RAILWAY TRANSPORT OF RACEHORSES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18189, 23 June 1927, Page 2

RAILWAY TRANSPORT OF RACEHORSES.

NEW ZEALAND HORSES WANTED FOR AUSTRALIA.

(Special to the "Star.' ) WELLINGTON, June 22. Members of the Railway Board have been in communication with the secretary of the Wellington Racing Club and other racing people, and it is hoped that next month a conference will be arranged between trainers owners and responsible officers of the railways. At this the vexed question of rail wav transport of racehorses will be fully discussed, and the aggrieved parties will be able,to state their cases, while the representatives of the Department will have the right to explain their side. The organisation of this conference has already commenced, and as trainers and owners from all parts of the Dominion will be at Trentham , in July it is more than possible that a certain amount of good will come out of a round-the-table talk. I It is pointed out that the GovernI ment takes thousands of pounds out of race meetings when club profits are measured in hundreds, so that it is up to another Government Department, in the Railways, to help to prolong the life of such a big product of revenue. Royal Picture has made a good recovery from the foot injury which at-

fected him so adversely at. Otaki, and he is sprinting in good style on the -and track at Trentham. In point of fact he and Tresham are the only two horses at present who are doing real fast work. The majority ol the others alternate trotting and cantering on the track with work on the hills. The Randwick trainer, George Price, who arrived by the Makura, is not having a great deal of leisure. He is on the look-out for a horse to run in the

weight tor age races at m the spring, lie realises that the handsome stakes given for minor places in these races are well worth the having, and these is always the possibility of the few top notchers about meeting with trouble. Price has offered a bigprice for a much improved northern horse, but the offer was rejected, and at present he is negotiating for Football. He was out at Trentham on Tuesday, and said that the tracks there were comparable with those at Randwick. so extraordinarily bad had the Sydney weather been lately. The sand track at Trentham is stated to be a better wet weather track than any at Randnick Price leaves on the return journey for Sydney by the Tahiti on July °* Amongst the travellers experiencing the interrupted journey on the Makura is W. Kelso, jun.. son of a well-known Randwick trainer. Kelso, who is on a holiday trip to America, is foreman of his father's stable. Indian Sage and Nadarino are pottering on quietly at Trentham, and are none the worse for their efforts in June in Auckland. They are to race at Iren-