RACING NOTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 240, 20 November 1940, Page 8

RACING NOTES

Beau Vite Returns. Beau Vite is returning from Australia this week after a very strenuous time at the Sydney and Melbourne meetings. He is to be spelled for a few weeks, and then recommissioned in view of the Wellington Gup to be run on January 22 Improving With Age. Son of the Soil, 6 years;;, winner of the High Weight Handicap at Rotorua, appears to be improving with age, and is galloping in fine style at Te Rapa. He is an Australian -bred gelding by Constant Sun —The Earth, and is raced by Mr O. M. Good, of Hamilton. Location Changes.. Silver Qucx, a winner at Avondale last Monday, lias now joined R. S, Bagby's team, while Rex Maitlami, who won a division race at the Auckland meeting in Otcober, is now a member of George Lindsay's Avondale stable,, Related to Solarium. Brahman, wlio ran second to Kraal at Ellcrslie on Saturday, Avas bred and is owned by Mr R. S. Hocking, of Whangarei. He is by Bulandshar and ranks as a halfbrother to the well performed Sol-* arium; Dividiend on Yogi. The highly assessed Yogi, wlio was not sufficiently forward in racing condition to compete in the New Zealand Cup contest, ran second in the principal event of the Hawke's Bay meeting. To the surprise of many present the place dividend Avas bei'ter than even money, A Promising Candidate. The Gisborne owned Etruscan has been sent down to Palmers ton North where he has joined the team presided over by George NeAV, aa t lio season by season produces his full share of winners. An Acquisition. Rulette, a full sister to The Begun*, dam of High Caste, has produced a colt foal by Bulandshar, ' Avliich is considered a splendid acquisition to the thoroughbred stock of Mr A. J. McGovern, at Te Awamutu. It Avould not be at all surprising if more than one Australian buyer make bids for the possession of the full brother in blood to High Caste, avlio although only just four years old has won in prize money over £23,000.

Nightmarch Stock. After the victory of Serenata in the New Zealand Cup it was only natural to expect that the stock of the sire Nightinarcli, would'be even more highly assessed than hitherto. This fact makes it all the more unfortunate for Miss Stewart, of Christ church, who suffered a loss last week by Coup d'Etat, by Night-> march, breaking a fetlock joint, and having to be destroyed.

Appearance Affected. The well known Hawke's Bav owner!, Mr Denis Douglas, experienced a surprise at Riccarton, when he beheld his New Zealand Cup entrant, The Ring, who had been despatched from Hastings a few days before with her splendidly groomed tail in practically perfcct order,, making her appearance on the track minus the hair and with only the stump in evidence. It appears that during the trip from Wellington in the "Waliine" an adjoining horse did a hair chewing stunt, and The Ring now has only a scraggy bobtail .

Form was Puzzling. At the Auckland Spring Meeting the Croupier (illy, Pay Roll, ran n dead heat with Nuna on the first day, and won her race on the second. She was then acclaimed the best two year old in the Dominion of the early season. At the Wellington fixture she failed in both her starts, and she. receded in the estimation of her admirers. But the filly "came again" and at, Riccarton last week she again triumphed over the opposition, and is expected to do big things at Ellerslie- in the Christmas and New Year holidays.

with her. She tested the defences —and found them wanting, and the wide spaces were again open to her. Coincidence in Colour. One inspector sat down by the roadside —his feet ached terribly and he viewed his new boots mournfully. The second inspector removed his coat and wiped his brow with a sodden handkerchief. The third made slighting reference to Strawberry's parentage and rolled a cigarette. The time was just on 2.30 and the animal was just on the point of clearing another fence —to converse further with those she considered sisters under the skin. She made the effort and that was where she remained until yesterday, when she was imprisoned in the pound by a lone farmer! The air for some time, to put it colloquially, was blue: of about the same colour as the paper on which the animal's owner will receive an invitation to attend the next sjftting of the Magistrate's Court. m • • • And why did the cow so obstinately refuse to to the right when in the borough? Because it was bred on the river side of the town and cows, fike lioming-pigeons have their instincts. The inspectors discovered that too late.