FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 July 1933, Page 11

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

OMEO IN EXCELLENT ORDER TAVERN KNIGHTS PROSPECTS. AMYRIL IS PROMISING. (By “Hurry On.”) Aucklanders will have money on Tavern Knight at Trentham on Saturday. Despite his name Takanini followers have no doubts about him coming home in time. Two Smart Hacks. ( ' When two hacks clear out from the rest of the field over the concluding stages of a race it is nearly always that they are well above the average. Amyril and Pladie were ahead of the others at the conclusion of the Woburn Hack Handicap at Trentham on Tuesday. As the field was quite a good one this pair may prove worth following during the meeting. Working Well. King March is showing improved form on the track at Ellerslie and has been responsible for some smart gallops since racing at the Great Northern meeting. He* has been weighted at 9.0 in the July Handicap at the special relief meeting on Saturday week, and if he continues io go the right way in the interval he will receive good support. However, he was a rather expensive proposition at the Sydney meetings this time last year-, when after doing some • great trials he failed with the colours ■‘up. Smart Galloper. The end to end win scored by Amyril tn the Woburn Hack Handicap at Trentham on Tuesday will draw attention to the chances of Headmistress in the Trial Plate to-day as the latter has been doing better on the New Plymouth track than yesterday’s winner and is certainly a more determined finisher. The straight six furlongs will give her every chance to find her feet as she does not begin very smartly. The easy manner in which she settled Rapper over the final furlong at Opunake last March stamped the daughter of Chief Ruler as a smart galloper, k Back in Action Again.

The lifting of the disqualification on Croupier by the executive of the Racing Conference on Monday will .meet with the approbation of all racing enthusiasts who do not like seeing a good horse kept in enforced idleness. This son of Surveyor was a brilliant three-year-old, winning among other races the Wanganui Guineas and the ’ Harcourt Gold Cup. It will be remembered that he was sensationally seizing as he came out from'the bird-cage after contesting the Stead Memorial Gold Cup at'Riccarton in November, 1931. Croupier has been in light training for some time and should be in good order for a preparation for the .big spring events. It will certainly be interesting to see how his long Spell has. affected him as it was reported that he had become a little thick in the wind. ' Change of Riders Fails.

The substitution of L. Dulicu on Paddon in place of his usual pilot, W. Rennie, in the Trentham Hurdles on Tuesday does not appear to have been a success. The big Archieston gelding did not give his usual display of fast, clean fencing and was nearly down at the last hurdle. Rennie piloted High Grader to victory in the hack event earlier in the day, and from the manner in which that son of Lord Quex made the opposition look cheap the Auckland horseman will soon be saluting the judge again. Despite the fact that High Grader had top weight he took the lead soon after the start and, carrying the field along all the way, won with a lot in hand.' He looks like one of the most promising young hurdlers seen out for some time. . Omeo’s Win. . - Mr. A. Lile returned home yesterday from Trentham, where he witnessed his horse Omeo’s win in the Wellington Steeplechase on Tuesday. He stated that Omeo gave a wonderful exhibition ofv jumping, quite the best in the race. He was especially pleased at the fine reception that Omeo was given, seeing that he was one of the outsiders of the field. Mr. Lile considers that his horse has never been better than he is at 'present, and is carrying more condition than he has ever done formerly. He came through his race in splendid style and all going well will take his place in the fled for the July Steeplechase on Saturday. Mr. Lile paid a tribute to his trainer, L. Knapp, for the splendid order in whic-i he turned his charge out, and to A. Jenkins, the jockey, who rode admirably., ' , Not Profitable.

G. Jones and his team of 12 New Zealand horses belonging to Mr. W. Kemball left Brisbane on their return trip to Melbourne by the Manunda on July 1, states an Australian writer. The Brisbane venture proved disastrous in several ways, and they returned south without having won a race. Mr. Kemball s team includes Greenhorn, Foghorn, Staghorn, Golden Hom, Gay Song, Melisande and - ; six yearlings. Greenhorn lost all form in Brisbane; Staghorn, after a promising effort in two-year-old company, suffered a foot injury that put him out of action temporarily, and Golden Hom was unable to race because of a leg injury. Gay Song was in places a couple of times, but looked a tired horse, and Foghorn was just beginning to strike form at the end of the trip, as she demonstrated by a third in a mile and a-quarter handicap at Ascot at her last start. When he gets back Melbourne, Jones intends putting Foghorn to hurdling. Greenhorn, Staghorn and Gay Song will all be spelled in Melbourne, and Jones intends again putting Chief Mark into work there. In addition, he will have his hands full with the rising two-year-olds, who have been just pottered about in Brisbane owing to the hardness of the tracks. Before Mr. Kemball returned to Melbourne last week, ahead of the team, he declared that he would be in Brisbane again next winter, for the carnival meetings. This js the first reverse u he has had with his team since he brought them,to Australia. In Melbourne he won 22 races inside a year.