NOTES FROM THE NORTH

NZ Truth, Issue 1147, 24 November 1927, Page 12

NOTES FROM THE NORTH

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) TOM THUMB and Quickflre were a •*• pair of acceptors missing from Otahuhu. Lack of boat accommodation was given as the reason of their absence. # - # * Moira Moko's exhibition last Saturday, did not please the stipes. May< develop into a reasonable trotter m time, for she seems to have the right action. #. * # Bright Light is a bit carty m front, but will win despite last Saturday's defeat. Was displaying the true gait when too late. » » » Peter Tracey will get a mug trotters' race m the future. # * * Gold Star is just now looking at his best, though he mixed it too early on Saturday to have any show. He will stay on better than most of the moderates, but is not first class. «• # # ' Solidity is solid m name only, as yet. # # * When Roez streaked away with a big lead m the Introductory the others seemed content to battle for second div. only. # % * * Anseline certainly goes true, but is giving a lot away m the "mug" class. # # # Great Change was not produced first day of Otahuhu. A lot is expected from this chap. #'( * # Padlock won the, Mangere like the good horse he is,' but * the fact that there were 21 starting off m front of him kept the public from supporting the son of Hal Zolock. However, the connections got their share of the double-figure dividend. He is a bit unsound, but will go further at prizetaking. ' # * * Jean McElwyn is a bit on the small side to ever make really good, but will probably win a few races. *% • # # Red Star had been so long doing it that he was entitled to return ■> the big price he did for second m the ( Mangere. Some of these pacers come solid with age. Gold Circle went well enough m the Mangere to be looked for at the smalls. # # Dillon Huon will do the trick any day for the Corrigan party, but those big fields at" Alexandra Park are troublesome. # * # Hohoro will do better than on Saturday last. She is on the right mark. # * # * A horse has to be good to plug through 21 horses on a trotting track and win m a jog. Padlock did it. # # Concertina may do the trick for H. Long. The Hal Zolock mare was up fourth m a big field last Saturday. # # # Golden Grattan must be due shortly. Her youthful trainer has her looking somewhere near her best, # * # Beatty is liable to come home m front when the punters sicken a bit of her. # # * J. T. Paul has Typist about her best. # # # Tony Victor's displays are notso far in* accord with last season's promise, but look out when he strikes form. # # & It took all "Togo" Lee's whirlwind efforts to get Florent home first by a head from Amaris m the Onehunga, but the price returned was worth all the laugh the public had over "Togo's" amusing exhibition of arm-swinging. # # # Gold Jacket once again improved his time without getting better than third on opening day. He went consistently throughout. 9 "7? fl* Woodvale looked a certainty out m front the last trip of the Onehunga, but drifted back to fourth when the real pinch came. # . * * Uncle Bert did not appear to like the pressure being applied on the hard track last Saturday. He was certainly going great when too late m the ' saddle event, but maybe it was only his condition staying on better than the pair m front. Be with him when it is soft. # • • There was nothing brilliant about the victory of Sister Beatrice. Had .Tradesman gone true throughout he would have won.