Some Lively Training Times Noted on Track By "Cumo"
Racing on the Shanghai track is to start again next Saturday, when the Shanghai Paper Hunt Club will be holding the first day of their annual race meeting, to be followed on the following Saturday by another afternoon's full racing, With these two days' racing in view, some of the ponies have lately been doing good training gallops. One of the best was done by Mou Tan Hua in the company of King of Kings, they doing 1% mile in 248.1, last mile 2.124, last *4 mile 1,371, last half 103.1, and last quarter 31, both finishing well, The track was fast, with the wind helping them down the home straight, but time as well as style was there, Night Express put up a fast mile, doing it in 200, but the time was made in the first half of the gallop, the last quarter taking 33 3/5 to do. French Leave, with John Spark in the saddle, went well for his mile doing it in 2.13, last % mile 1374, last half 1,03, and last quarter 80, If the stable decide to start him in his next Saturday's event he will be one to watch, His stable mate, Early School owner up, want a similar distance in 2.15.2 last quarter 322.
Corps Cavalry may have gone 1% mile but I only timed the last mile of his gallop, making it 2.13.2, Anishing well with the final quarter in 30,3, Spark took out Whiskey Tan-san for a training gallop of one mile, doing it in 2.13.3, t half 1,024 finishing strong; full of running. This handsome "Z" d weight out next Sati initial attempt in which case, unless Mylady can lower his colours—he should win, Belvedere and Evesham are both going well The former will be started in Saturday's handicap for 1037 griffins, and when my notes in the *North-China Daily News" appear next Saturday morning, giving forecasts for the afternoon's possible winners, I shall expect to mention him among my likely half dozen to follow during the afternoon, Duke of Kent is fit and going well. He did a useful training gallop of 1% mile in 3381, last half 1.03.1, last quarter 30.1, 1938 Griffins There are some seventy new griffins taking exercise daily on the training track, most of them have been taken up by the different stables, There are, however, a few unsold in the dealers' hands, Prospects for the griffin racing this spring look satisfactory, despite the small quantity imported during the last six months, Some look like class ponies, and I do not think it will be long before I shall have some good and interesting training work to report.
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