DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 110, 26 May 1937, Page 13

DIVOTS

"The Delvet"

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DON'T FORGET that Auckland acceptances must be in by 5 p.m. on Fri*day next • • • • On Thursday, June 3, at 6.15 p.m., all Natioual stations will rebroadcast a re- : cord'ed comuientary on the running of the Englieh Berby. # # # Three sons of Spoirfcing. Girl— -Ponty,. ' Joppa and Banker's Choice— all by different sires, raced at Washdyke on Thursday. Q * * • . Mr W. T. Harlett, of Invercargill; hasl shipped to Melbourne- a eonpie of rising ; two-year-olds, Nokomai, a bay gelding by Colonel Oygnns — Speed Light, and : GOld Cfolonel/" a bay 'colt by Cygnus— Gold Light. • 0 * The apprentice allowance, opines 'rSentinel'/'' sh'ould Be barred: ifi tho two* principal races on any curd, ixrespeetive- Of the valtfe" Of the stakesy bw cans® it means putting up- comparative'ly inexperienced riders in a race that takes mOst winning. L. J. Ellis is spending a holiday in Southland. He receiyed a- medical ciearance during a visxt to Wellington 'last week, and will resume track riding next week preparatory to riding in , races again next monthy proBably at Wingatui. * # • New Zeaiand-Bred horses have won about £55,000' in stakes: in Amstralia this season, bnt more" than two-thirds-of this amount was aceounted for by D'ominion-bre d horses now owne'd in the Oommonwealth. • • * 'Grey Honour, who won on each day at Timaru, was got by Honour from Greylase, by Greyspear from Tremxxlous, by Boyal Artillery, He traees back to Aspen, a mare that won the Y.B.C. Handieap in 1880 and 1881. Grey Honour is a lusty colt that should xmprove with age". * m m Lough Neagh cost 100" guxneas au a yearling, and has won £18,511 m staltes, His record readst 109 starts, 3l wins, 21 secondsy and 17 thirda, He was got By Baelieior 's Persse from Terentia, a New Zealand-bred mate by Bezonian-^-Cttlture, by BonifOrm from Chilroy, by Waltace. '# e « Tea Ghat, who is nominated for sfeeplechase events at the Great North-' ern meeting, has been a visxtor to Ellerslie on several occasions recently. He is well forward in condition, and has evidently done a Iot of work away from the course. In comgany with Free Air, Tea Ohat was sehooled over the big fences on the fiat and did his task in a satisfactorv maniier.— -Auckland Star, # ♦ • Milford, winner of the principal handieap at Titn'aru on Thursday, was new to Canterbury crowds, bttt he has good form in Southland, and raced exceptionally well at ihe Bivorton Easter meeting, where he was twice first and once second in three daya. He has bfeeding of interest in Hawke's Bay, being by that goo'd.horse Anomaly, Who in the hands of the late Stewart Waddell won a nuwber of races for the Hon, J, i), Ormond.- Last season he won the Southland Cup, #■ # m O. Cox, who owns and trains Friesland, etated last Saturday that he WUJ proba-bly be taking FrieslUnd and possibly some other horses to Sydney^ in the spring if the weights suit, Friesland'S missxOn is tO'be the Epsom Handieap at Randwick iu Ovtober. Cox was infiuenced in coming to this decisiOn by Friesland wonderful performance in winning the Tawhiti Handieap on the first day of the Egmont meeting after being apparently hopelessly left when the barrxer rose • # • Sir Charles CMord had the ill-Iuck recently to lose one Of 4 his Stonyhurst mates, Top Score, a sister to Winning hit, and dam of Rocket and Top Notch. Last season she slipped twin foals to Myosotis, and had the aame mififortune this season*, dying shortly afterwards. Another loss was eufieroci when the three-year-old Sailalong, by Winning Hit from Shoopalong, died from an internal hemorrhage, • « # The two West Coast hurdlers, Httnting Bag and Giggieswick, showed a vast variation of form 6U the" two days at Washdyke, notes a Christchurch exchange. Huutxng Bag won like a good horse on Thursday with. Giggieswick struggling On in thxrd place. O'n Gatux'day, HuUting Bag, after making the runUing as he did On the firSt day, WUs well beaten two fttrlongs from holne, at which stage Giggieswick made a forward move, and overtakxng the leaders over the last fence, ran home on© of the easiest winners of ihe day. • * m The Pareora Steeplechase at Wash-" dyke on Saturday was a chapter of accidents. Polydora went out at the first fence, SunWard 8hd Elgindale at the stand double, and Streamline ran off when in charge about five furlongs from home. Hunting Go then took charge and came to the last jump with Sunny Dawn in close attendance. Sunny "Dawn ran off and Highspeed and Bonny Bluff followed suit, Joppa fell. This left Huting Go to eome on and win from Nocturnus. Santoft, who was about l£(r yards away from the leaders with a mile to go, came on and finished third.