News and Notes

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 10

News and Notes

Fleet Meeting. * * * # '. 5 - • Trentham to-day. * * # . t Puwhero will be hard. *.■ * * Nukumai was consistent. * # # First Line wins m a canter. * * * McCarten rides his first winner. * * * Birkenella liked the Riccarton country. ' # - # ■ * . Tuki should not have run off on Saturday last. ** * - The easing up of Boomerday finished his chance. * * * Bathelor Gay 'was the comer at the National Meeting. * * * Ethiopian was sold after the final day at Riccarton. 1 * * * Maunga must like falling, m the Sydenham Hurdles. *.. * # Passin' Through ran one good race at the National. He seems to have had enough.

Credit, <by Paper Money — Formless, is a nice two-year-old. I * * * Boadicea should not take long to get on the' winning list. * # * White Comet missed the Winter Gup but on Saturday he won easily. >;*■ # ■ # Bonecto was a big disappointment at the National meeting. c * « Tinokaha, the way he runs about at his fences, is a menace m a race.

The running of Many Colours at the National was not right. He was suffering from a greasy heel. ■: #■ - * * For about two and a-half miles Kipling went a great race m the Lincoln Steeples on Saturday last. # * # The suspension of Roy Reed for three months for alleged crossing was a thunderbolt to those who witnessed the race. # • • At the end of a mile and threequarters Te Kawa has had enough,

but up to that stage he can travel like a train. * # * Tenterfield is all right till he bangs a fence and he then turns it up. He is a rog-ue of rogues, and punters should forget him. * # * Hall Mark found a new owner before National week was out, and he will m future be trained by J. A. Rowlands at Invercargill. # ■ # * The country at Riccarton had the wind up Uncle Bob who fell at each start at the National meeting. Cutls' fence got him twice. # * * The half-brother to Pluto, by Absurd, who is trained at Rluoarton, is a bold sort of galloper who will win races. *= # *. Blue Hall who has a partiality for Riccarton is .now trained at that course, having; been sold during the National week to J. B. Pearson. # <!> * . ■ R. J. Mackie who was to have ridden at the National meeting, took ill prior to the fixture and had to take to bed. * « * Charlatan who fell early m the National Steeples, will now be given a spell. He will not like Riccarton m future. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx