HE. HAS SPEED

NZ Truth, Issue 1233, 18 July 1929, Page 13

HE . HAS SPEED

Minor Event; Ahead For Arihana

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) A northern acceptor for opening day at Trentham which failed to make the trip south was Arihana. OAD the four-year-old been fit to take his place m the • field for ! the Woburn Handicap he would have come m for heavy support from punters ,up this end of the island. • Nqt without reason either, for it was realised that the distances of the hack events he competed m at the Great Northern fixture .were just a shade too far for him. ' v Yet on the middle day up north he held command for more than seven furlongs and just faded out of the money over the final pinch of the mile. Since Ellerslie he had been improvr ing m his track work at Takapuna, but after Wellington acceptance day had the misfortune to meet with a set-back owing to collision with his stable companion, Justify. r This ended the Wellington jaunt, but Arihana will still keep and show a clean pair of heels to some hack crowd over a sprint distance m the future. Earlier m his career the son of Sir Digh ton was'" .made the medium of quiet plung^i by the stable connections at Ellersliron more than one'occasion, but the^^jtance usually beat him. It vt/ not until last autumn at Avon/ *c. that he was signalled, a win/ .-. '■■•■' /* 4re he took the seven-furlong 7 r .den m 1.28 and also the Dominion of the same distance rather Comfortably with 8.12 m 1.23 3/5.