HAWKE’S BAY HORSES

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 192, 10 May 1940, Page 13

HAWKE’S BAY HORSES

Prospects At ComingMeetings Dominion Special Service. HASTINGS, May 9. Hawke’s Buy stables will be represented this week at Gisborue by Auun. Red Cockade, Royal Wave, Silver Bat, Shaul, Kikiroki, Chandlery, Modern M ay, ' llS ' cones, Gay Mimic aud Royal Spade», and at Otaki by Master Cyklon Solaria, W.iy Ballad, Cherry Hunter. . Anini has been schooling proficiently at Greenmeadows and on Saturday yill be produced in the hurdles. Aow, alter heavy rain, this mare should fully test Small Boy with his 12.5. Red Cockade, for a novice, has been negotiating schooling hurdles m a most impressive manner. However, Jack oi racing experience may tell against him in this his first public appearance over hurdles. Royal Wave, a two-year-old half-sister by Tidal to Big Dook, showed a fine turn of speed last mouth at Hastings, so appeals as a maiden possibility, but the more experieuced Dusky Morn may’ prevail on account of that. Silver Bat is engaged in no less than three races oil'-the opening day at Gisborne, and is to start iu the Hack Flat, in which her chances are only moderate. Shaui is to contest the Hack Cup, despite her third wide out at Hastings last month. She has a difficult job to down Kintyre, who, iu his last start, won from a strong field, of middle distance hacks when awarded 7.8. Now, in poor class, he has only 7.12. Kikiroki goes a merry two miles over country and, being in good order, must race prominently in the Steeples, with perhaps the strongest opposition coming from Makoi, third last Saturday in the hurdles at Pukekohe, as the field otherwise consists of unsound horses.

Chandlery has been acquitting herself well in private, but is opposed by a strong field of hack sprinters, including Smiling Personality, who, though not too sound, will now be materially assisted by the soft going. Royal Spades has only to reproduce his recent outstanding track trials to be a force to reckon with ou the Gisborue trip. The quartette from here making the Otaki trip is not very impressive at The moment, as Master Cyklon is making his first appearance of the season, so will be hardly as forward as the majority of rhe field. Solaria has never given his best on soft tracks. Gold Ballad certainly will have a track to his liking, but his respiratory organs have 'been affected of late. Cherry Hunter, four-year-old full-brother to the above-named gelding, is making his first public appearance. He shows galloping ability, but as he is slightly barrier shy at present, a certain amount of risk must be taken in supporting him.