COLLEGE BOY AS A STAYER

Southland Times, Issue 23502, 7 May 1938, Page 10

COLLEGE BOY AS A STAYER

Waipahi Returning To Form . DEBENTURE’S GOOD PROSPECTS Voloma and College Boy will be taken to Dunedin on Monday for the Forbury Park meeting. Good Form It is some time since Waipahi last raced but his two placed performances at Addington suggest that the Prince Pointer gelding is not far from his best. Previously he raced badly in harness, but he appears to have overcome this and is well enough placed at Oamaru today to improve on his recent efforts. Small but Game Debenture has not raced since she spread-eagled a field at Wyndham, scoring by far the most decisive win of the day. The Worthy Bond mare is engaged at Forbury and it is reported that she has done work since she last raced. Debenture is small but there are few gamer pacers racing. Providing she hits her straps smartly next week—and this she has failed to dp in previous races at Forbury—she can be expected to give a good account of herself. College Boy in Form Providing he is able to begin smartly enough College Boy will have a good chance of showing up at Forbury as he is well placed in the Renown Handicap, over two miles. Although his age is against him improving to any extent College Boy’s form, this season has been better than ever. At Riverton he showed that he was capable of running out a solid two miles. On this occasion he registered 4min 34 4-ssec (probably a record for the track) and he struck trouble on the journey and was finishing on better than anything else. College Boy is unlikely to be one of the fancied runners but he is likely to upset calculations.

A Big Task

Voloma, who has compiled a fine record in Southland this season, will be set the most difficult task of her career when she races at Forbury Park next week. In the mile race in which she is. engaged the first day there are 19 on the front mark and to this tot Voloma is asked to concede 12yds. The five-furlong Forbury track is like other trotting courses, unsuited for large fields. Voloma is an excellent beginner, but she is set a big task in having to get through such a large field over a sprint distance. Had this field been required to race in saddle

it would more than likely provide a much more interesting contest. Parisiennc’s Earnings Although only a four-year-old Parisienne has won £6401 in the three seasons she has been racing. She is at an age when most horses have their best days ahead of them but her handicap mark will restrict her activities from now on. Disappointing Although he has yet to break his maiden status Axminster continues to be backed with plenty of confidence in the north, but another defeat was registered against him on Saturday, and his supporters must feel like dropping the three-year-old now, states a Wellington writer. He did not begin too well, but, even so, did not show any promising speed in the middle stages, and was one of the first horses beaten. Axminster is a big, loose type of pacer by Ringtrue from Great Eyre, and comes from the same family as those fine trotters Great Admiral and Golden Eagle. He was responsible for a fine performance when he was beaten only by the narrowest of margins in the North Island Challenge Stakes by Horsepower, but he was then put aside until a three-year-old. However, this season he has failed to reproduce anything like the same form, and will probably be allowed to show something in keeping with his breeding before being supported with the same confidence as in the past