DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 8

DIVOTS

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DON'T EORGET that nominations for the autumn meeting of the Auckland Racing Club, and forfeits for the Great Northern Oaks, Champagne Stakes and St. Leger Stakes, are due with the iseeretary, Mr W. S. Spence, to-morrow (Friday) at 5 p.m. * * # For taking a wrong positfi*. at the barrier for the Waihou Handicap at Te Aroha on Saturday with Impasto, on whom he won the race, A. E. Ellis was fined £3 by the judicial committee of the Club. * n ' # The breeding of the Heroic colt, Hua, winner of the V.R.C. Sires' Produce Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, has a Dominion interest. His daxn, Gladioli, is a grand-daughter of that great New Zealand mare Gladsome, by Seaton Delval — Miss Gladys, by Cuirassier, son of Musket. # *. * Mr W. R. Kemball's great ambition bas been to get on tbe list of "classic" winners. He looked like having a very good cbance of it being gratified in the three-horse St. Leger run at Flemington last Saturday, but Prince Quex proved just not good enough even in that small field. * * * Master Brierly is not so good as he was a couple of years ago^but a drop in the weights enabled him to win Te Aroha 's first £1000 Cup and show that he is not the spent light that had been suggested. A year ago he would have had another stone to carry, and as he is not a big horse the concession makes a lot of difference. * * * New Zealand-bred horses noted in the entries for this year's King's Cup, to be decided at Perth on April 3, are: The Riff (Chief Ruler— RoseUate), Childstudy (Psychology — Paoanui), Yaringa (Iliad — Refinement), Dainty Verse (Iliad — Isa), and First Cofisul (Chief Ruler — Lady Pym). All except The Riff, who i3 from Adelaide, are owned in Perth. «• *. * Two horses who were not penalised, as they might have been, for recent wins were successful at Te Aroha on Saturday, notes "Rangatui. " They were Taro and Debham. Taro again led from start to finish, as he had done at Woodville earlier in the week. Ab the Te Aroha field was praetically a maiden one, it was rather astojinding that Taro was left on the minimum and not rehandicapped, especially as many horses still maidens were assessed several pound's above him. # * . *

Debham 's case was somewhat different, ias lie was encountering better class than when he won at Te Rapa a week- earlier, and Kilonsa, whom he had previously just beaten, was several pounds nearer him in the weights. However, it seemed a little surprising he did not receive two or three pounds extra, for he was almost certain to have been benefited by his first race (and win) in open class. * * * Mrs S. L. Parsons, owner of Jonathan, has informed an Auckland Star •representative that Jonathan's racing caveer has been terminated, and he has been given to his traiijer, A, Cook, to use as a hack. Jonathan was a fine performer, his victories including the A.R.C. Easter Handicap, and the A.R.C. Eailway Handicap. He won the latter event with 9.12, which is the highest weight carried to victory in that race. * * * A seriou's injury was sustained by Mata Hari when she was galloped on while contesting the Waihou Handicap at Te Aroha on Saturday. One of her Iiind legs was severely cut, and donbts are expressefe. as to whether she will race agam. Mata Hari had only recently entered J. M. Buchanan's stable at Ellerslie. Her latest success was gained on the first day of the Takapuna Jockey Club's Summer Mehting, when she won the Zealandia Handicap. On the second day she was narrowly beaten by her stable companion, High Tea, in tbe Devonport Handicap. * * * Just as H. Dulieu had begun to despair of Bazaine as a chieken-hearted rogue, says a New Plymouth writer, he begins to show form. Bazaine ran two really good races at Opunake. In the hurdles he lost ground at every fence to Don Erma and coming into the straight he did not look like a winner, but responding generously to MeGovern's riding be ran on solidly to score comfortably. Brought out again two races Iater he beat all but Lady Kyra in the Flying. He was always one of the leaders and though he had no chance with Lady Wyra over the final furlong he hung on gamely to Eold off a late challenge from his stable* mate MuStang and seeure second place. On these showings Bazaine appears well worth jsersevering with. Young Idea's breeder-owner, Mr Percy Miller, was surprised when there was no demonstration against his horse for an apparent reversal of form in winning the St. George Stakes at Caulfield last Saturday week! Mr Miller was quite puzzled by the brilliant form shown by Young Idea after his poor display at Williamstown the previous week. He would not have been in the least resentful had the crowd shown any displeasure at the apparent reversal of form. He remarked later in the day that if there had been any hooting the crowd was entitled to hoot. It is not often an owner is willing to justify a demonstration against himself but Mr Miller is a sportsman.