WAIPA'S DAY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 136, 25 June 1937, Page 17

WAIPA'S DAY

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Problem Presented By Big Fields MANY PROSPECTS

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AUCKLAND, Last Night. It Tcquiros only fme weather to mahe the Waipa fixture at Te Awamutu one of th© best of the several good meetings in the provinee, for the fields are exceptionally good and the class is there, too. For instance, in the W. G. park Steeplechase there are no lcss than sixtOen engaged, and of these five partieipated in the Great Northern Steeplechase. It is rara indeed that a eountry gathering draws together so many of the best jumpers in commission. This is One of several entertaining events set down for running. The going°is on the slow side, and betting will be conducted under .the win. and plaee syotem. Most interest ia certainly going to "be ©vinced in the Park Steeplechase, for there are still many good cross eountry raCes ahead. For instance six of the acceptors "are eiterefl in the Wellington Steepleehase, these being Sporting Song, Tudor, Allegretto, Don Erma, Yalpeen and Erination, so that this race is obviously up to metropolitan standard, even if the fences to be negotiated are very much eaeier than those at Trentham. On what was seen of these jumpers at Ellerslie recentlv the pick would seem to be Tudor, Valpeen, Windsor Lad, Erination Allegretto, Don Erma and Lucidus, while a newcomer is Sporting Song, who is a promising young 'chaser. , The maia faetor to be considered is gpeed combined with. fair fencing ability, and Windsor Lad appears to" fill the bill: perfectly, - He has fallen in his last three runs over eountry, but this eountry is different to Ellerslie and Te Rapa and it has to b© ■Temem-5 bered that he won this race last year. Don • Erma may represent the most dangeroue oppositioxu Modest Hurdleri \ The Orakau Hurdles has not drawn , a strong field, *but here again it is interesting in view of the entry of Boughal and Tout le Monde for hurdling events at Trentham nest month. Boughal goes fast and therefore this course will suit him, for the obstacles do not talce much jumping, so that he will be as well placed as at Tauranga, tvhere he flattened many fences. The difference on Saturday is that he will haye one or two of better class against hiin,. notably Tout le Monde, High Quality, Modern Maid, . Spearcourt, Lady England, Killader and L'Allegro. Modern Maid went well enough. in the Great Northern Hurdles for a mare that has no pretensions to stajnifla to merit big consideration here. On the flat there are the Woodstock Stakes and the Arapuni Handicap, run over ten and seven furlongs respectively. One Whetu has provea himself pn right-handed tracks find as the opposition is not actually strong he is well enough placed if he produces his best, but there is a serious doubt as to his running. Best of the others would appear to be the Whangarei winner, Day Wind, and Armacourt, Loombination, Te Hai, Maungatoon and the promoted hack Gay Bebel. Too Many For Comfort The Af&puni Handicap has a host of second rate sprinters engaged and luck will play the biggost parti A speedy beginning plus a Bmall marble is essontial, and there mUst be sufficient acceptors to make two divisionB. .Merial won so easily at* Ellerslie recently^ that she' must be hard to shake off with a run, and Mata Hari , Enge, Johnny Walls, Gay Seton, Loombiaation, Tonuerre (improyed since Wanganui), Sweet Rose, Philemup, Winlona and Tradesman are mefely a few who willbe in the picture if tbey get away well. The three top weights app^al most. In the niinor events corapetition is going to be particularly strong. Kinkle ia duo and ia iiicbly jilaced in the Hack and Hunters Htoepleckase; Eequiem is a possibihty in. a big field of majdens in the Trxal Handicap; and Pirate King, on better going than at EUorslie, may be i^1 liue to make amends nnw. In the Park Steeplechase there are two brackets copiprising Erination and Master Musk, and Valpai and IIluminagh. The last-named was lame -eailier in the yreeh, but is, all xight now and schopled well yesterday morning. The only- other bracket is that of ' Gay Seton and Gay Sister in the Arapuni Handicap, Form horses are the following: — 11.45, HACK AND HUNTERS' STEEPLECHASE. — Kinkle, Chang, Lucidus. 12.30, TRIAL HANDICAP. — Eequiem, Ngakaru, Very Glad. • 1.15, WOODSTOCK STAKES. — Armacourt, Day Wind, Loombination. 2.0, PARK STEEPLECHASE. — Windsor Lad, Etinntion-Master Musk bracket, Don Erma. 2.45, ORAKAU HURDLES. — Modern Maid, Lady England, Tout la Monde. 3.30, -ARAPUNI HANDICAP- — Moriu!, Mata Hari, Enge.^ 4.15, HAIRINI HACK.— Pirate King, Suuny Downs, Alyth.