WINGATUI TRACK WORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27573, 15 December 1950, Page 5

WINGATUI TRACK WORK

Roving Robin Pleases

Conditions were pleasant when horses with engagements at forthcoming meetings were worked at Wingatui yesterday morning. There was very little wind, and the sun was not strong, but the tracks were hard. Eoving Robin was responsible for the best trial, running five furlongs on the plough in lmin 3sec with a big weight on his back. ««. On the outside of the course proper, where the trestles were about 60 feet out, Duvaals recorded lmin 22 3-ssec for the last six furlongs of a gallop over about a mile. Gay John ran half a mile by himself in 52 l-ssec. Gay John, who was beaten by Urbino in the Wetherstones Handicap on the first day of the Beaumont meeting, may make amends in the Stewards’ Handicap at Tapanui on Saturday. Felicitous and Social News were together over five furlongs. .They were not timed, but they did their work well. Dashing and Kind Wish took 54 2-ssec to run four furlongs. Big Time’s Fall Cherry Prince and Big Time were entering the straight in a half-mile workout when Big Time crossed his legs and came down, wrenching a shoulder. Big Time is an unraced six-year-old by Nightly. His rider. G. Branks, suffered a fractured collarbone.

On the inside grass track Kosher was given strong work, but he was galloping very short. , . . Brutus was let off with a round at half pace, and Arctotis, who staged the runaway act at Beaumont, was jogged quietly over a circuit. Great Victory did a round at threequarter pace. On the Plough Eovlng Robin, carrying about 11 stone, ran five furlongs on the plough in lmin 3sec. When this four-year-old son of Christopher Wren and Lake Mist races up to his track work, he should win a number of sprints. All Hurry did the last half mile of a circuit in 50sec. _ Continual, after doing a fast first two furlongs, left half a mile behind in 52sec. Another member of F. Shaw’s team, a Finis—Palantua youngster, covered three furlongs on the outside of the plough in 37 4-ssec. This three-year-old is a halfbrother to Peel Tower, Fine Night and Jamell. , Jamell was allowed to jog two circuits of the track. Whakawhatea Schooled The nine-year-old Siegfried gelding Whakawhatea was given some schooling work, but he did not jump cleanly, hesitating before each obstacle. In the back straight he unseated his rider as he scrambled over one fence. Tapanui Riding Engagements Riding engagements for the Tapanui meeting include: —A. N. Didham—Gay John, Highthorne, Bobby Dazzler; M. R. Soper, Addition. Redlo; J. Soper, Sylvan, Relampago; W. F. Ellis, String Band; K. J. Hollamby, Emerald Chief.