RACING NOTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 149, 19 April 1940, Page 8

RACING NOTES

THE AUSTRALIAN DEMAND The Great Northern Champagne Stakes, winner, Night Beam, owned by Mrs W. D. Graham, of New Plymouth, has been purchased by a Sydney sportsman, at a price exceeding 2000 guineas. Mrs Graham has other two year olds in work in Night Pilot and Stratford, otherwise may not have been willing to part with the Night Raid colt, whose prize money this season totals £1290. He is engaged in the Australian Derbies next year, and will be heard of again in due course. MAJORITY TRAINING ON The New Plymouth trained Majority, who wa.s in the boom last season, more especially at the Wellington Winter meeting, where a great coup was brought off with the victories of Ned Cuttle and the Mint Leaf —Belle Star representative, is training on .splendidly, and Is expected to be on hand in plenty j of time for 1940 winter racing. CHANGE OF LOCATION The silvery chestnut Silver Quex, hitherto trained by Fred Gilchrist at Ellerslie, has now joined Hector Gray's team at Takanini. When at the top of her racing form this Lord Quex mare can gallop pretty fast, but apparently is not such a stayer as her brother Round Up. WINTER RACING It will only be a matter of a few weeks before Winter racing will again become an actuality, for the Great Northern meeting in the first week of June, is claiming the attention of both owners and trainers who have hurdle candidates or cros? country horses. A number of southern owned jumpers have been in work for some time, while most of the northern contingent will doubtless comprise candidates that have been racing during the past two months at Auckland provincial fixtures.