Turf News And Views

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 7, 16 December 1947, Page 7

Turf News And Views

An Australian Pacer At the Auckland Trotting fixture in February Australia will be represented by its glamour pacer, Dakar, who has just ended a sequence of 14 victories. In the last five wins he registered margins of over ten lengths. A Sale Ring Bargain At the 1945 National Sale one of the cheap lots was the St Boswell gelding, The Pagan, who realised only 90 guineas. So far this season he has won in stakes £1033 and is still going along merrily. The Hazlett Gold Cup It is understood that Kindergarten is to contest the Hazlett Gold Cup at Wingatui on December 27. In the meantime he is training on satisfactorily. N.Z. Oaks Winner Sweet Nymph, victor in this year’s N.Z. Oaks is essentially Englishbred. She is by Neptune from the imported Sugar Kandy by Colombo from Belle Mere, a sister to the world renowned Beau Pere, whose descendants are winning in the United States, New Zealand and Australia. For Railway Handicap The Hawke’s Bay winning sprinter Da Vinci, who has been in Australia throughout the present racing season, is to be brought back in time to enter the Auckland Railway Handicap contest in which he has been allotted 9.9. Under a Cloud

The Lang Bian representative King’s Ransom, opened the season in fine style, and was soon looked upon as a worthy contended for the New Zealand, Auckland and Wellington Cups. In October, however, following a knock on a fore-leg a splint developed. This meant a delay in a Cup preparation. At the N.Z. Cup meeting he started once for a third, and then his hock filled and he has again been stopped in his work.