THE WANGANUI MEETING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25856, 29 May 1945, Page 7

THE WANGANUI MEETING

TEAM FROM TRENTHAM (Special) WELLINGTON, May 28. The Trentham team for the Wanganui meeting will comprise a dozen horses. Those engaged at the patriotic meeting on Saturday are Leighon’s Glory, Sheer, Susan Lee, Captain jltssc, Lord Darnley, Wineberry, Caithness, Transmitter, Star Peer, Master Baron, Voltaire, and Roman Duke. J. Garth will ride Voltaire, Master Baron, Transmitter, and Sheer. A. Midwood will be on Leigh on's Glory, K. Ford on Lord Darnley, and N. Vaughan on Star Peer and Susan Lee. Riding engagements have not been made for the others. As the use of the training tracks at Trentham is restricted at present, H. Telford sent Caithness to Wanganui some days ago. Blue Bonny went with her as a companion, but he is not engaged at the meeting. Caithness has not raced since the Manawe.tu Christmas meeting. Blue Bonny, who is filling out into a massive-bodied horse, has not raced since Easter of last year..

Wineberry, who is engaged in the Churchill Steeplechase, has not raced for four years. She is now a nine-.vear-old, and at her last start at the Auckland winter meeting in June, 1941, she won the Tamaki Steeplechase, two miles and a-half, from Conflagration and Sun Boy. Wineberry is a half-sister by Black Ronald to the flat winners Lotto and Big Money, and is trained by R. Bromby Sheer, who is to contest the Trial Handicap. will be making her first appearance in public. She is a three-vear-old filly by Inflation from Lady Elusive, and will be raced in partnership by Messrs J. M. Hastings and “M. I. Mitcliinson, Wellington. She is a member of W. J. Bromby's team.

Al-Sirat, one of the leading two-year-olds of the season, has been kept pottering about in light exercise since he last raced, and is thriving well at Trentham. He is commencing to muscle up. and looks like developing into a' powerful and commanding type of three-year-old. He will follow the same programme as his sister. Bridge Ace, did last season, and have his first start at three years in the Wellington Guineas, an event which Bridge Acre won last October. Bridge Acre has been kept in steady work, and is being prepared for the Wellington July meeting, for which she may have a pipe-opener at Awapuni next month. Since resuming work after a long spell The Monarch has been undergoing education for hurdle racing, and now that he is shedding much of the surplus condition he acquired while out in the paddock, he is putting plenty of dash into his work. He is shaping encouragingly in his schooling tasks, and may have his first race as a jumper in the hurdle event at the Manawatu winter meeting next month. H. B. Lorigan is also putting The Monarch’s brother, Voltaire, through the preliminary stages of a hurdling education, but to date he has not shown much liking for it.