CAP & JACKET

Observer, Volume XXXIX, Issue 43, 28 June 1919, Page 14

CAP & JACKET

[By the Early Bibd.]

The present is the dead season, and very little is doing among the trotting folk. Most of the teams hare gone into winter quarters.

Steel Bell, Coal Light, and Queen Pirate are enjoying the rest cure at Epsom, while J. Lynch is handling some young ones.

J. Fisher has Lady Burlington and Flora Dillon in splendid winter condition. The pacing mares should be at their best next season.

Cunningham has nine pacers and trotters all wintering well, the actives of the team being a couple of maiden candidates, Prize Pearl and Rud Pere.

This trainer may not make the trip to the Gisborne T-C. Meeting, as it may clash with the Waikato Hunt Club, where he has two horses engaged.

The well-preserved trotter Kirikiriroa, is doing light work in a milk dandy, which may do the old fellow good by keeping him clean in the wind.

The other string in Kelsey's stable, Kempsey, is ridden about the roads by that expert lady, Mrs Kelsey. The Australian gelding is doing well.

A. Brown brought Harold Junior and Quadrant back from the South after an absence of five months— where he paid over expenses.

A. Brown left Shanghai behind in the South, having leased the pacer to a Southern sportsman. He also purchased Red Star, a pacing gelding.

Octrochora, a full sister to Harold Junior and Co. This neat little pacing filly is being educated into the mysteries of the hopples, but is still very backward, although is proving an apt pupil.

Jack O' Diamonds and Gold Rod, who hail from Jimmy Paull, Royal Oak stables, Onehunga, are doing light work on the Epsom tracks, and are looking well.

The Poverty Bay Trotting Club open their winter meeting to-day. The Auckland trio Mintsom, Belle Prize, Pearl, and Rud Pere accepted at the meeting.

Mr Arthur Shepherd recently sold a three-year-old filly by Gold BellPrincess Ena to a Gisborne trotting sportsman at 200gns.

It was Mr Shepherd's intention to be present at the Poverty Bay Trotting Club Meeting to see the filly End Bell run in the Maiden Handicap.

Mr Shepherd has a fine sturdy full brother to End Bell

W. Orange ? who had his arm broken while driving in the South last month, through Alf. McKinney coming down, is doing as well as can be expected.

Japson is hard at work assisting A. Julian with his pacing and galloping teams. On Saturday morning All Talk negotiated the big battens proficiently.

Mr Joe Gee, one of the best supporters of the light harness horses, has left for a trip to England, and turned out Amberite, the trotting gelding.

Miss Murphy has been submitted to auction twice during the past fortnight at the Haymarket, but 32 guineas was the best offer. The mare was taken home again,

Mr D. B. Smith purchased a halfsister to the pacing mare Ngatira at the Haymarket last Friday at a cost of 25 guineas. Garf Robertson is pattering about with a young Gold Bell juvenile, which is still at a preparatory stage. Lady Nettling, the pacing mare, is keeping herself healthy by useful road work, handled by the owner. Next Saturday the Waikato Hunt Club Meeting will be in full blast, and judging by the class of cattle engaged and the number of acceptances the success of the meeting is assured. The horses engaged at the W.H.C. fixture are being kept well up to the collar during the week at Ellerslie The following were noticed. All Talk and Munster were schooled over the battens by Erickson. Both horses gave a clean display of hurdle lepping. Blue Black was smarter than Forward Lady in a sprinting match on the sand rink. The gelding Glucian also sprinted on the same rink. Comedy Prince,.who is in splendid racing fettle, defeated Lady Energy over a fast run half-mile. Independence covered the same ground pleasingly. Hinemaru had all the best of Canzonet over a fairly fast run, five furlongs, on the sand. Swastica, who is engaged in the lepping event at Hamilton, is in splendid condition, and should run forward. The Napier Park Racing Club Meeting was run last week, and was quite the success anticipated. Good racing and speculation. Foeman won the Napier and Park Steeplechases in fine style. Movement was quite equal to downing the opposition in the Moteo Hurdles on the opening day and the Waihiki Hurdles on Saturday. Ohinewairua, who- showed good form at the Auckland Winter fixture, captured the Stewards' Handicap and ran into place money on Saturday. It was also pleasing to chronicle a win for the Te Aroha sportsman, Mr H. Keesing with his gelding Gold Kip, who annexed the Winter Oats Handicap. The totalisator at the Napier Park R. C. handled £44,740 at the meeting, being a substantial increase over last year's turnoverWaikura has been qualified as a hunter, and sent back to Frank Weston's care at Ellerslie. The horse has gone back in his condition, and will require months to put him well again. The 'chaser Waimai is being ridden in his work by the trainer Henderson. The son of Spalpeen may be given a run at the Wellington R.C. Meeting. La Blanche, entered for the Maiden Hunters' Steeplechase at the Waikato meeting, was popped over the big battens on Saturday by Keepa, the stable pilot.

Troublesome is nicely strung up, and will take some beating when next stepped out in public. The late racing has done the gelding good.

Loloma's first foal (a colt) has started to build up since going into J. E. Thorpe's care. "When brought from the country the chestnut was dog poor.

La Blanche, after jumping the hurdles on Saturday, joined No Surrender and Pablo in a sand circuit. The big chestnut is a hard puller.

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