Trotting

NZ Truth, Issue 882, 21 October 1922, Page 12

Trotting

(By "THE TOFF.") Auckland arid Greymouth to-day. Oamaru on Monday. Alto Chimes at Auckland. Reta I^efor is much better, for her, race at the Benefit Meeting, where she got.- a lot of dust m her throat and eyes. - ■•,---

Follo^ Osier Beauty. Taraire should be home and dried at Oamaru. Bonny Logan -will go round the Greymoutli track like a kid round a house with his old man after him./ Always, be a bit with Tomkinson. He has the goods. Acron's pretty good. Ahuriri. — It's easy money. ' Aeriel Bingen a race for sure. Lenglen can go a mile. Lady Dunmore scarcely touches the ground. She is a hot miler. Melisando reads well over a mile at Greymouth. De Why is going like a train. Must be hard at Auckland. Blaid Audubon 'has a good bit up tiis bleeve yet. Ocean Spray is a good sort of a mare and one that should hold her own on the Coast. Sparklight will be m his top gear at Greymouth. He's a bit better .than the average. Pearl Coronado has a reputation sufficiently good to win two or three races. Wakefleld is tho hop© of the Coast. They will all be on him. Alpha Wilkes should only have to jog to beat the unhoppled trotters on Monday. \ Great Applause can trot very fast. He is & half-brother to. Beta Peter. Zolock Palm will keep the Coasters scratching at Greymouth, Lady Audubon can fly for a mile, and then sets the stitch. Wild Pointer will not pay much at Greymouth. She has started a couple of times. : Moneymaker is better than he has ever been m his life. Blue Mountain King threatens to return to his best form. ; Pitaroa will effect a surprise shortly. Olive Huon has furnished out into Ja good sort of a mare. * She will pick up another race or two. Pessimist is being treated to mixed tasks. Sometimes he works as if he would never do wrong, but on race days he's a handful. He can go it when he likes. Colenut is hitting out at Brighton as if he would win a Cup. Pity he. does not repeat his work on the day. Plywood is being tried at the trotting game. . He is bad on turns. Sherwood is big ■ and well. He has never looked better. Trix Pointer is working 'on satisfactorily. .. . ■ - '. y Red Heather is standing up to his work like a toff. Last week he reeled off a mile and a. half sufficiently well to say that he is not a back number. Asturio is coming to hand nicely. He seems to be gathering sense with, age. Auguste Dillon now resembles a racehorse. -And can't he go! Tatsy Dillon is m rare buckle and bears evidence of .hitting- the track at the top of her form on Cup day. Dandy Rose has furnished into a •fine mare, and should: do her owner further good service. Vice Admiral has freshened up wonderfully, but, even so, it is difficult' to see him as good as he was last year. There are yet three weeks to go. Time will tell. Fred Jones says that General Link is apples and peanuts. Couldn't be better. Fred knows. . Gold Boy and Moneymaker are tickling the punters to bits. Both the Aucklanders are working well. Albert Ching is doing Al at Oamaru. Last week he came into favor for the Cup. Realm has thrown off his cold and is now as good as anyone could wish' at this stage of the proceedings. Willie Lincoln has joined, Albert Hendricksbn's team at Templeton. Hal Junr. Is looking splendid. Whatever he leaves the mark m will be just like shutting tiie gate. "' : Bismurate is pretty useful m either saddle or harness. N The Scottish trainer, D ; Kerr, has acquired Mr > S. Gallacher's', property at Spreydon, and intends setting up as a public trainer. His English record is particularly good. Cochet (2.1G) arrived from Sydney last week and joined W. J. Tomkinson's team. i George Graf ton is going well m saddle, and should be al home over a mile arid- a quartdr. . Tobermory has come on a lot. Might win a, race very shortly. First Fashion seems all right again. P6dro Pronto ha 3 don© well this past couple of weeks. He is now being worked with a hood on. Peter Timmermait is still teaflnr rouhd the Addington track. He Is a great old battler. ' Elite looks a ball of muscle. It- is alleged he -can go two .miles.' 1 For mine, -one mile. A very useful maiden is King Dillon, who made his debut at Wanganui" m February last.' .Hoirieleigh Dick' is' trptting m approved style. He. should soon pick up a s,take. Partner is m great health, and is carrying more condition than usual. He should come up fit and well. . A special passenger train will leave Christchurch for Oamaru on Monday at 7iß a.m. . It- will 'leave i Oamaru on the" return" journey "at 7.'ff"p.m.' "• / ( _. B. Jarden is working a promising full brother to Birdwood. Looks the: pick -of th'e family. ( . .. .... ■ . Idris broke down again last week:' A bad proposition this. .

R. Pollock was at Addington last week with that aristcratic youngster La Fayette. Gleaming is being indulged m swimming exercise. He may not be ready for the Cup, but may compete m the sprint events. Veterinary advice is that a ligament has been strained. Onyx has thrown off her soreness and is once again stepping along m good style. . Dillonshine is now a stablemate of Bundaberg and Duniiiinong. Our Goldie is stepping along m her work m a fashion that suggests home sweet home when the colors are flying m November. Percy Dillon has gone into B. Jarden's stable. ; The Manawatu Trotting Club has altered the date for its annual meeting. The club has now decided to race on January 17. Ma Cushla is shaping terribly well m saddle. She has speed to burn and should find no difficulty m picking up a short race. Driver Jimmy Bryce, junior,, who is at present on a visit to Sydney, had to submit to the übiquitous interviewer. He states that he was Impressed with the speed and stamina shown by the free-legged pacing stallion Dixie's Chance. Jack Reid a Osiris was -the image of Whisht, onp of the best trotters m New Zealand. He is of the opinion that there- are trotting tracks m New Zealand faster than the Victoria Park and Epping trades. He would have liked to have ridden or driven m a race bo as to have been better able to judge of .the going. Young Bryce took to Sydney Don Durfee and the mare Law Chimes, also Logan's Gift, & daughter of Logan Pointer, for Mr R. , C. Simpson, and a young pacing .gelding, Simple Peter, by Wliawood Junior— The Maid. Don Durfee, after winning the Brisbane Thousand 1921, was sent to New Zealand to Bryce, but he failed to show the - form expected. Probably the change of climate affected hiKJ^.^^.^ u_^_««_—