BROWN DERBY TO RACE AT WANGANUI

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 278, 23 August 1945, Page 9

BROWN DERBY TO RACE AT WANGANUI

Dominion Special Service CHRISTCHURCH, August 22. The Robin Goodfellow gelding Brown Derby continues to give every satisfaction in Hie tasks allotted .him, and is now ready Io be put to the test in public. He was taken to the South Canterbury Hunt meeting and given a run round the track after the races, and was allowed to cover a circuit at Ricearton on Hie second day of the Grand National meeting. In each case he did not give any trouble. Arrangements are in hand to send Brown Derby to next, month’s spring meeting ar Wanganui to race iu a maiden event on the first day and In the Wanganui Guineas on the second day. • , . The four-year-old Air Lord, by boheitorGenerai from Iceni, has been taken over bv D. G. O’Connor, who also trains Desert Victory for Mr. E. B. Rawlings. When trained bv L. J. Ellis. Air Lord won a division of a maiden event at the Christchurch Hunt Club’s meeting in 1944 and was narrowly beaten in a hack event at Washdyke hist October. The Ricearton trainer L. Cavalier, who sustained a severe fall from a horse during training operations before the Grand National meeting, haw returned home from hospital, but is still suffering from the effects of a head injury and is not likely to resume work for a while. The Ricearton slndmaster, Mr. L. XV. St.orry, this Week sent to Palmerston North to be mated with the Hyperion horse Ruthless his two br<»od mares Glowligbt and Lady Zephyr. Mr. Starry has running at his slud two well-grown yearling colts bv Neptune from these mares, ami they will be included in the first of Neptune s progeny to be oll’ered al the next jcurling sales. Mr. Storry also has a colt by Coroiiacli from Romarin, dam of Romalln, which he will also send to 'lrentiiaiu. Roman Son bad to miss most of the winter racing because of splint, trouble, but he appears to be sound again, and will be raced in hurdle events at coming spring meetings. . . , , R. Wilson has recommissioned Gamble and Beau Cheval. The latter has furnished into a massive four-year-old. and should take high rank among the season’s handicap performers. He "’ill probably have his first race at Ashburton.