WORK ON WINTON TRACKS

Southland Times, Issue 23436, 17 February 1938, Page 10

WORK ON WINTON TRACKS

VISITORS ON THE SCENE ROYSTON’S GOOD DISPLAY WHEN SCHOOLING (Special to The Times) WINTON, February 16. With the approach of the local club’s meeting keen interest was shown in training operations at Winton this morning. The track is in first-class condition and promises to remain so for Friday and Saturday. During the afternoon several Riverton horses arrived and were schooled. Poniard (R. McCann) was worked out over a mile in Imin 50sec. He covered the first two furlongs in 27 2-ssec and the first half in 54sec. He is to be ridden by P. Spratt in the Tradesmen’s Handicap on Friday. Glen Boa (G. Ledingham) was given a few rounds of slow pace work. The Balboa gelding is now 16 years old and is to contest the Winton Steeplechase. Gay Boa (B. W. Langford) was given slow pace work, and he' looks well. Character (B. W. Langford) was also given slow work. Jollyanna (G. Ledingham) and Pandine (J. Bromby) were given half-pace for a mile and then galloped a mile in useful time, Jollyanna finishing several lengths ahead. Jollyanna is looking particularly well and is to be ridden by C. Low in the Winton Steeplechase. Tautau Maid (G. Ledingham) was given several rounds on the plough. INTERESTING SCHOOLING Vitaphone (W. Rainbow) and Royston (C. Dent) were schooled over the sod wali and three other fences. Royston was given a good start and jumped faultlessly. Vitaphone was inclined to baulk at the sod wall, but cleared it without mishap. At the next jump he refused, but after being persevered with for some time cleared it. . At the next he again baulked and after a few attempts he struck hard and fell. The fall evidently did him good, for after being caught and remounted he jumped the last obtsacle in fine style. Glenmure (C. Dent) was schooled over the same obstacles and appeared to jump greenly but carefully. t Crusader Lad (R. McCann) was given a few rounds of slow work on the plough. The Riverton gelding is in excellent shape. Cone Peak (R. McCann) was sprinted over four furlongs in 52sec, the first two in 27sec.

Trisox (F. Hamilton) was also given a sprint over four furlongs on the plough after a round and a half of slow pace. He covered the first two furlongs in 27sec, and the journey in Two Wingatui visitors, Spanish Lad and Scotsden, arrived this evening. LUMSDEN HACK RACING CLUB REVIVAL OF ACTIVE INTEREST (By SIR MODRED). The fact that active interest in turf operations is to be revived in the Northern District of Southland by the new ly_f orm ed Lumsden Hack Racing Club with a non-totalizator meeting at which the substantial sum of £173 will be offered in prizes presents more than passing attraction to people who have delved deeply into the racing chronicles of the home province. Many years ago the Lumsden Racing Club was in existence to conduct totalizator fixtures under the control of enthusiasts like Messrs Crosbie, Loftus Jones, George Johnson, the Jones family (of which Mr W. Jones, of the Gore Trotting Club, is a descendant), M. Maley, H. Howells, and other fine sportsmen. The club eventually fell on evil times, however, but was revived as the Lumsden Hack Racing Club. The latter body held a number of excellent meetings, but as the result of financial troubles it, too, faded into oblivion. After a long term of inactivity the Lumsden Hack Racing Club was recently re-established under the direction of members of the younger generation and will presently launch an attractive programme for a fixture of its class with Mr J. S. Hazlett as president. The new club’s first prize schedule has been received with approval on all sides and one of its features is very unusual in these days when non-totalizator meetings have to struggle hard for existence. It will present two jumping events on. its card, a hurdle race and a cross-country event, both of which should fill well, tapping as they do the various districts in which the Birchwood Hunt holds sway. In other days it was difficult to reach Lumsden by rail or road, but with the advent of the motor car and with up-to-date horse floats in use tire gathering proposed has every prospect of sporting and financial success. SMART OTAGO-BRED GALLOPER ROSEMAN COMES FROM GOOD LINES (By SIR MODRED) The fact that he has won three races on end during the past fortnight, one of Riccarton and two at Wingatui, has attracted attention to the galloping ability of the four-year-old gelding Roseman. Owned and trained by D. J. McDonald the gelding was bred quite near his recent successful outings at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting and his pedigree lines distinguish him as a racehorse of excellent lineage. His sire Rosenor, who was imported from England was a son of Grosvenor (son of Cicero from a St. Simon strain) from a Ladas (Hampton-Illuminata) mare The progeny of Rosenor have been racing well recently. Roseman comes from one of the best maternal strains of Otago, as his dam, Bonnie Lake, was a sister to Lomagundi, and a half-sister to Ravenna (a good galloper and successful dam), Overdrawn and Traction (dam of Withdrawal). Bred by Mr L. C. Hazlett, Bonnie Lake was by Sunny Lake (imp., and by Sundridge from a St. Simon maternal source) from Droski, by Stepniak (Musket line) from Whirlpool, by St. George (son of Yattendon, a great sire of stayers) from Watersprite, by Traducer (imp., and one of New Zealand’s best sire of stayers) from Waterwitch, by Camden from Mermaid (imp., and one of the most successful taproot mares in the history of the New Zealand thoroughbred). With the knowledge that Roseman- has won well over a mile, combined with the fact that he is linked to.great staying families, it is not too much to expect of him that he will develop into a good open-class performer capable of winning over at least 10 furlongs. His blood lines are well worth studying and of decided interest. In the meantime racegoers will follow Roseman’s career with interest