DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 4, 20 January 1937, Page 10

DIVOTS

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DON 'T FORGET that nominations for the Poverty Bay Turf Club's twoday summer meeting must be in by Friday evening next. * • # Grand Jury, top-weight for the Ashfidrst Cup, won that race under 7.10 five years ago. * • - • Next month 's Dunedin Cup will carry a stake of 750 sovs, including a gold cup valued at 109 sovs. The James Hazlett Gold Cup will carry a stake of 450sovs, including a gold cup valued at lOOsovs. • • • In reply to a verbal enquiry: — Black Berry, the winner of the Grand National Steeplerhase of 1899, was got by Gladiator from Good Fruit, by Creinorne. He was a half brother to Douglas (by Crawford Priory), who won several good Taces for the Hawke's Bay facing partnersfiip hetween the late Messrs Richardsoa and Donnelly. The Auckland horseman, R. W. McTavish, who injured a knee at the start of the Auckland Railway Handicap through coming into contact with the course rail, is still sing crutches and will probably not resume raeing for at least a fortnight. * * • A threeyear-old gelding named Cenotapi lColo' sus— Marceline), owned by the Woodville sportsman, Mr R. G. Smith, is in work at Woodville. He has not been in long but he should have a bit of pace, as his mother was the dam of Princesis Betty. • # • Her success at Marton has placed Ingenuity out of the hack ranks. She has been nominated for both the Wellington and Ashhurst Cups, but pulled out of the Trentham engagement, but she should give a good accont of herself at Ashhurst. • • * Hands Up, who won the chief event at the Rosebery (Sydney) meeting last week, is a five-year-old gelding by Night Raid from Redshank, dam also of Red Manfred. Limoux, winner of Flying Mile at the same meeting, is a live-year-old gelding by Limond from Whiie Tulip. * * • Children under twelve will not be acLmitted to any of the enclosuTes at the Wellington Raeing Club's meeting this week.- At recent- meetings they have been excluded from the lawn, but tfiey are being totally barred at this meeting because of the epidemic.. • • • * The Mosgiel trainer, A. E. Didham, nad several engagements at the Wellington meeting for his apprentice jockey, P. Spratt, who has fecently been riding winners in the south, but owing to the regulations regarding juveniles by the Health Department in the present epidemic of infantile paralysis, Spratt will not be able to make the trip north. • • # Allegations that in some instances acceptance lists were ' ' parked ' ' on the West Coast of the South Island circuit have been made and i. that in one case an acceptance was !iv. hi by toe stipeiifia.v siuvrthe upshot heing that the horse was lebarred from starting. We have not got to go f ar afield for instances of that kind, and there was considerable talk at a not very distant meeting of a horse appearing on tfie card without the owner's consent. • • • It is doubtful, says a Hamilton exchange, whether Sunny Downs ever" looked better than he does at present and when next he is produced in public he will be worth keeping in mincfi On the last day of the Auckland Christmas carnival he was flying at the finish of the Grey Handicap (1 mile) after being well back at the foot of the straight and on that running he can be written down as an early winner. • # . •. At the age of 26 Woolunqua, one of the most remarkable mares of recent years in Victoria, has thrown a colt foal by Vitality. It was her sixteenth foal. Although Woollunqua started in only one race before she was sent to the stud, 12 of her foals have raced and all 12 have won. * * ' • As a two-year-old Legatee gave every indication of Teaching a high class, having included among his victories a win in the Foal S takes at Ellerslie. His season as a three-year-old was a f ailure, but he again tehowed something of his old form at the recent Ellerslie meeting, where he won tbe Goodwood Handicap on the last day. He may be worth following in his next few starts. • • • An unraced two-year-old in the Fitzherbert Handicap at Trentham to-day is Haughty Winner, and good reports are to hajid of the galloping ability of this colt. He is by Winning Hit from Disdainful, by Bonny Glen from Lady Disdain. Disdainful is the dam of Meprisant and is a sister to Contempt, who was the dam of a brilliant performer in Silver Scorn. Haughty Winner hails from tfie stable of H. and A. Cutts. • • • The National Saies to-morrow will commence promptly at 10 a.m., when a catalogue of 134 lots will be submitted. At the conclusion of the, yealing saies, a mixed catalogue of stallions, brood mares, untried stock, and xacehorses in training, comprising some 30 lots, will be offered. Among the stallions are Limond 's half -brother Pombal and tfie Lord Warden five-year-old horse Isaacs, half -brother to Rabbi, the sire of Synagogue. These two stallions should "reata good competition. Tfiere are also some very attractvely-bred brood mares, and among the untried stock and ^ racehorses in training are some particularly promising lots, most of wfiich are being offered for sale without reserve. • v • Ardchville — only a Celt can pronounce _ this name properly — who has been/ winning recently at country meetings in tfie Far South, his latest victory being in the Wairio Cup, is a for-year-old gelding by tfie imported Lero berg horse Woodend from tfie importe mare Glentruin, a great- sprinter i her day. Her son with the Highlanname is, appropriately enough, ownet and raced by Mr J. B. MrGregor, o: Invercargill, who also owned Steeton, , winner of the N.Z. Cp of 1934. [