ' , WHi'tianga was backed down to a ridiculously low pries m a hack cvii.l at Te Arohii. and failed to land the goods.-Whi-tianga" has never won a race, but Handicapper Wynyard asks him to give Polini a stone, at Paeroa and Polini has won a couple of r^aces this season. Thrace, one of the .-surest junipers m Auckland a season ago, can now fall with the worst, and he finds it a job to finish these - days. . . ... , Snake ran a thundering good race m the Hack Cup at. Te Aroha and has a lot more pace than most people thought. R." Hannon has only a small team battling for him this season,' but he keeps on getting the money. -■„., -\ Mumble was lucky to win the second • day at Te Aroha and had' not the leaders ran wide at the turn the grey gelding would not have been, m the first two. Raceful was badly left- In the big race the second day and he ' just cantered along behind the field. '■ ; . \ The victory of War Tank m the Hack Cup was .very popular as his owners, the Messrs. Roulston, have .been long associated, with racing but,: have not, seen their colors carried to the!fron£ for some time. Lady Patience was-:taken to the Te Aroha meeting but did- not start. She will keep.' '.-•■-.:. One of the surprises of the meeting was,; the. dbuble figure r. "dividend returned by Gold i Bud the /se'eorid; . time "'tjve" daughter of; Bunyan won.' •-",•• V , v ...... Election doesn't appear to be quite as good as his admirers think. Tireless -.'appears to be the worst of the Alison -team. Archie is enjoying a spell. His efforts this season haye not been up to expectation's. ■ .■'■-.- All' the Auckland-owned, horses wdth any pretensions to being called gallopers are m- the Easter Handicap. Tam-a-Roa isn't getting, quite as much money at the country meetings as he usually . does. Geoffrey has failed badly m most of his races this season but he looks to be coming right now. ■ Blue Cross is amongst the aspirants for hurdle race honors. For a beginner he shapes promisingly. Pavo'"ds a horse that finishes on well arid a race like the Easter Handicap may not be beyond him. Since , coming from Australia Cool Stimulants has not won a. race. Handlcapper. Wynyard. must. have thought him a Gloaming when he handed him out lOst. 101 b. at Oliii.i'eniuri. , The handicaps for the A.R.C. Easter Handicap -are due on April 3. The :'"Avondale Jockey Club is calling for applications for the position of judge, Mr. G,, Balldon having resigned. , Penona will m future be trained by J. Anderton at Morrinsville. . W. pall, who has been out of the game for . some; years, has, again taken-;- up training jit EllerBllo.>;.