TALARO IS PLAIN BUT GOOD

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 12

TALARO IS PLAIN BUT GOOD

I He Tops The List of Money- winners I This Season

I . (By "Th c Toff.") . . /

[• The North Canterbury gelding, Talaro,- heads the list 1 of nione /■ -winners this season. ' \ ■

tYVTHIUE his followers are counting- up VY their profit, Talaro is being indulged m just sufficient work to fit him for. a few. reusing essays to top off his condition for August engage- . ments. Though just a plain, easy-going pacer, Talaro has an impediment m his gait when going slow that tripped many punters. To those not -m the know, Talaro would" be judged as lame, but it is only a characteristic. Another great pacer who possessed a similar habit when going slow was John Dillon. . . ,_ Getting back to Talaro, it is worth mentioning that he won his first race

at the "Ambeiiey Racing Club's fixturi some three years ago. Since .then he has worked his wa: into the next New Zealand -Trotting Cup, picking up many plums by th< way. \ ■ / . ■' ':.:' :; /" -J.{ ! - This season his earnings-totalled £3455, his chief victory bejng m the Auckland Trotting Clip,, m which c.vent he was steered by Maurice Holmes. . . During the past two seasons Talan has been under the supervision. '.of F Holmesi at Riccarton, and to!.this-.as-tute trainer •can be attributed jmuch o: his success, f ■ : •;-'•■ '"■ He left Riccarton for his j countrj home m April, where his bwnpr, C. E Lindsay, is getting him ready foi August contests. : •/■ A