JOTTINGS FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20061, 6 October 1939, Page 3

JOTTINGS FROM TRACK AND STABLE

LOCAL SUCCESSES l “HAT-TRICK” AT NAPIER N.Z. CUP HANDICAPS TRIP FOR ROUND UP By “Trenton” Gisborne-trained horses had a field day at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s meeting yesterday. De Friend took the hurdles and Kindergarten won the Stakes, and then Native Song completed the “hat-trick” for both Mr. E. Fitzgerald, the owner, and I. Tinsley, the trainer, when he led the field home in the Otane Handicap. The remaining Gisborne horses, Gay Mimic and Taharakau, failed to gain a place. However, Gay Laura and Birkology gained second placings, and although trained in Hawke’s Bay, are owned locally. Past Cup Weights The weighting of Royal Chief at 9.6 for the New Zealand Cup recalls that since 1891 the only top-weight ailotjted less than 9.0 was. Occident, 8.11. in 1892. In the intervening years there have been only 10 occasions on which the handicap was not started above 9.0. A maximum top-weight of 9.0 was fixed from 1925 to 1930. inclusive, but it was eliminated when Nightmarch, after winning the Melbourne Cup in 1929. won the New Zealand ' Cup in 1930 with 9.6. The highest impost allotted in th 6 race was the 10.3 awarded to Sasanof in 1920, and the next highest was 10.0 to Waiuku in 1898, and Achilles in 19C4. Only a few of those weighted on top of the handicap have started, and the only winner off the original top line in the history of the race is Nightmarch. Following is a list of horses given pride of place in Ihe handicap, from 1901 to 1930 inclusive:—Advance 9.13,. Noneltc 9.9, Achilles 9.6, Achilles 10.0, Achilles 9.8, Mahutanga 9.0, Maniapoto 910, Zimmerman 9.9, All Red 9.4, Master Soult 9.0,- Los Angeles 9.0, Vice-Admiral 9.0, Bobrikofl: 9.6, Kilrain 9.0, Warstep 9.5, Eligible 9.3, Desert Gold 9.9, Client 9.1. Menelaus 9.0, Sasanof 10.3, Sasanof 9.9, Gas Bag 9.3, Scion 9.0, Roseday 9.2, Gold Light 9.6, Rapine 9.6, Star Stranger 9.6, Rapier 9.6, Nightmarch 9.6, Concentrate 9.2, Nightmarch 9.12, Autopay 9.0, Jonathan 9.1. Vintage 9.5, Silver Ring 9.12, Cuddle 9.9, Argentic 9.0, and Royal Chief 9.6. Another for Australia A trip to Australia is in view for the good performer Round Up, and unless present plans are cancelled he will leave shortly. Round Up was second on the list of winning horses in the Dominion last season with a total of £3125, and he registered some splendid performances under big weights in handicap events. He has not raced this season, but should have prospects in Australia if he reproduces his best form.

One Race Before Spell Kadina, one of the two-year-old members of the “Brentwood” team at Trentham, is to have only one race this season, and will then be turned out till she is a three-year-old. The race selected is the Juvenile Handicap on the second day of the Hawke’s, Bay meeting next week. She is going there, as her owner, Mr. K. Watson, now has a property in Hawke’s Bay on which he will spell her. Kadina is a well-made bay filly by Croupier out of the Elysian—Catalini mare Calorina, a half-sister to Catalogue, Paleta and Hunting Cat, hence she is one who should benefit with patient training. She was bred by her trainer, T. R. George, who transferred her to Mr. Watson in exchange for the disappointing Lady Baron, who is being put to Croupier this season. The “Flying- Bird” The former New Zealand trainer J. Fryer, now at Caulfield, apparently has a galloper above the ordinary in Manurere, a three-year-old brown colt by Foxbridge from the Tonbridge mare Green Linnet, for this colt was making his first appearance when he won a division of the Yarborough Handicap at Ascot recently. He was the medium of solid wagering and vindicated'the judgment of his backers by a stylish victory. Manurere was bred by Fryer, who won several races with Green Linnet, including a Telegraph Handicap at Trentham on Wellington Cup day at a long price. Fryer tells a good story as to how Manurere was named. It appears that one day in New Zealand he invited an old Maori to have a look at the youngster, and immediately the Maori saw the colt he exclaimed “Manurere! Manurere!” which, by the way, means “Flying Bird.”' Fryer liked the name immensely, so he decided to register the name of Manurere for the colt. It is particularly apt, too, as, the colt’s dam is Green Linnet.