DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 8

DIVOTS

DUG BY "THE DELVER." DON'T FORGET that at the Te Aroha Jockey Club's meeting on the 27th. inst. and 1st. . prox. some £5000 wil' be distributed in stakes, iucluding a cup event of £1000 and the Presidont's Handicap of £500, wibh i»4 other races ranging between £350 aud £200. Nominations are due on Friday ner;. • • • When Mata Hari won the Zealandia Handicap at the Takapuna meeting her S.O. dividend ran over the quar-fcer-century. • • • The Wellington Racing Club paid out £9350 in stakes over the recent meeting at Trentham and glose on £16,000 in taxation. # • • • It is understood xhat there is a possibility of Gold Boa being taken over to Australia. Such a race as the Caulfield Futurity Stakes would suit her.

.• • • The well-known Waikato hurdler, King Mestor, was offered at auction at Taumarunui recently. The best offeiwas £4, but this amount was no inducement for the present o.wuer to dispose of him. • • • Mr Charles Boyle, of Australia, is reported to have purchased privately the yearling colt by Pink Coat — Geisha that was passed in at the national sale. The youngster has been sent to Levin. * * #« Providing Tudor trains on the right way during the next few weeks, 'his owner, Mr B. Brewer, of Cambridge, intends sending the Little England gelding to Melbourne with the view of competing. in jumping events on the other side. # * • Royal Chief showed plenty of dash when working over five furlongs at Riccarton last week, and he promisea to strip in his best order to contest the Middle Park Plate on Saturdav next. # # • An offer of 1000 guineas was refused for Brunhilde, who gav© Haughtv Winner 121b. on the last day of tha Wellington Cup meeting and ran hira to a short half-length. Brunhilde carried 9.7 and was staying on weli under a big burden. * * • A few days after her eale at the Westmere Stud dispersal the brood mare Comedy Queen lost her colt foal by Beau Pere. The youngster broke a leg while playing about and had to be destroyed. The unlucky new owner is Mr C. H. J. Sc-hmidt, of New Soutb Wales, who paid 325 guineas at tho sale for Comedy Queen and the foal, the first lot to be offered.

The New Zealand Derby winner, Wild Chase, due to make his reappearance in the Midsummer Handicap next week, worked nicely over one mile in company with Top Notch at Riccarton on Saturday. Wild Chase is doing well now after the spell necessary after his racing at the New Zealand Cup meeting, and Top Notch has ovei'come the effects of her xhishap before she started her holiday racing. • • • The result of the Calliope Handicap at the Takapuna meeting did not nnearth a new winning two-year-old, the winner, Bachelor King. having won the Musket Stakes at Ellerslie in October last. He is a. colt by Lapidary from a mare by Chesterfield and :is trained by P. E. Popo at Takanini. • " ' • • • * • An interesting cricket mateh . was played un the Gonville Domain last Friday between teams representing the jockeys and the trainers who wero in, Wanganui for the summer meeting. The jockeys' team, . captained by W. J. Broughton, ecored a narrow win over the trainers, whose captain was W. Pine. • * */ • The moderately-faneied: Jan Ridd (Acre — Lorna Doone) brought off a surprise in winning' the Trial* Stakes Handicap at the Takapuna meeting, paying double figures on.the straightout machine. The winner was having his first race for some months and haa , been operated upon for respiratory fcrouble since last he appeared in publio. The treatment has proved a great success and he won handsomely. Carrying the colours made fafllous in Australia -by the Melbourne Oup winner . Wotan, Le Grand won the Wanganui Hack Handicap, for which he was not quite as well .backed as The Buzzer. Le Grand is the four-year-old progeny of Posterity and Eulogy, though in the "correct" card ho was given as being from Motley, whereas he is a haif-brother to Motlqy's dam, Pennon. • - • • • Acoording to a Hamilton leport Prince Acre has been working satisfactorily since being) recommissioned, and during last week he shaped well over hhlf-a-mile. Prince Acre is .to have his first start for a spell at the Matamata, meeting on Saturday and as he is a horse who invariably races well fresh, his chance oi* success at the meeting cannot lightly be discarded. • •. # When the recently-defuncfc Surveyor won the C.J.C. Welcome Stakes he led' home some youngsters that snbsequently achieved great fame on the turf. He beat War Plane, Affectation, Solfanello, Royal Stag and several others, including Amythas, who trained on to become one of . the greatest ever seen in New Zealand. Aiflythas won the Juvenile Handicap, run on the second day of the meeting in 46 Plate in 45 3-5sec— close to Gloam-

mg s record. • # • From the' time that he was a two-year-old, writes "Hurry On" Corroboree has been a much-bqomed horse, but in two and a-half seasons of racing he has managed to win only one race. He is a fine stamp of a horse but is rather too big p,nd invariably seems to get mto trouble in a race. If he were better plaeed in small field welter events he might prove capable of paying his way. He made a fine finishing effort in the Douro Cup at Trentham and on the strength of that showing was solidly support'ed in . the Kelburn Hack Handicap on the Saturday, but failed to fill a place.

w w » The time put up by Lavina in winning the Flying Handicap in lmin. 12 4-5secs. marks one of the smartest sprints ever put up at Wanganui, notes "Shrapnel." The class of horse running in the Jackson Stakes eonveys a line t© a good gallop over the dis- • tance on the Wanganui course. Gloaming won the Jackson Stakes four times. He first won as a three-year-old with 8.4 in lmin. 13 l-5secs., as a five-year-old Gloaming won with 9.0 in 1.12 2-5, the following year with 9.0 in 1.11 4-5, and two years later. with 9.0 in 1.13 2-5. During the history of the race 1.13 has been broken times. • • . • Ti.e Takapuna Cup resulted in a win for the Australian-bred Knight of Australia, an eight-year-old gelding by Windbag from Belle Shot, by Pisfcol, a son of Carbine. He was purchased in Australia as a yearling by Mr F. Rose, but he now races in the owner ship of Mr A. Tooman and is trained by A. Kemp, at Ellerslie. Knight of Australia had not won previously this season, and his ^ole suc-

cess last season was in the H. 0. Nolan Handicap, of £650; at Ellerslie at Easter, although he has been plaeed several times, before.