BARLEY ALMOND’S NEW QUARTERS

Southland Times, Issue 23544, 25 June 1938, Page 10

BARLEY ALMOND’S NEW QUARTERS

Pink Bond Resumes

Training

SIGNALLER NOT LIKELY TO RACE AGAIN

In spite of a penalty for his success at Greymouth, Swordstick can be expected to race prominently at Ashburton today. Out of Action

Signaller has been turned out and it is unlikely that he will race again. He proved a good winner on the flat and over hcurdles and but for unsoundness would have made a name for himself as a jumper.

Wingatui Stables Sold The stables at Wingatui so long presided over by Mr C. Gieseler have been sold to G. A. McKay, and the latter s team will be quartered there in future. First Appearance

Royal Refrain, a half-brother by Lord Warden to Last Refrain, will race for the first time at Ashburton today. He is described as a good type of four-year-old trained by F. C. Pratt at Oran. Ineligible

Valantua, who has been entered for the Trial Plate at the Wellington meeting, is ineligible, as he won £52, or £2 above the limit allowed, when he won the Crown Stakes at the Otautau meeting in April. On Holiday

The Invercargill trainer, F. W. Ellis, has no horses in active work at present, and intends leaving next week for a short holiday in Oamaru. N.Z. Cup in View

Trebleack is getting through useful tasks at Invercargill headquarters and it is proposed to have him in forward order for spring racing, with the New Zealand Cup in view. The Woodend gelding put on a good amount of condition during his enforced spell. Black Banner’s Progress

It is reported that Black Banner and Bally Brit have done well under P. Boyle at Riverton since the Dunedin meeting and the pair will be raced at the Grand National meeting, as well as at Washdyke and other meetings.. It not definitely known whether Quinopal will be taken north, but all three have been nominated for the Grand National Steeplechase. Hunting Recruit

Grey Seal has been kept up to his work by R. E. McLellan and he has been a follower at a number of recent hunt fixtures. He has shaped well in the jumping he has done and is one likely to make a success of this department, although not a great deal will be asked of him this season.

In Light Work , Wynwood has been kept in light work by J. Gray and the Woodend gelding has been thriving on this preparation. Although he was not raced at the Dimedin meeting there was nothing amiss with him, but his owner was not satisfied with the weight given him. He will, be kept going with a view to racing A early spring fixtures. Smart Filly

Pink Bond is back in T. E. Pankhurst’s charge. The Pink Coat filly, who is now rising three years, has furnished a good deal since she last raced. She displayed great speed in her races as a two-year-old and her time of 48 4-ssec put up in the spring stands as a Wingatui track record for half a mile. In Favour

Although he was an acceptor for the final day of the Dunedin meeting, Strip did not start and some interest will be shown in his appearance at Ashburton today. At Easter he beat Lady Leigh at Riccarton and in view of the latter’s subsequent performances, there is good reason to respect Strip’s chance in his next appearance.

Winter Quarters G. Fielding, who has Last Link engaged in the hurdle race at Ashburton today, has also taken Great Pal north with him and will again make Orari his headquarters during the next few weeks. John Charles Lame

Though John Charles put in a couple of faulty jumps in the June Steeplechase at Hastings last Saturday he won the race very easily. Unfortunately he was lame on returning to the enclosure, and he may be added to the already long list of doubtful starters for the remainder of the jumping season.

Barley Almond’s Transfer Barley Almond did not return to Southland after the Dunedin winter meeting and she is now being trained at Palmerston North, where her owner resides. Early in her career Barley Almond promised to make a name for herself over middle distances, but has so far failed to live up to these expectations and is still eligible for hack company. J. A. Rowland, who won a race with her at Riverton at Easter and has trained her since that meeting, expressed the opinion to the writer that the Lackham mare had been over-rated.

Half-brother to Grey Honour Grey Night, a rising two-year-old half-brother, by Nightly, to Grey Honour, in D. E. Cotton’s stable at Riccarton, is one of the many promising youngsters handled this winter. He is reported to compare favourably with any of the others of his age at Riccarton. To Join F. Shaw’s Stable

Lord Hawke, it is reported, has been secured by a lady owner, and will in future be trained at Wingatui by F. Shaw. The Winning Hit gelding accompanied his full-brother, Second Innings, from Marlborough to the Dunedin meeting, and finished fourth on his last appearance. He will be taken over by Shaw at the Ashburton meeting today. Sister to Phar Lap Nea Lap, a sister to Phar Lap, and who was purchased and taken to England by Mr H. E. Morriss, owner of the Derby winner Manna and of Pasch, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas, is stated to be in foal to the Solario sire Tai-Yang, who was unbeaten on the racecourse. Nea Lap is to be mated next season with a son of Blandford, probably Bahram, or the French champion Brantome. Nea Lap was sold to a member of the Whitney family, of New York, but it is possible that she was resold to England. Manna and TaiYang are both at the Banstead Manor Stud, Newmarket Kinnoull Sound Again

Kinnoull, which won two of his three races this season, had to be eased up

on the eve of the Great Easter meeting through a foreleg filling. Unsoundness has always been the trouble with this smart galloper, but he looks sound enough now and is thriving on the road work being allotted him daily, states a Christchurch writer. Though he has put on condition, he is in excellent order. Present intentions are to keep on hacking him about and then give him a preparation for early spring meetings. •