PALMERSTON HACK RACES.

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 98, 23 February 1889, Page 2

PALMERSTON HACK RACES.

The following are the weights for the Hack Hurdles and Hack Flat race, to be run at the Falmerston meeting on the Ist March : —

Hack Flat.

Hack Hurdles.

J. E. Heney, Handicapper. (Notes by " Maxim-" The result of the Dunedin Cap, which was run on Wednesday, was rather a Burprise to the sporting public The general opinion now is Dudu was'nt wanted on account^of her running last, but my opinidion is the distance was too far for her, and the best horse won at the weights. Ted Cutts, the owner and trainer, has never been known to run a horse stiff in all his racing career. He is noted to be one of the most straight-forward racing men we have in New Zealand, as well as being one of the best trainers. When he brings his horses to the post the public can always rely on them being fit, as well as getting a straight run. It is hardly likely that such men as the Hon. G. McLean, the Hon. G. H. Clifford, Major George, and a great many other wealthy owners, would give him their horses to train if he could not be trusted. He has a great many enemies among the bookmakers, simply because he ignores them altogether. In the Wellington Cup, Sultan was j selected as first favorite immediately the weights appeared, but on account of his meeting with an accident shortly after, he was thrown out of work; and until a fortnight before the Wellington Cup was run he was considered an unlikely starter. He was then put into work again, and on the day of the race was as good a favorite as Dudu, notwithstanding he was short of work.- Soon after the start for the above race, which Dudu won easily, the whip was used very freely on Sultan, but he never could get on even terms with the mare at any part of the race ; but on the second day, when he was in receipt of ldlbs from the mare, he managed to turn the tables on her, beating her by a head. The distance was a mile and three-quar-ters. That race was as big a surprise to the sporting folks as his Dunedin Cup win is — as he ran a stone a better horse the second day than he did on the first. The race for the Cup, and a strong gallop his trainer gave him on the morning of the event improved Him wonderfully. I expect the fortnight's work he has had since the Wellington Cup was run, has improved him fully another Btone, if not more. Dudu's performance in the D. 3.0, Handicap, one mile and a half, on the second day, was another meritorious win, because she defeated the crack three-year-old Manton, and gave him two'ponndß. She now has proved herself a real clinker from three-quarters of a mile up to a mile and three-quarters, and my opinion is she can beat any horse in New Zealand at the present time, bar Nelson, for .a mile and ahalf, or a mile and three-quarters. It will be interesting to my readers to know .that both the sire and dam of Dudu are owned by Feilding gentlemen. Fame, the mother of Dudu, I believe, is now running on Mr F. Y. Lethbridge'a farm. Fame's performances, as a three-year-old, were equally as good aa Somnus, if not better. She won the Wanganui Derby, cutting the mile and a half out in three seconds faster than ever it had been done previous to that year. She also won the Rangitikei St. Leger and the Maiden Plate, and she also ran well forward in the Wanganui Cnp the same season. After that she broke down when being trained for the Wellington Cup, and has never raced since. By winning the D. JC. Handicap, Dudu incurs a 71b penalty for the Ijfanganui Cup, which brings her weight up to 9st lllbs.

St. tb. St. lb. Rossiter ... 11 4 Sir Garnet... 10 4 Ngatoto ... 10 12 Furitikei ... 911 Zag-zig ... 10 4 Fib ... 9 4 Shadow ... 10 4 Wairire (late i Grasshop'r) 810

st, lb. St. n>. Dove ... 9 7 Ada ... 7 12 Laundress ... 812 Rewa Rewa 710 Rangiora ... 8 7 Wairau ... 710 Rossiter ... 8 6 Fib ... 710 Strephon ... 8 4 Fermoy ... 613 Yag-zig ... 8 0 Rosebud ... 6 8 Mistake ... 8 0 Fanny ... 6 0 Ngatoto ... 712 Mascotte ... 6 0 Mistletoe ... 7 12