TRACK COMMENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 175, 11 August 1937, Page 13

TRACK COMMENT

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W w W e ( The folloWing have be'en nomiuated for the current racing season in conneetioh with the auhuai .eledtioii of offieets of the Napier Park Racing Olub. The oifice of presidoht is fetainfed ^ by . Mr Cecii Louisson ds no Pther hominatmhs have bceh rcceiVed; vice-presideiit, Mr A. G. Steadj tf eusuter, Mr. Vivian Cbx; committee, messrs j, fi, hfeGiveh} T. Parker, G. G. Smith, J'. W. Sandtihanni A, J, Jeffares and A. C. WiUiams,, 6 » « Auufois, who has been an absentee from the Hastings traeks, has joined up again With W. O, Gf iffith 's team, at present under coiitrol of Mr. Athol Griffiths, while the former trainer is away at Riccarton, with Journet and Tiger Gaih. # ® # Lady Chat is a three-year-old filly that is furnishing into something worth while looking at. Last seasoii she showed promise but di.d hbt imptess Us one to win jilvenile events over short courses as her breeding, by Nigger Minstrel — Table Talk (full sister to Pinmark and Estland, suggests^a distanee •will see her at her best. Aix Ideal Oaks filly is she. On-, SatutQay morning she Was going very comfortubly aiongside ti'oo Lotlis at the. eiifi of five furlongs. m • A Quake and Mon Ace, two inenlbers of Geo. Mufray'S string, are bofh at pfe--sent enjdyiiig the oats of idleness. . 'Ihe former has been iu Work fpr eigliteea months Without a spell aud has ofthn been raced twiee a day, sq that it cah be said he has earned his speil. Mon Ace has beqn disappoihtiiig, but his turn may dome. #" ^ t ■ Triplex has been aeffuired by a yOimg Otane sportsman, Mr. R,- (Diek.) LoUgnnan, who'sb fathef usefi to rhce her'e many years agO befo'te goihg to' Palmerston North, where he was Gfown RroSecutor fdr ^uitp a few yefipsi .Tfiplekf who is a haif-sistef/ by Joeulatoi'j to Tiger Gaiit ahd Blue Pigex/ has' shown form in her iuaiden attempts, §0 shtSula be handy ih thd spring", fHoUgh oix. present appearathfees she Will take & iittle iiihe to btiild hp in.Tommy Atkins (H. Marbuaht); Wasgi,ven a tfifn Over the cohhtfy' bh Haf* urday Mornihg and, for h ndvifee, aid not shape so' b'adiy." He is ib face at tne Tikokino Poin-to-P'oiht steepiechase meetihg this week-Pnd. # ' ir # Top liat- (H. MaTquant) Whs also sent d rOund of thd &fe6piefehas6 fences, showing fnrther. iihpreverhent. Hd fequires a litfle time, hui giVes pfomise of comihg gop'd.- He' is to faee at tne Wanganui itpiiikg meeting; Where 'tltefe is a haek and hunters' Steepieehaee each day. * » - Nothing looka better ofi the Hastings tracks at pfeseht than Tfes Se6 and it is harl luok for him that thdre is no race meeting on 'in this vicinity just now, • • »i Geii'a is working attractiveiy/ and should this season make the grade. By Afassio from Huirarau, this relative to Wefdhia, Gaptain Puf st a-fid Taro may see Mr. Prdnk Ofmotid eolieoting his flrst filly eiaissie prize ere Ien g.

• m # Master Cykloxi- is back in his 6]d box at trainer C. J, Stowe" 's stable and Will in fufure race in the infeipst of his ownery Mrs, E. Goodman. ,^e little feRow, who won about a thousand last season, has just coino in frpm a spell and, always being a plain-look-ihg geldihg, appears a little oS the rough side at preBdht. • * • The late'st tecrttit to tho ran ku of jumpers here is Biue Shirt (Garter Blue — Ghemlse) ahd fdi? a beginneV he shOWs decided pr6mise. Hik half br'other, Royal Shiff, after' disafpdipting dfi tho $M, pfoyel fd be a- Vdfy fair f eiic'er, but Ufiinekily wheh jii§t coming right iUet With Un ae'Cideiit aiid had to be de'stroyed. • A • Mr. W. Iali Hamilton 's filly by Hunting Son— TraCtrix, in company With f.he Gaseony--- Swdep CJean filly, Was sprinted a conple of furlongs on sati."day, W'ith Ihe former carryipg too •111 ;h speetL •. - "