MERRYMAN GALLOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 21, 26 January 1938, Page 15

MERRYMAN GALLOPS

BRUNHILD AT AWAPUNI

(Special to the "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day. The weather was overcast and there was a boisterous wind for track work at Awapuni yesterday morning. The course proper was open with the flags about 40 feet out, and the going, after heavy rain the previous day, was particularly good. Hunting Queen (I. Howe), an acceptor for the Pahiatua Cup, ran a riiile in lmin 51 l-ssec. Ambition (Lilley) sprinted three furlongs in 41Jsec, but Royal Choice and The Bigot were restricted to easy exercise. An interesting visitor to the track was Brunhild, who did not return to Hastings after the' Wellington Meeting and who is going on to the Taranaki Meeting. While at Awapuni she is in the care of J. P. Coyle. Cletrac (C. Thomson) was schooled over three fences, and he jumped with every confidence. Bodyline will do his next racing at the Wairoa and Gisborne Meetings, to which •he will be taken b.y H. S. Greene. Round Score has been turned out for a spell. , Another to go off the active strength is Hanover, Mr. H. H. Bryce's Little England gelding, who ran such a good race at Ashhurst. He will be put into commission again in the winter. At Ashhurs.t he was prominent for well over a mile, but he dipped and got rid of his rider at the last fence. His pilot, W. J. McDowell, received a bad shaking in addition to an injury to an ankle. Mon Ace (C W.. France) and Fair Day (Parkes) were worked, the former galloping six furlongs and the latter joining in for the last three. Mon Ace reached the three-furlong peg in 40 2-ssec, and Fair Day, a big chestnut by Cape Horn, held a' slight advantage over the last bit. which, he covered in 41 2-ssec. Mon Ace took lmin 9 3-ssec for the last five and lmin 24sec for the full distance. Bluffer (W. Little) was exercised on one of the inside tracks, and then galloped seven furlongs on the course proper. She ran her first half-mile in 54sec, five in lmin 7 l-ssec, and she went on strongly to complete the full distance in lmin 33 4-ssec. It is probable that W. Little will pilot the filly at Pahiatua. Merryman (R. Chisholm), who is another engaged at Pahiatua, was sprinted six furlongs,.and, after a slow-run first furlong, he came home very fast to complete in lmin 22sec. He took 15Jsec for the first furlong; 56 2-ssec for the first four, and came home the last two in 25 3-ssec. Brazil (Little) had the speedy Iliad —Merit filly (J., Chaplin) as a companion in a five-furlong flutter, and the latter just led him home, the time being lmin 6£sec, after they had run the first three in 39 l-ssec. W. J. Broughton will be riding at Pahiatua on Friday,, but it is not known yet whether he will be there for the two days. He has been engaged for Colleen Gain, Earl's Court, Pladie. and Lone Raider. ' : .