H.B. NOMINATIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 204, 14 September 1937, Page 15

H.B. NOMINATIONS

'The Barb.")

New Zealand Cup Event

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Light Hawke' Bay horses have been .ifforded nomination in the fortlicomKew Zealand Cup, viz., Shlirfed Eiobon, Werohia, boho, Padishah, Trailer, Hunting Cat and, Captain Furst. It is some time since tho premier handicap event of the Dominion was won by a Hawke '& Bay entr&nt, &o that it is about time the Cup agaiii came this way. Werohia Js second last season and Gold Trail's in 1934 being our best endeavours of recent years. * £ * The weights are due - to appear on Friday week,* September '24, and it will not be surprising to see six of our eignt representatives plaeed on the 7st. mmimum mark. * * Maine 's most important Victory to date was her surprise win in the W fiyte handicap at the 1936 winter meetmg of the Wellington R.C. on a heavy track. Her sire, Arausio, has yet to get a stayer, while praetically all tue progeny of her dam, Hoy, have been short distance winners. Maine has not been seriously tried over a distance, but she did aecount for the Chfimpion Hack Cup, one mile three furlon'gs, at Trentham, so it is just possible she may possess sufiicient stamina to win a twomile race, though the odds are against it^ 0 * • \ Shirred Eibbon has won haek races only, and not many at that. She is small, frail but tough and, being by the f'olymelus horse Garter Blue from a mare by Martian, Mrs. Eiehmond's ngmination should find little diffieulty in developing staying power. She is a smooth galloper, her actioa being suggestive of staying quality. # «= « Werohija wais seaond last year to Fersen in oue of the poorest fields that have ever contested the even^;. By Greyspear from a King Mark mare he should go two iniles all right, but last season 's form indicated that the bay gelding was not on tbe improve. * * 0 Soho, by the HurJ»y On horse from St. Annes, by St. Savin (a son of St. Simon) from Conceit, by Boniform from Lady Way ward II., by Ladas from Vane (sister to Flying Fox), by Orine from Vampire, by Galopin ,Mr. G. D. Beatson's handsome five-year-old gelding is backed by the stoutest of blood. He impresses greatly as a, potential stayer, even if not a brilliant one. Those who witnessed the Coronation Cup at Hastings last May will scarcely but admit that in that race he was 4, very unlucky tkird and that his finishing effort that day wa® a real good one. Padishah is by Chief Ruler from a Martian mare that has thrown a genuine stayer in Cuddle (two Auckland Cups and a N.Z. Cup), and his sire begot Admiral Drake and Gold Trail, eaeh of whom won an Auckland Cup. Mr. J. A. Hennah's fepresentative has thus the right brecding recommenda,tions'j In winning the H.B. Jubilee and Coronation Cups last autumn he came irom the rear both times and finished resolutely and strongly, pulling up as fresh !as a lark. The impression. gained then \ was -that He woiild stay on for another I three-quarters of a mile. His ownet- ! trainer cau be relied upon to have his horse fit and well when landed at the post aad already, even. outside the district, he is being selected as one oi the early favouritos. 0 # « Trailer has proved _ himself a good middle distance hack but nd more,vbut he has not yet been tried in a higher grade. By Tractor (son of The Tetrarch) ftom Hinehohoro, by Absurd, Mr. George Priest's chestnut gelding liardly appears in the light of a stayer. 0 0 0 Hunting Cat last season, when he was thought by many to have tbe race at his mercy, went badly amiss the same week of the race. After a long spell he bas now been in work for about four months and shows no signs of' last, season 's leg weakness. Up to a mile and a?balf (the furtnest he has been tried) .the son of Hunting Song and Catalini has been a winner and I have yet to hear a dissenter from the eUggestion that he would stay another half mile. On Thursday last, after a long absence from the racing tracR, he was third at Wanganui, so thait by the time the N.Z. Cup arrives G. W. B. Greene should have Mr. O. Nelson 's gelding in capital order. He is now in his sixth year, * # • Captain Furst may be the exception as far as Arausio is concerned in siring a stayer. He has Won but two small novice races among poor class over short distahces, so that in public there is nothing to suggest him running out two miles. Yet some who see him daily working in private are of opinion that his half-brother to Werohia will stay. He will be given chances later on in handicaps to give practical siipport to this theory.