ELLERTON HALL WILL RACE AT HASTINGS ON SATURDAY

Chronicle (Levin), 13 August 1947, Page 7

ELLERTON HALL WILL RACE AT HASTINGS ON SATURDAY

Awapuni stables were "be represented at Hastings and at Riccarton on Saturday. Ellerton Hall, winner of tlie Russell Memorial Steeples last Saturday, was entered for Riccarton, but he is going to race at Hastings and M. Andrews will ride Mai. Rider for Playtos and Afton Water W. E. Pine will return to Riccarton for -the third day. He has Playtos and Afton Water, engaged and W. J. Broughton .will ride them. Playtos started the hrst "day and ran a really good raee; hnishing just behind the placed horses. Afton, Water raced last Saturday when the plaeed horses in the Woolston Handicap were Ganjah, Coral Arc*e and ^Afton Water. Blanket, which started favourite in the Gloucester Cup, was to have returued from Riccarton yesterday. injured Jockeys Return to Active List Back in the saddle were A. G. Waddeli and W. L. Aitken. Waddell was injured when Dualiu fell with him at Trentham, and Aitken reeeived his- injuries at the Manawatu winter meeting. J t should not be long before both are sporting silk again. Oue of 'Bubs' Waddell 's mounts yesterday was Ellerton Hall, who was pulling hard. YESTERDAY' S TRACK WORK AT AWAPUNI The traek work at Awapuni yesterday was interesting, but there were few seiious tria'ls. All fast work was done on the. trial grass and the going was 110 1 fas't. The Lang fiian gelding from J. J. Waller's stable was oue of the first to go fast after the breakfast interval. xie was going well when recording 15 over tliree. Soon after that, Eastern Rose (F. Cleaver) and Seawyn (R. Urwin) were given a ' ' pipe-opener" over half a mile. They were travellin'g when tliey passed the four, and they covered the last tliree together in il to coniplete iheir task in 5i 1-5. Theiolyn, looking a picture of health, and Thimble were out being exercised. Reveller (D. Amey) covered live in 1.15 after taking 32 for the first two fur-

longs and 19 for the iirst. Ellerton Hall (A. G. Waddell) worked once round and was timed to rub home from tlie iive in 1.14. He looked to be lione the worse for the race he had at Hastings. Eluctuation (S. Waddell) sprinted ihree in 41, aiid Ivahuraponga (J. Garth) aiid Myfox (S. Waddell) were 011 terms and going nicely at the end of three cut out in 40-2-5^ General Saleve (Garth) worked over severn in 1.40 2-5 and did well to cover the last live in 1.13 3-5. JMatawene worked kindly over a mile. There was |)lenty of pace on but she was not timed. Commercial (G. R. Tattersall) worked well over live in 1.13 2-5, the last three in 43 4-5. Timsah (Tattersall) and Mctcorina (Grav) were together at the end of half a mile run in 55, the last three in 41 2-5. Spanish Fleet (D. Gollins), which has done well in poiut-to-poiuts, was g'iven a round over the steeplechase fences out in the ovai, jumping well with plentv of pace on. The Tiderace — N'alsheen lilly in W. M. Piue's stable has been named Blue Danube. STILL GOING STRONG The veterau "Eree" Holmes, who won the Grand 1 National Hurdles ob Libcrator in 1804, saddled Spanish IMain for this year's Grand X'ational Bteepleehase. GALLOPS AT ELLERSLIE Broiealice and the maiden Talybont were responsible for the fastest sprints at Ellerslie on Saturday, when the No. 3 grass was used for galloping and the going was very heavy. Alallee also went nicely when she jumped away in front and led Good Bay and Phoenix over six furlongs. WENT WELL AT TAKANINI The maidens Quick Mareh and Yetan did the best half-iuile at Takanini on Saturday. Grand Tourist, Peter Gregor and Beaute were seen to advautage over live furlongs, and Cambria went particuhirly well over six furlongs. There was a heavy frost and galloping was done on the outside grass, which cut up badly as the morning advanced. STARTING STALLS AT ELLERSLIE The new starting stalls which have been erected at the mile post at Ellerslie are an innovation in Auckland and will be used for the first time at the Pakuranga Ilunt races on Saturday. fwo events, the Greenmount Hunters' Steeplechase and -tlie .Jellicoe Handicap, will be started from them and, if the results are satisfactory, it is likely that the stalls will be used at other starting points at Ellerslie." The stalls are constructed 011 pipe frames three feet six inclies higli, wliich fit into sockets set below the turf. They are liglit and easily movable, and when they are lifted away a wooden dimnny goes into eavities above the sockets and leaves aliout three inches to be lilled in with loose soil. Tlius, if ihe hoYses have to come round past the starting point again in the progress of a race, there will be time for the stalls to be moved away. There is a space of three feet four inclies in eacli stall. TELEVISiON OF NIGHT TROTTING IN CHICAGO History was tnade at Mavwood Trotting Park, Chicago, recently, when an eutire Saturday niglit programme was presented to teievision audiences of the Chicago area. The innovation proved a great success, and reception was reported good withiii a radius of 75 miles from Mavwood. Mavwood Park is mid-America's •great tiight trotting track, and when t'aptain \Y. Eddv, general manager of Chicago 's only teievision station, \YBIvB, ofl'ered to show eity residents the beautil'ul spectacle of light-haruess horses in action, per niedium of television, Park oflicials were not slow in answering in the adirmative. That the efforts have been highly successful is sliown in critical reviews in Chicago newspapers. Two nien are employed to handle the job of following the horses with the camera. Oue uses a 135mm. 17in. leus R.C.A. Image Orthicon to piclc up the stnrts . and fmishes and shots in the

winners' circle, while the other has thi even more difficult t9.sk of followiny tlie horses through the back straighl with a 24in. lens R.C.A. Image Orthicon