WAIPAWA MEETING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 39, 9 November 1937, Page 15

WAIPAWA MEETING

"The Barb.")

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A slight increasO ia the totalisator turnover at the Waipawa meeting at Hastings last Saturday must be satisfactory, a^ the dlub was denied its usual holiday date, Laboyf Bay, so fhat its gatierifig Wotild not prejtldice the Farndon Sports meeting. Ho'Wevef, old Jupiter Pluvitis tPok a hand Oxt Labour Day and, this year at any^ rate, the Waipawa folk pr'Ofited eoiisidefabiy by the cftSnge of date fofted upoii tnem. Tite" faeing W&s ehjbyable,- all evbhts, exc'epf the hnrdles, seeing Ver'y elose iinishes% the winning inar'gins fiof beiiig inore than half a letigth. With the Napier Pftfk meeting dated for this week-end, a review of the running on Saturday last.m&y be of interest. The opening event, the Hollycombe Murdles, saw but three face the sfarter, Mr O. Nelson 's Top Hat Winning^ praetically all the way. The big gelding yuifip'ed fauitlessly, accounting in no small measure f6f hie easy victory and giving pfdmifee of further suCtesses to follow. Begorrah Was inaking hard work of it five furlongs from home to' get even with the winner but failed. He is laiiy and perhapS th&d liis ustial pilot, A. W. Lord, been On top the winner Wo>uld have had a harder job, Iddo was very &ore and passing the stands the firsf time it dould plainly be seen that his cfiaiices were pracficaily hil. The hack sprinters Were right up to standard, Fossicker proving the winner_ but by U neck only. He Was Well placod at the" start aird at the half-ihile had rufl up to the leitd With Le ToUqtlet, but When WSlsh foUnd that the paCe was being mad© too het he wisely fell . baek ^to third position^ a lnove that I think- really won the race for the Gis-borne-Owned gelding. He was . jatei: braught out in the open sprint hnd for some uhkhown l'eason Wds eleeted favdurite but, perhajra nofc quite so judicioueiy fiddeu, hfid td be cohtefit with a moderate thifd placing, Felicitation, • runner-up to Fossickef, W'ae ndVer f&r 6ut df it and her defeftt ealle for nd exduses.- GranV'aie 's showlfig, ho-wever. wae disappdintffig,- aftet his reeent second td The Bigot,- whe has eince dofie so W611 at both Trenthaffi and Eideafton. Ham&fin by gettifig fourth did a little better than 'she iias been doing. JOe Lo-Jis scarcely fullillfld expectationS, while Tfailer and Tullamore may ,do better over more ground, Le Touquct may have been made too much use of and with a breather between the half and the quarter-mile inight have run bettef. Geira was made a solid favourite for the five and a-half fuflongs hack evetit. She was about iifth away but inside two furlongs was tnken wide out to the front and evtiii thefd wfls Still kcpt faifly Wido out. Quite poasibly had she been in the hands of a more experienced horseman" she might have troubled the winner, Marsyas, who acted- as runnerup, was ftlwaya handy and once again went down by a narrow margiu on tbo Hastings track. Gasman was riddea tt patienfc race. Half a mile from 'lomo.he was running

in sixfcli , pOSition and froki then-on to the winning post he gradually mUde up leeway and, with a well-tiined nuii, Walsh triumphed by a neck. Son and fieir, to gain third money^ ran a better race tlian he did earlief in the day. Wiiiitangi should improve with the face, as alsd Will Black Frost. The public' had suffifcient faith in H. Young's riding abllity to ilistal Reasdnable hn odds-on favourite fOr the Imperial Maiden Plfete fOf whiCh he drew the outside position of the 17 starters. By the time this big iie'ld had takcn Up their running positions Reaeonable Was tucked in nicely behind the pacemakers and eventrii&lly woil nicely by half a leiiglh. , King's Hope, rutiner-up, paying close on a S'CorO td Win,- Was alSo always well pldced to go. dcrwn to a better horse. Iling's Hope ha-s been trained out dt waimaf&fiia for" Sdt&d timo by hiS joint dwners,- Me§SrS Alf.- ElHngham and Joe Cunn, who.' soem to have gi,ven him ffCatmerit that SgfCed With hini, iTtar Lad r afl an iinprofved face and it should not be long ere he is out of the novice class. Hail© Sdlassie was ia .the picture early but retfred over the business Ond, but should; be benefited by the race. Another that made play fof a while was Oha^ whd eventuUlly finished close up fif'th jtist ahead df Baryill, who ran her best race to date. Golden Memory, by running fdurfh, also showed iniproved fdfm," bht dhde again Jacynth was disappointing as also was Mahutai. The hdtteSt favoufitd df the day,': Royal Minstrel, won the chief event bnt ' had only half a length to Spare at the fmish. He tailed the iield f6f more than half-way. He was then brought up near ; the, leading diviision and with heads turned f or home the field "fanned" out ' allowing him an opening of which he quicldy tddk advaxitfige. For this his rider was carpeted, tfaough to most on- ■ lookers it did not seem a§ if, When he weiit- thfough the gapt any other horse was intetfgred With. ■ Buster Brown seemed to cover a lot of unneCessary grottnd. Had his young ridefj when .striking the front, gone for the rails intstead of being five or six horses out he might have sarved sufB- . cierlt grouhd td win. Soho, though; expected- to do better, finished in third placC. Gay Hunter: is better 6it & yieldifig tfSCk and his 'fourth Wds ab'oiit his best Under the COnditions. Maiiie gfld Pladie ran poorly* TEe foiir fifnners in the Nufsefy f Orrued a procession all the way,- exeeptifig that Merry Simon displaded Laughifig Sdhg fof SeCdiid i U the run home, The winner, Jeanne, wae never headed, biit o£i the shdwing neither she noT any df the dthefs'is V6fy bfilliant tffid on saturday at Napier Park they will find thd oppdsitidn maeh Stiffer. Biana Tetrix had to be withdrftwn on account of contracting a slight ;C0ld.Umpire was the form horse for the amateur ridefs' event and paid a very nice ,pricet though he may have been a little lucky to win as Mr H. Bods did n6t appear to ride Aube with his uSual jjidgment. It was surprising to see Fossicker inStalled favdurite Tor f£d open flyiSg, as Pakanui at 9.0 had in the fh'st placo been ldniently treated by tho handiCdpper and then, dn top Of that, was fidden by an apprentice whose aliowance brought his Weight down to 8.7 in a team of "haeks. " Pakanui was slow away, btit inside a furlong'was seecryl. He w&s al! out to win by a neck. Slippery ran a capital race to beat

all but the Winner, and the old fellow met with a warm reception on returning td scale, though many thOught it was for the winner. Flame Queen, fOr *• maldener, did well to finish fourth in front of Bun Fight and Sif Nigel( 60 at Napier next Saturday in the maiden event may be one to keep close w&tch on. J. W. pfice was the only' tralner to prepare two winners, Gasman and Fossicktjr. Those with a win each were G. W. B. Greene (Top Hat), S. SWiiierd (Reasonable), Mr C. Haldane (Royal Minstrel), J. Sullivan (Jeanne), H.- A. Mofiteith (Ufflpire), and F. W. StOwe (Pakanui). The successfnl horsemen were J. Walsh with two wius and I, Sohloff, H, Young, H, Gilmer S. AndersoU, I. Briggs find Mr S. B, Monteith oue each;