DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 111, 27 May 1937, Page 13

DIVOTS

"The Delv«r."l

DON'T FOBGET that hcceptiinees for the Great Northern Htirdles, Great Northern Steeple dhase, and the handieap eventa on the flrst day of the Auckland Bacing Cluli's winter meetihg close to'iiiOfrow (Friday) at 5 p.m. • # • The V&lkytdan geldihg Lofd "Val, who won the Waikato Hiirdlee on Satitrday, will be 10 yeare old in August next. • « • Dorado has now run oilt his hack | nominations and his futiire rhcing will j have to be done in ttpen elass, The stable apprentice# B. Williams, h&s ridden some of his best races on hira feeeiitlyg • * • It is stated that an offer of 50,000 gudiie&s was refused for the French bfed aiid owined eolt Le Kear after his wiii in the TWo Thousaiid Guiueas. Fiill aeeounts of the race show that he WOn very easily. * * • The foriner New Zealand horse Epigiain, who was taken to Australia by J. M'Laughlin, was recently sold at auction in Melboiirne for 25 guineas. "stibject to eoiisent of owixeri" Epigram was got by Pombal from EpisOde, by Limond — Homage. • * • The inquiry into thfe fall'ing of Tiidot in the Coronation Steeplechase on the flrst day df the Waikato ineeting, wheil O. ilcGoverii complained that he was interfered With by Don Erma, was condluded on Monday. After heafing the eVidence the jiidicial conmiittee decided to take no action. * • • Followuiig the rtmning of the Goronatiott Hufdles at Te Eapa,} B. Kowhai, rider Of the winner, Collision, was Suspended for a month for tiareleSs riding. When Collision ran to the front at the turn Kowhai allowed him to go across rather qtiiekly and it was for this that the rider earned his suspension. • * • Fariand# who woii his eecofld race m siiecesion on the Te Hapa traek wlien. he scored in the Otorohanga Haekj Handicap on SatUrday, had raced only' twice previously, so it was little ■rtronder he was at double figures in the big field, despite his earlier suceoss on the safne cotirse. His repeat porformanee, Otit cleat an front all the way, has left no doubt now about his quality.

Advice has been received that the well-known Sydney trainer, G. Price, is expected in i^ew Zealand shortly wxth tWo bi'ood mares. He Will visit Palmerston Ndrth to secure the Beati pere_Helen colt The Sqhire, who brought top priee at the last Natloiial Saies, where he was aequifed by Mr E. J. Watt for lOoO guineas. The eoit has beeii receiving his early education at the hafids of Mrs A. W. McDodhld • * # AccOiding to a Wellington writor a three-year-old gelding half-brother, by Saudstar, to Ecyal Papa has be=n tak-m ovt,i by It. Gritixth, Hastiugs, on behaif of a Wuiiaiapa sportsman, and Griflith was at Carterton on Saturday to take delivery. Boyal Papa won the flrst contest for the Duke of Gloucester. Cup. His half-brother is well grown and has been cared for and haeked about by his owner, so he should not, bo long iu getting into condition. Clarion Call, who nearly brought offi a surprise in the last Great Northern Hurdles, losing his rider at the last hurdle when looking unbeatable, was agttiu enterfid for the same eveflt nex. menih. He had had a couple of faces over the battens recently, runuing second at EgmOnt, but his effort ih the Coronation Hurdles at Te Bapa on Monday so disappointed his connections that he will not go on to Ellerslie, Clari.on Call is engaged at the Wanganui meeting, whicb is to be held at the same time as the Auckland lixture, and he will probably be raced there. • • • Mr Fred Armstrong, of Christchurch, owner of Entreaty, has received ad-viee from England that Te tlira, fiill sister to Bhar Lap, had produced a cOlt to Colorado Kid. Te Uira, bred by, Mr Armstrong, was bought at the yearling saies by a Hastings sportsman, but was never tried as a galloper and was sold as a three-year-old for 2000 guineas to go to the stud in England. Colorado Kid is a young sire by Colorado from Pretty Polly's last produce. Baby Polly. Colorado Kid won 10 races and £9462, and at the end of his racing career was sold to Lord Woolavington, now owner of Te Uira. • • • Black Marlin's victory, says an Auckland onlooker, was a real triumph, as it W3>s only the secon^ timc that lio had been over country. His flrst such race was in the Coronation Steeples at the Bay of Islands meeting on .Coronation Day, when as a resnlt of good sfchooling he was sent out favourite, but he was easily beaten iuto third plaee by Eoxy and High Quality. That race, however, gave him the confideuce for his next outing at Te Bapa. His only mistake last Saturday appears to have been in cloutiug the last fence, but it did not prove serious and hc was easing up before reaching the winning post.