H.B. HORSES AT TRENTHAM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 15

H.B. HORSES AT TRENTHAM

Repitfation Upheld Well NOTABLE WINS (By "The Barb.") Coneidering that all the important racing centres were represented at thc just concluded Wellington R.C. spring meeting the horses from this district upheld tbeir reputation well, winning the two-year-old "classic," the Wellesley Stakes, the principal handicap on Monday, the two important open sprints and minor races as well as collecting place money in five of the events. Thus the score wae six firsta, three seconds and two thirds, making a total of £2096 in stakes, a very fair record. ^ # Gay Son in winning the Wellesiey Stakes can be classified as the Domiaion's best two-year-old to date, as xn this race lie met the best from both islands and last Thursday 's field appeared to be easily the most classy paraded for this event for quite a few seasons. Gay Son showed gameness and determination, giving promise oi his making a good Derby proposition next season. # # # Gay Son made his first public appearance at the Marton meeting, when he greatly disappointed but the very heavy state of the going was voted against him. Brought back to Greenmeadows he rapidly improved and was taken next to Masterton, where he cantered away with the Nursery. In the Wellesiey Stakes he was not smartly away and occupied fourth positiou with the field, straightened up for home, but just when Surmount was being hailed as the winner Gay Son made a fine effort to catch the Surveyor gelding on the post and win by the narrowest of margins, though a length past the post he was a neck in front. His finishing run was greatly admired by lovers of a game horse. His next outing will be the C.J.C. Welcome Stakes^ and at the same meeting he may on the concluding day contest the Stonyhurst Plate, a hhndicap for two-year-ol,ds .with the lnaxitaum weight 9.0. * • • Gay Son, by Beau Pere, was bred by his owner, Mr A. Symes, from the New Zealand St. Leger winner, La Modernc, by Lord Quex from Lady Bal!, by Demosthones — Sunlight, by Birkenhead — Bonheur (own sister to Nonetted by Seaton Delaval from Charente., # # * Mr W. R. Kemball offered T250gns. for La Moderne as a three-year-old, but failing to secure a vet.'s certificate she luckily remained the property, oi Mr Syraes. Last Thursday 's winner is her first production, and Mr Symes has a yearling full brother to Gay Son running out at Longlands that is held to bo a still better type. Lord Quex has alrc-ady made a name for himself aa a sire of race winners and he is new rapidly eoming to the fore as a sire of suecessful stud matrons. * # • Beau Pere has now sired the winners of eight two-year-old races in this his first season to be represented on the N.Z. turf, a record for the first qiiarter of any racing season. Beau Pere when he went to the stud in England was at the service of breeders at a fee of 8gns. and when put up for piublic auction was sold to go to New Zealand for a paltry hundred. Mr Jofin Donald, of Wanganui, imported him and at his dispersal sale last January xeceived 3300gns. (Mr A. Symes went to 3200) for the Son-in-law — Cinna horse. His half-brother, Gay Shield, by Gay Crusader, in his few years at the stud in the Waikato sired many brilliant gallopers, but few, if any, could be termed stayens despite the fact that Gay Crusader was stoutly bred. Now back to Beau Pere, many would doubt whether, being a son of Son-in-law, a noted sire of distance horses, his stock would not eome to their best fintil three-year-olds, but seemingly they come eariy as well as giving promise of stamina. • • • J. H. Jefferd produced Black Thread the first day to narrowly win the open spring and then on Saturday had a freeh one in Ben Braggie to collect again. Black Thread was only recently handed over to the Ngatarawa trainer by the Gisborne trainer W. Goscomb, who has a big team. in work in Gisborne and could not leave i,t to go to Trentham, so Jefferd was given charge of the Mimetie gelding until after the N.Z. Cup meeting. • * * Ben Braggie has now been penalised to. 9st. for the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap and, when oue comes to analyse the positiou, the Gascony — Yalley Rose gelding does not seem favourably placed for the races he has won or the class of horses he has defeated, This leads one to thiuk that perhaps the Stewards' class to-day is not on anything like a par with that of a few seasons back. This is not meant to belittle Ben Braggie, who has been a most consistent performer and on Saturday showed brilliancy to win comfortably at the finish. * # * Royal Minstrel was fancied and fairly well supported locally in his Saturday 's win as before going away he was, as then reported, responsible for a very attractive gallop over once round on the Hastings plough. The first day saw him finishing within half a length of the winner, The Bigot, who at one time was owned and trained in Hastings and also has every appearance of making the higher grade. * # ♦ With the exception of Cerne Abbas_ none of the N.Z. Cup candidates gave any guide as to their prospects in the big two-mile handicap event next month. This four-yeur-old mara was ua-

lucky on the opening day and wnen winning on Saturday again revealed stamina. A four-year-old with 181bs. below weight-for-age, this mare, a Great Northern St. Leger and Oaks winner last season, looks well in for the N.Z. Cup • Granted that time records of hurdle races, outside the Great Northern, the Grand National and a few other important races are not kept in the Dominion, nevertheless it is no difficult matter to look such time records over one and a-half, one and three-quarter or two miles. When Donegal, the first day at Trentham, registered 3.9 many "dailies" considered same to be tho best put up here or in Auckland, but about a dozen years back the Gisborneowned Marshal Soult gelding Whanoko, when winning over the battens at the H.B. Cup meeting ran the mile and three-quarter3 in 3.7 3-5. # # # White Gold's failure to gain a place at Trentham on Saturday was a big local disappoiutment. Mr Lowry 's filly had started only once previously, at Wanganui last September, when she won easily, but from a poor field. She certainly had been galloping brilliantly over shbrt distances at Napier Park, but I, for oue, was not sanguine about her over a seven-furlong course as well as having little faith in Hunting Song mares. She will, however, doubtless win racee as at present she is anything dui race experienced. # * % The nominationa for the Waipawa annual race meeting to be held on the Hastings racecourse on Saturday weelc, November 6, aro quite satisfactory, with the exception of the hurdles, for which, had owners foresfeen the recent rains, four or five more would have been entered. When this club was refused permission to race on Labour Day as interfering with the Clive sports meeting, much regret was expressed. However, as Monday was such an unpleasant day, the Waipawa Club would seem to have the laugh on its eide so far. # * * The Hastings trainer J. A. (Jimmie) Gerrand had quite a nice little innings with the brace he took up north for the Auckland trotting meeting. One of his winners, All Bingen, when leading the field home in the opening event was making his first appearance in a race. This gelding has always shown exceptional speed on the local tracks, so that his win was anticipated by quite a few who reaped a good return for their investments, This four-year-old is inbred to the Bingen strain as his sire and dam were both sired by Worthy Bingen,