AMIGO WORKING WELL

Southland Times, Issue 24027, 18 January 1940, Page 11

AMIGO WORKING WELL

Auctor To Race At Wairio

dastardly act at . MARTON Handicaps for the Tapanui meeting are due on Tuesday. To Ride Sir Beau H. N. Wiggins will ride Sir Beau in the Wellington Stakes, which will mean a few pounds over weight. Mona’s Song Mona’s Song has worked well since she arrived at Trentham and in Wellington she is being given more than an outside chance in today’s Cup race. Sound Preparation Centrepoise has come through a great preparation for his Wellington Cup engagement and he will one ot the best conditioned horses -in the field. Has Freshened Up A Wanganui report states that Amigo has freshened up and during the week he sprinted half a mile in 49 4-ssec, an excellent effort. He is to be ridden in the Telegraph Handicap today by L. J. Ellis. Duncannon The Telegraph Handicap candidate Duncannon had to have a leg treated after racing at Marton. He has recovered and there is now nothing wrong with him, but he is a possible nonstarter today. D. P. Wilson’s Team Auctor will fulfil his engagement at the Wairio meeting on Saturday, but the other members of D. P. Wilson’s team left on Tuesday morning for Trentham. Wingatui Candidate Norseman is the only Wingatui horse in the Wellington Cup. The only previous Dunedin winner of the Trentham race was Longhea (1924). Starter Appointed The Tuapeka'County Jockey Club has appointed Mr T. Marshall, of Invercragill, starter at the annual meeting on Easter Saturday. Tidal Wave The Tideacre-My Own colt which topped the yearling sales at Trentham last January, is racing in Australia as Tidal Wave. He has, as yet, not shown signs of repaying the 1450 guineas he cost his owner. Well-known Owner Enlists

Among those who enlisted for service last week was Mr F. Christie, of Hyde, the well-known owner of Nightcalm and Montessa. He has given his trainer, C. Emerson, instructions to carry on with his two horses.

£50,000 Offer for Bahram The Anglo-Irish Bloodstock Agency states that H.H. Aga Khan has refused an offer of £50,000 from a prominent English owner for Bahram. Bahram, a son of Blandford, won the Derby of 1935.

The Tapanui Meeting The nominations for the Tapanui Racing Club’s annual meeting have drawn excellent fields and, show a good increase over last year’s total. The club, however, did not release the nominations until yesterday and on Tuesday evening the committee considered the advisability of carrying on with the fixture. There appears to be no reason for pessimism and when acceptances are taken the club will receive a much better idea about the prospects for its meeting. In the meantime the nominations are quite satisfactory. A Prospect On figures, Thermidor has the best prospects of the South Island horses in the Wellington Cup, but she is usually a slow beginner, and this is likely to prove a handicap in a crowded field. She will be ridden by C. T. Wilson and will not have to put up the overweight she carried in the New: Zealand Cup. Won a Double When Vogengang won the Wellington Cup in 1894, he was saddled up again later in the day and won the Telegraph Handicap. Vogengang was then a foUr-year-old colt, and he was got by Burlington, a son of Albany, whose name occurs fairly frequently in the back of some trotting pedigrees. Riders Engaged

Additional riding engagements announced for the Wellington Racing Club’s summer meeting are as follows: P. Burgess: Sly Fox, Beau Coureur, Ruling Star, Sleevless. S. Wilson: Autolite. A. Foster: Pearl of Asia. W. J. Broughton: Kadina. C. G. Goulsbro: Du Maurier, Pekoe, Galteemore. N. Vaughan: Prediction. A. Midwood: Lady Montana, Lady Tinkle. S. Waddell: Lord Cavendish. W. J. Evans: Tooley Street. H. Long: Fils de Vaals. V. Dye: Raeburn. G. R. Tattersail: Little Dorrit. H. N. Wiggins: Sir Beau. B. H. Morris: Chary. Racehorse Slashed

A dastardly act was perpetrated during 12 and 1 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon. at Mr E. C. Haddock’s stables at the rear of the Club Hotel, Marton, when some person inflicted a severe gash of four inches in length and about an inch deep on the left side of the neck of the racehorse Air Shot. Dr R. A. Church stitched the wound and the horse is making a satisfactory recovery. The police have the matter in hand. A Story A story is told of a prominent owner and a prominent trainer who disagreed over the preparation of horses and decided to part company, remarks an exchange. A few weeks later the owner sent to the trainer a copy of a wellknown racing book, “How to Train Racehorses.” Having read the book, the trainer returned it. When the owner opened it he found that his former trainer had underlined every word of a chapter headed “Interfering Owners.” A Track Speedster

According to an Awapuni report, Disdain was responsible for the fastest six furlongs on Saturday morning, recording Imin 19sec on a soft track. If she would reproduce her track form, states the report, she would be a difficult proposition in the Telegraph Handicap at Trentham. When trained at ■Riccarton, Disdain was very seldom sent seriously against the watch, and when she won the Spring Plate at the New Zealand Cup meeting in 1938, she had very little fast work, and judging by her race form since trained in the North Island, the training tactics adopted with her at Riccarton appear to have been more suited to her.