South Auckland Scratches

NZ Truth, Issue 1228, 13 June 1929, Page 14

South Auckland Scratches

(From "N.Z. Truth's" South Auckland , • .Rep.) ARCHANGEL was to have been a starter m jumping events at Auckland, but went amiss. •• ■ • ■ • • Wiltshire is to go south for the big jumping at Trentham and Rlccarton. * # * Pendavies was nicely keyed up for racing at the Auckland meeting, but he developed a bruised foot and could not be taken. • • • Lucy Rose is to go into retire-, ment for a few months. # • ■ # " * Prince Lv, a double winner at the Auckland meeting, will do further credit to Cambridge. The Lucullus gelding is cat-like m clearing the obstacles and he has the speed. # * # Last year Queen Arch romped home m the •Cornwall Handicap, but this time she did not threaten any danger. The mare will probably go to Trentham, where she will be worth keeping stock of as she is very well. • ' • # It looks as if the Cambridge owner, R. Hannon, will have a good sprinter next season m Takutama. , The Quin Abbey g-elding: has .been about the premises a lot lately. ♦ * * Extensive alterations and improvements are to be put m hand right away by the Te Aroha club. This will include laying down a new track along the back. • •. ■ •■ ' ' ■ ' Serious efforts are being ' made to convert The Lamb into a jumper. The Lord Multifld gelding is shaping very capably ir> his schooling at Te Aroha. ■•'■•». • ■' . • The Cambridge owner-trainer, /Tom Morris, always likes a good juniper. He has had hard luck m not being able to keep Bourn sound, but m Taumai, which he holds on lease, there is the makings of a good substitute. * * • Black Maire is being kept going at Te Aroha. The Glenalbyn gelding- was not raced at Auckland because the owner's and the handicapper's opinions did not coincide. '•• - # •.• The latest to join A. E. Cox's team at Te Aroha is a three-year-old filly, a full -sister by the Soult horse Glenalbyn to Woody Glen, which paid . his way m these climes a few seasons back. • • ,# # Indolent was' very costly by his two failures at Auckland. It is a serious drawback that he does not begin better. * * * Kingfield seems to have lost his punch. The only decent showing he made at Auckland was on the middle day. • * . ,» It looks as if Pouri will be missing from the big jumping tests of the winter. The Spalpeen gelding knocked himself severely while schooling prior to the Great Northern meeting. The damage is m one of his forelegs. . A VALUABLE building allotment m Kent Terrace, Wellington, will be auctioned on behalf of "Truth" (N.Z.) Ltd., by ,T. H. Bethune and Co., Ltd,, at their offices next ' Wednesday, at 2.30. The auctioneers or Mr. A. Dunn, Solicitor, King's Chambers, will supply particulars.