RACING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 14

RACING NEWS.

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES

(By WHALEBONE.)

FIXTURES.

September 22, 24—Avondalf J.C. September 27, 28— Ueraldine K.C. September 20—Pakuranga Hunt Club. September 29—Hawke's Bay J.C. October 0. B—Auckland Kr.clng Clob. October 11, 13—Dunedin Jockey Club. October 0— Kurow Jockey Club. October 13—Carterton Kadng Club. October 20. 24—Waikato B.C. October 22—VVaverley Racing Club. r .. October 22—Waikato Hunt Club. October 22—Walpawa County K.C. October 22—North Canterbury R.C. October 25, 27—Poverty Bay Turf Club. October 20, 22—Wellington K.C. October 20. 22—Gore K.C. October' 27—Masterton Kaclng Club. October 27—Banks Peninsula K.C. October 31—Blrcbwood Hunt Club. November 1, 3—Dargavilla Racing Club (at Avondale). 7,.J£~C<uiterbruy J.C. Noveiiber 8. SlO-JWhangarel E.C. November 14, J6— Win ton"'Jockey Club. • Racing Club. i Novojl|*»i4*'<-.Walpapaka«ri Racing Club. KJUhoremajU it being£><>rked at To Rapa by H. S. Tierney. The Mountain Knight—Honey Belle gelding may turn out a fair jsor-t ojf a hurdler. "make $is rein the sprintrevents at the spring" meeting next ■ \ ..»" Farndon continues to show improvement with the work he is getting at To Rapa. Always, who is in the same team, is also coming to hand nicely. Berinthia has been jumping nicely in her schooling tasks over hurdles at Te Rapa. < A. Jackson, whb'f ormerly trained at Wahganui, has charge of the Mountain Knight mare, who has settled down a, lot in her ways. Lady Desmond pulled up lame after "winning the Kairanga Handicap at the Manawatu meeting, and, according to southern advices, it does not lc>k as though she will do too well in her preparation for the New Zealand Cup.

P. Scally has Branson looking nice and fresh and the Greyspear gelding has been sprinting very freely in his training work. With the going at all favourable this gelding will contest the open six-furlong race at Avondale on Monday.

Pantagruel won his hurdle race at Awapuni on Wednesday in stylish fashion, and he might be useful in this department of the game. He is a halfbrother to Warplane, and when racing on the flat showed very good form on occasions.

The Absurd—Bronze three-year-old Envoy appears to be on the improve, and although he has not done much .fast work he moved very freely in a half-mile gallop at Avondale yesterday morning. He is one of the solid-looking type that may develop into a useful sort later on.

The Psychology filly Clever will not be started at the Avondale meeting. She is suffering from an enlarged hock as the result of a kick while at the barrier at the Wanganui meeting, and although she walks quite soundly the injury will prevent her from racing for the time being.

Battle Colours has not been set any tasks against the watch during the past few days, as he has no immediate engagements ahead. It is intended to race him at the Wellington meeting next month, anjj 4 '4f he shows encouraging form his engagement in the New Zealand Cup will bfr rained out.. The Riccarton lightweight, A. H. Eastwood, has been engaged to ride him in the big eVfcntl .

Karamu Sjkm jachooled over hurdles dur*iig the Week at Ellerslie and will be a starter in the Orey Lynn Hurdle Race at the Avondale meeting on 'Monday next. He bin been doing good wprk on the flat during the last couple of weeks and looks in capital condition. It would not causa any surprise to find him running prominently in the two-mile hurdle event, which he won at l|jf*orresponding meeting twelve m<mth*ia*iy. The Te King, who is MowJ* Albert Handicap at 1 mSmls ftl 81-iiflsj next, was successful i»jjl|U winning fee race out of nine starts »tlft»t A whft» he also finished occasions. He hit out well in a three* furlong sprint on the outside of the course proper at Avondale yesterday morning and should be a possibility in a minor hack event later on.

Hoylake created a good impression by his gallop with Count Cavour on Tuesday morning at Riccarton, and bids fauto justify, expressed by his trainer, after taking the horse he would develop into a'ltayer, and that long races would suit him better tl»nstihe t was , nßked ta cover'last season. 'The' ■table horseman, C. Eastwood, will ride Hoylake in the New> Zealand Cud. '•""

..1° i ? r t 9 ,V ng "hooling bout was witnessed at Ellerslie last Thursday morning when Pompeius, Clockwork, Kyoto, Imt^KSffiL? 1 wcre sent once ardtuldover Iffi big fences, Including the hi 1 Apart from Yum Yum making « the hill the display was good, each of the contestants fencing with plenty of 1 dash and confidence. PompeW who was not bustled during the early part of the journey was giving the others a good start as they came down tho hill when he put in a run and gathered them up in good style. He was in front when the final obstacle was negotiated and his showing was a creditable one.

Owing to Rapier not being asked to execute any fast work during the past week, and to the fact that he has appeared on the track in bandages, the impression has gamed ground that all is not well with him. This is not the case, however, as there is nothing at all amiss with the Greyspear horse (states a Southern writer). Although never showing any signs of unsoundness, he has invariably worked in bandages. He has not been galloped recently, owing to his trainer's, decision not to race him under thebigi>a»eijrht *Uote#him in the six-furloris&¥alß&«§Br Asbburton, in all probability he will be given more •trenuou3 tasks in the next few days In view of 'competing at the later southern meetings; >. H. Nurse confidently expects Rapier to be in the best of order the .N«F'Zealand Cup, »n 3Wrtr.hr will be- ridden by the stable horseman, J. Campbell.

Tanagra was a good thing beaten in the concluding event at the Manawatu Hunt meeting on Wednesday.

Staghunter displayed plenty of speed in a half-mile sprint at Avondale en Thursday morning and will probably contest the President's Handicap on Monday.

Pikimai is evidently a useful jumper. He won the Lepperton Hurdles at the Taranaki Hunt meeting and on Wednesday made no race of the Hunters' Steeplechase at the Hanawatu Hunt meeting. Pikimai is by Machined, the sire of Nukumai.

Aspiring, who is among those engaged at the Ashburton meeting to-day, is by Some Boy 11. from Silver Peak, the dam of Silver Paper. Aspiring is stated to have shown a lot of speed in the Two-year-old Parade at Wingatui during the Otago Hunt meeting.

Five two-year-olds galloped a couple of furlongs in the straight at Awapuni on Wednesday. Rondelay, a chestnut colt by Limond from Tivoli, owned by Mr. W. H. Gaisford, and two owned by Mr. W. G. Stead, a chestnut gelding by Lord Quex—Sundust, and a chestnut filly by Leighton—Los Vegas, shaped very attractively.

Mountain Crag looks as though he is going to be troublesome in important jumping events next season. At the Dannevirke Hunt meeting he won the Dannevirke Hunt Club Steeplechase in good style, and in his next outing annxed the Manawatu Hunt Club Steeplechase last Wednesday. He was prominent throughout.

Two New Zealand Cup winners in Sunart and Rouen, and Omahu, who won the Wellington Steeplechase twice in succession, were competitors in jumping events at the Manawatu Hunt Club meeting on Wednesday. Omahu contested the Hunt Club Steeplechase, but never flattered his supportera, while' Sunart and Rouen ran in the Kiwitea Hurdles Sunart was backed and beaten and Rouen was always struggling. Omahu is 14 years of age, Sunart is 12, and Rouen k he y surely earned a pension by this time.

THE AVONDALE GUINEAS. The Avondale Guineas will be run on Monday, and a fairly good field should ?u t £ T the P° st - E P«o<le was beaten in the Wanganui Guineas by Consent, but if she had not been made so much use of in the early stages she would have been much harder to dispose of. The race will have done her good, and she looks in first-class condition. High Falutin* was third in the same event, and he should also be a better horse on Monday. Mithra was a useful two-year-old last season, winning two events and being placed on three other occasions out of eight starts. Last month at Rosehill she won the Juvenile Handicap, seven furlongs from a good field with 8 0 running the distance in 1.30. She should stay on all right. Gold Money annexed three races out of seven starts and was placed in another, so that he has to be considered, especially if he runs well to-day. Of the others Prodice and White Wings have the best credentials, and both are to race to-day in the Flying Handicap. Therefore a line as to the prospects of the last-mentioned trio should be gained. At time of writing, however, it looks as if Episode. Mithra and High Falutin' may carry most money. '