DANNEVIRKE HUNT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 13

DANNEVIRKE HUNT

Hawke's Bay Horses with Engagements NOTES AND COMMENTS In all probability Hastings anil Greenmeadows will be representbd by tbe following liorses at the Dannevirke Hunt meeting on Saturday next: — Blue Tiger, Mercian Prince, Sibyl Sohg, En Vidette. Aarou, Laddv Wessex.

Tommy Atkins, Dozzie, Cotsfield, Hunter Brown, Le Touquet, hjesurina, Cld trac, First Chapter and Salon. Blue Tiger is engaged in two l'aces, the hurdles and ten-furlong hack, but. it will be the latter race that he Will in all probability contest. At Hastings he ran a fair third in the hurdles, and after racing at Dannevirke he will go on to Manawata aiid then to Trentham. Mereian Prince has not yet raci'd over hurdles, but in his schooling shows fair protndse. Becent ^aciug appears tb have had a bengficial effect on the big bay gelding. Iddo, winner of the Hawke's Bay hurdles, was also nominated in twb events, hurdles and middle-distan.ee hack, but Ml'. Woods, his owuer-trainer, told the writer that he was definiteiy starting in the flat race and would then go on to Trentham for hurdle racing. Sibyl Song ran poorly at Napier Pai'k earlier in the month When her stable eompanion, En Vidette, did not coni- . pete. The latter has won on the tlat and is also a brilliant fencer. Agog ,who has been disappointing on the flat, inasmuch as he has raced much below track work, is down to compete in the hurdles. On Monday morning he Was given his first schooling lesson and with N. Trillo in the saddle shaped promisingly. The few Cape Horn's that havp been put to jumping have shown leaping ability, includihg LilOck, one of the favourites for the forthcoming V.E.C. National steepleehase. Lady Wessex, when first schooled, did not shape so badly, but has not improved as Would be expectedi with the experiencfe. She comee from a family that hawe all been able to jump, so may lack confideuce in herself at pre* sent. In his fed schooling essays on the Hastings tracks, Tommy Atkins has gone particularly well, and it would not be in the least surprising to see him racing prominently on Saturday. • # ■ • Dozie will contest the Dannevirke Hunt Steepleehase. She won at Napier Park certainly but that win was mainly due to the cutting off of the corners by jockey A. Lord. At Hastings she was a bad last the first day to fall the second. Certainly Saturday 's field does not contaiu horses of the calibre of Manawatu, Kiotous and company so that she raay go better. f # # • Cotsfield always races best his firstup so that with a fight let-up sinc* Hastings the Gold Soult gelding may go close in colleeting the first stake for his new owner. • • • In being placed at the top of the handicap in the six-furlong hack sprint Buster Brown has not been treated leniently-by "any means but more like the reverse and on Hawke's Bay forin wili need to dmprove considerably in tho next few days to have any ehanco against Gladium. • • * Le Touquet ran a fair race at Hastings for half a mile so has only to improVe a little to be one to have at least an outside chance. • • • Mesurina has done most of his work in the hunting field and on the road and it is quite possdble that this treatment will suit the Arausio gelding, as he has always known how to gallop but only on rare occaeions could he be persuaded to give of his best on the day. With only 51bs. above the minimum -in the Ladies' Bracelet, for qualified hunters, he as nicelj placfed. * # • The other entrant from these parts in the Bracelet is Cletrac, who in fche maiden event last Thursday at Hastings after drawing No. 16 at the barrier ran a ,most creditable third. This son of Tractor has always ehown on the track possibilities of runnang sueeessfully over a distance of ground and with Mr G. G. Beatson in tho saddle is one that cannot fail but attraet attention. » » • First Chapter is not finding his feet as readily as formerly so that short d'istances may be seeing him at a disadvantage and for that reason his party nominated him for the severn furlong hack Dn Saturday at Dannevirke, in which he will attract attention as the opposition is not over-sfcrong. » * • Salon ran a very fair race the second day at Napier after being most dis' appoiu ting the first day at the same meeting iu the Ladies' Handicap. On the first-mentioned raee he would be a possibility on Saturday. 6 * • To D. Hyslop's lot has fallen the task of civilisiug, if possible, the Hunt mg Song gelding, Hunting Jay. This unruly animal it is understood is to be broken into liaruess in an endeavoUr to teach him manners. Becently he wai given the opportunity to rehabilitate himself before one of the stipendiary stewards but his behaviour was sueli that he failed to get a ticket of clear ance. « * • Sir Nigel is the latest to be schooled liere, The other morning with N. Trillo on top he was first sent over the pony hurdles and afterwards o"ver one of the schooling hurdles. Over botji he gavw every promise oi' making a neat. aud clean fencer. • • i H. Grifliths has a Hunting SOng -- hlonette by Liiaoud colt in his chargo and the vismg two-year-olds on looks, , ehould prove equal to wihniug racoe

and also one that will not take a gfeat deal of time to eome to hand. # # ♦ Hawke'6 Bay will be represented by a big contingent at the Wellington winter meeting early next month. Otir horses around this locality may not oe very classy but at any rate the owner s are sporting enough to take on tne "town ita.ll J > meetings.