Wanganui Whispers

NZ Truth, Issue 1018, 30 May 1925, Page 14

Wanganui Whispers

:■ ' " . ■ ■"•■■." < s ■ (By "Hallowmas."} Attractive has won three times out of his. last four starts. At present it is undecided whether Attractive will go north for the Ellerslie meeting or riot. He has been allowed to drop put of his first day's engagement. A Wanganui trainer declared a few days before the Century Hurdles was run that if Dubious ever proved a good one he would give up the game. He scoffed at the idea that anything "with a nose like that" could ever be any good. Wonder what he has to say now? Rehutai looked a winner of the Farewell Hack at Wanganui on Saturday one hundred yards from the post, but she stopped very quickly. i Had Puwhero not been schooled over the big fences at Wanganui prior to the meeting he would have paid a big price m the Grandstand. The Fordell stable had three representatives at Wanganui, but they did not succeed m paying a dividend. Op Saturday, F y Tilley expected to see Padonna run a good race, and the brother to Tamatete looked a winner at one stage, but 'the soft going found him out. He may yet make good. Santiago injured himself on the. eve of. the Wanganui meeting and was therefore a non-starter. The, trouble is -not thought to be serious. Rational was backed and beaten m the Winter Oats. The Absurd gelding hung_6n the mark and was never able to get to the leaders. Gaillard was fancied by his connections and, he was m the lead for quite a while, but the mud stopped the longstridirig son of Absurd. ' ' \ Archeen , gave further eviderice of being a good 'un by the way he came, through from the straight entrance to win the Winter Oats. C. A. Davies, the midget apprentice attached to Geoi-ge Reid's stable, rode two good races on Archeen at Wanganui. He handled the son of Marble Arch like a veteran m both events. If he keeps, clear .of the rocks which beset the path of so many young riders thislad willmake a name for/himself. Lipsol went well enough m the Winter Oats at Wanganui to make it look as if it would be good business to be on. him next start. ; Some shrewd judges are picking Sari Forte to shape much better at Ellerslie than he did at Wariganui. There is every prospect of the Wanganui Trotting Club. changing its constitution to a racing club, and amalgamating with the Wanganui Jockey Club. If this scheme is carried out it will mean that the tptalisator permits now held by the Trotting Club will be retained for Wanganui. Trotting has not made the progress i,t should have done m the Wanganui district, and it is, no wonder the members of the Wariganui Trotting Club consider it almost hopeless to carry on with the heavy burden it is shouldering.- ■.. '. • "■ v -.-.r- V' '..;'{ I. , „■-'.. "• ''■•.-..<■ ■'.T.j. Griffiths, trainer of Black Art, had bad luck on his trip to Wariganui. The gelding ran off when going like a winner m the big steeplechase and then was beaten into second place m the'May;Hurdles. ; , V . Saturday; evening Griffiths got -word that his father had been badly injured m a motor smash at Gisborne; and he had to leave "Wan ganui on Sunday per motor on his way to Gisborne, as the wires were down, and. he could not find out .definitely the extent of /his father's injuriesJ' ' ; ; j; ■ ; r .' ; /\ ' .