Waikato Punters Pick Peter Maxwel

NZ Truth, Issue 1080, 12 August 1926, Page 11

Waikato Punters Pick Peter Maxwel

■ H . ■ • ■■ ■ ■ |iiiiii!i>iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|iiiiiiiiiiiiininii!iiiiiuiiii DETER MAXWELL was nibbled at * from Hamilton m the big steeples. • . ■» » Very quiet at Te Rapa! ** ' ♦ A few Pakuranga Hunt candidates are being worked. ..* * # Morrinsville has applied for September IS to race at Te Rapa. * * * Gold Rep is a maiden which should break it over the country before long. * * * Dick Hannon, with £5801, was fifth on the winning owners' list last season. ■» * * Finelli had a very lean season. The Filand sprinter has had. a good spell and should be all the better for it. The fall.she hjad- at Takapuna affected her >. seriously , last season. King Lv will be heard from m the spring. He is back to near his best form, and with a few gallops into him will keep the best busy. *♦# ■ ' Master O'Rorke }s hitting out freely. The Day Comet galloper likes the sting out of the ground. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiininiiiiiniiiiiiiii

iii|iiMiiiiiiiiiniii!iiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii|iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiii|iiiDiii!iiii "CHORPED"' OUT SEVERAL horses were sure to • lose" their chances of success when the field was as big as that which contested the Winter Cup. TN all there, were. ,l9 runners and with ■*■ the jump away it was only, to be expected that there would be a deal of bumping and squeezing. The horse that suffered most was the Trehthanv candidate, Indian Sage, which was "chopped" out at the start and was tailed off. His task from then on was, of course, an impossible one, and to get as far up as eighth was fairly good under the circumstances.

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MiiimiiH!i!iimiiniii|i)i|mmnmMiiH;iiuiuuuiimmimmii!iiiuiiii!iiumimiu\i The Catmint filly Phaola is on the tracks at Te Awamutu. The Avondale Stakes f winner should be better' this season. She has speed. " ** * - Transformer is still being trained at Te Rapa. The spell during the winter has done him good. *■ * * Quin Abbey's stock lifted £14,816 m stakes last season. This put the English horse sixth on the sires' list. -■' ' « * # . Billy McCracken, who -is showing promise as a Jumper at Ellerslie, was formerly owned and trained m the Waikato district. * # ♦ The deadlock between the Waikato Trotting Club and the A. and P. Assoetution over the conditions of the Caudelands course, still continues. A spirit of "sweet reasonableness" should heal the breach. ■;■■'• # •. #■ ■ Bright Day, who won £4685 for Steve Tapp during the latest term, will be 'ready to begin racing very Shortly. He has wintered well.