RAGING NOTES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 69, Issue 7, 2 May 1944, Page 8

RAGING NOTES

Showing a Profit The Great Legond colt, Ortello, "winner 'of the Newmarket Handicap in Australia has won £6000 in stakes since being purchased as a yearling for £50. A Speedy Ttype Lord Dink, by Dink—Lordle, run-ner-up to Black Beret at Paeroa, and winner of the Onslow Stakes at Ellersl'le, is a fine upstanding type of two year old that in due course should get further in the winning list. He is trained by Mrs E. M. Sloane, at Te Rapa, gnd owned by Messrs E. C. Foote and F. A. Kneebone. Now Improving Tweedsmuir, a winning candidate last spring, ran a good race in the Easter Handicap finishing seventh. He will be improved by the gallop, and may be fin good trim for May and June meetings. The Sydney Sales On the opening day of the Sydney Thoroughbred Sales, the top price, 2100 guineas, was realised for tlie Aijar—Only Us colt, while several other yearlings brpught 2000 guineas and oyer. A Mr Standfast colt from Wise. Lady was sold for 2000 guinea. On the second day prices advanced materially and a filly by Golden Sovereign topped the market at. 4500 guineas, the highest price ever paid in the Commomvealth for a filly.

A Winter Proposition .• Mr T. H. Lowry's Boulder Dam a winner at the. Hawke's Bay meeting, is looked upon as a good Avinter proposition, or lie can .muster up a lot of pace in thick going. By Tiderace from Symballo he is a high grade performer. For the Treasury As the result of the recent Auckland Trotting Club's one day meeting at Alexander Park the Treasury received £10,205, being the totalisator taxation on the afternoon's sport.