PAIR FROM GISBORNE

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 10

PAIR FROM GISBORNE

AND^MATES OF : TAI AO'S

■ Those investors, at-C'arterton who were ; with .the. Gisborne;winner,l Kahunoke, will perhaps -be" noting' that the' Gisborne representation has Been increased to: three at Levin -on.; Saturday,, the ■ additional two visitors being. Aiguille and Good Hunting. .Mr. Coyle has .-.not taken any-risks with this.latter pair, however, possibly-"recall-ing .that -their trainer,■ J.:.-W. •■ Nixon, brought' down that good hack, Tai Ao, toFeilding last Easter, and there gaily deceived another., handicappef. Aiguille-heads the list ih-the Mako Mako Hack Handicap with 8.6. He is a four-year-old' bay gelding :by. Threadneedle (a son of the'Autumnus'horse Autumn) from the Gazeley mare Sabine, the dam also of L'Autumn,-1 Autumina, and. Autumn Sun, who are all by . Autumn, and he' is the first representatives'of.his sire;'who died after a short stud .career,.to race in .these parts. He is o\yned by Nixoii. himself. As a twb-year-old, :when'' he" ran as' a colt, he had'.,6nly, one 'race: .He reappeared ,last. January ,-at/ Wairoa-, and won:.a. maiden ."race on .'the first day and }vas,second oh.the next..: Then at his' next starts.'.he.contested' an'dv won tlte Hack trol,d.-;Cup, pnb; mile,. at Gisborne1; and was also, successful over six/furlongs "at' Poverty a week later, .beating Megaphone. In ' three; other1 starts .during:last season he' Was twice third and once unplaced. His only: racingthis 'season-was at-the recent ■Poverty-Bay Meeting, when he ran second to Black- Songster- in the-Roseland 'Hack.Handicap, six furlongs, and third to .Black .-Songster, and' Stitch-in the Wai-' kanae Hack .Handicap, one mile, on the second .day.-:-\ln .ten - starts thus he has won- three times and been out of a place only twice.-:-. ■■• •;-..-.,..,. ,

Nixon's other representative, Good Hunting, is a three-year-old chestnut gelding by Hunting Song from the Sarto mare barty, a daughter of imported Love Token, by Santry, and he races in the colours of the Gisborne sportsman, My. C. L. Ferguson, who also owns Malahat. His engagement is in the Hokio Hack Handicap, five furlongs, in which he has second: top. weight "with 8.2. . \ ' . ?fc; is: 9«'te on .the-cards that this gelding is a', good sort,', and^his',trainer' must think so; otherwise .he would. hardly; have undertaken.the long- trip-down the coast with: him. '.■■''■■■■; - ■.".-.

.'. "Last; season he contested two, jaces, and in^hisi second■ jta'rt' he. ran ia. :good third to.older' horses, Master Frank" and Prih'- ?£?§„ Star, in a in'aiden race at Gisborne in which horses of all ages carried 8.0.This season:-he1 :has had only two ■ races1 and he has-won- them both; ■ They were the, Maiden. Scurryj, six furlongs,-and the Juvenile -Stakes, five fjirjongs,,on the .two daysj,' respectively of the ■Poverty. Bay Meeting; in, October. He beat nothing of known, ability, and won only by necks but he will hive improved since, and should bo well worth a look over on Saturdaj.