GOSHAWK'S WIN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 23 November 1927, Page 2

GOSHAWK'S WIN

AT CANTERBURY PARK. Writing after the Canterbury Park (Sydney) meeting held last Saturday week “Poseidon” has the following in the “Sun” :— Just as J. .M Cameron’s old champion The Hawk is slipping down the hill he has got hold of another horse that is likely to keep the same bird family prominently in front of the public. A good deal has been written about the appropriately-named and beauti-fully-bred Goshawk (Magpie—FadeIma) and great expectations have been built up around him. Thev were reflected at Canterbury, where the bookmakers demanded that, the odds be laid on the four-year-old. Backers were not at al| diffident about accommodating them and among their bets were £6OO to £lOO on. £350 to £2OO on (twice) £3OO to £270 on, and 3‘«o to £l6O on. Those who had thus shown their confidence in Cameron’s judgment did not have a moment’s anxietv. They ouieklv saw that Goshawk was a Triton among minnows. He was never pushed as he lobbed along in front of the field, an.i came in n comfortable winner. What he would have done if he had been challenged cun only be surmised. Goshawk has now won twice in four starts in second-rate company. Ho can he tried in better class at Rand wick next Saturday, but whether be will run is not certain ns he is duo to sail for New Zealand on November 25. when Cameron nroposes to leave for home with flip idea in his mind of * running his horses st the Dominion I Christmas meetings. j Goshawk’s trainer was hobbling I about on a stick at Canterbury yes- | terday. and his man v Sydney friends i were, glad to see him. Cameron is still weak after his bout with nneu*rnpnia. hut he was manifestly brighter after Goshawk's win. The pat.ched-up New Zealand bred Director (Nassau— Culrossi confirmed recent form by finishing in front of his rivals, who were a very poor lot. [Gospawk was. of course, shipped away before this Riindwick meeting an ( | is no doubt by this time at his temporary Ellerslie quarters. It may be added that Goshawk is now motherless, his dam Fadelmn having died two weeks ago at the Kia Ora Stud, a serious loss io' its owner, Mr. Percy Miller.] DIVOTS. Dug by “The Delver.” First day acceptances for Feilding are due to-morrow (Thursday) at 8.30 p.m. Nominations for Dunedin and for Taumarunui have to be in by Friday. *' * * The New Plymouth trainer E. George arrived at Auckland on Monday with Mint Leaf, Nagtori and Hipo, who are to fulfil their engagements at the Takapuna meeting. Their Hawera trainer, O. Cox, is quoted by an exchange ag saying it was very unlikely that he would take Reremoana, Lady Cavendish, and Lady Desmond to the Auckland summer meeting. The form of the team at Riccarton had not come up to expectations, and their Christmas engagements would be at Manawatu.

The Solferino gelding Solferite, who showed good form towards the close of last season and at the beginning of this, has given his trainer a lot of anxiety of late with trouble to one of his legs, and it has been decided to blister him and spell him in the paddock until after the New Y’ear meetings. • • • Crown Area, who has been more or less off colour this spring, and in con, sequence could run only in the Stewards’ Handicap at the New Zealand Cup meeting, is now getting on well. It is understood, however, that he will forgo his Auckland engagements at Christmas and race at the Manawatu meeting. • « • The Humbug—Lone Gull gelding Decoy Bird, who has passed from the ownership of Mr. A. B. Williams to that of the Wellington sportsman Dili. A. H. Gilmer, and is now trained at Trentham by J. McLaughlin, did not make a very auspicious first appearance under his new colours when he started ill the open six-furlong race at Levin, as he is reported as having raced at the tail end of the field throughout. • » • A Christchurch exchange says that Magna Charta has rejoined the active workers at Riccarton, and that the big son of King John bears a promising appearance alter his let-up. If he gets through a satisfactory preparation he may accompany Count Cavour and Satrap to the Auckland Summer Meeting. • » • T. Metcalf, whose removal from the South to the North Island was mentioned a day or two ago, made a happy beginning in his new sphere, of action. His first rille was at Levin on Bissac, whom ho duly landed a winner. • * • The well-knowwn handicapper. Mr. J. E. Henr.vs, who has been spending a few months abroad, is at present in San Francisco on his wav back to New Zealand. It was Mr. Henrys’ intention to have, been a passenger by the Miiknra, which arrived from San Francisco on Monday, hut he is detained there by the serious illness of

his daughter. If Miss Henrys is sufficiently recovered, Mr. Henrys intends to return to New Zealand by the next steamer from Vancouver.

An onlooking Wellington writer says that Desert Lad, the three-year-old gelding by Acre from Inno Laddo (not Miro Laddo as niispi’inetd in yesterday’s notes), who scored in the Maiden Race at Levin on Saturday, put up an impressive performance, lor he was giving the leaders a long start when they had settled down. R. Reed rode him very skilfully. Of course, he had >the horse with which to fulfil the task, but altogether it was an accomplished feat of horsemanship. inno Laddo, the dam of Desert Lad, is b.v Sir Laddo from Mamoxata, a mare by Torpedo, bred by the late Mr. W. Douglas. Inno Laddo was only a moderate performer herself, but the mating with Acre has to all appearance resulted in somathing very promising in Desert Lad.

Baldowa’s return to winning form, writes “Sentinel” in the Dunedin “Tinies,” recalls Mr. Bert Stiven's story about the Balboa gelding’s foalhood days. Mr. Stivens informed the writer that, as a foal Baldowa was such a miserable-looking specimen of the equine race that a friend suggested hitting him on the head with an axe. Baldowa was reared mi ■

bottle on a patent food, and as his nurse was Mrs Stivens she got this youngster as a present for her trouble. That is how Balboa is raced in Mrs. Stivens’s nomination.

Though New Zealand’s champion Limerick has had some strenuous racing during the spring, he is not to be given a spell in the paddock. However, he will not be asked to <lo any serious work for a while, his trainer’s intention being to potter him about for a month or so, and then prepare him lot, another assault upon the rich weight-for-age races in Sydney in the autumn. Limerick did not compete at the Victoria spring meetings, but it is probable that Melbourne racegoers will get a ehmpse of him in action in the autumn.

Tn the spring Limerick suffered only one defeat at weight-for-age, and it was the English horse Pantheon who brought about the defeat of Canterbury's idol. However, the Australian weight-for-age races will be much harder to win at the coming meetings, for besides strong opposition from Sydney. Limerick will he pitted against the best of Melbourne’s cracks, including tile dual Derby and Melbourne Cup winner, Trivalve, and the English importation Silvius, Trivalve's mei'otoiious victory in the Melbourne Cup has won h : m great fame, and has led some critics to believe that he is as good as the A’alais colt, Manfred, who was defeated in tho Melbourne Cup of 1925 by the doughty Magnie horse Windbag. Trivalve’s performances make him out a very formidable opponent for the best of the weight-for-age i nines in the autumrt. nnd a meeting hetv.eeu vhe sons of Cykloii and of Limotiii smild lis a big draw.

It is some time since we heard anything of the Boniform—Papiiia mare Oreforin, who won some races round Sydney last season. She returned lo the winning list last week at the Rosebery meeting, the event coming her wav being the third division ol the Flying Handicap.

Paphia, the dam of Oreform. by the way, is a Birkenhead mare bred by the late Hon J. D. Ormond at Karamu, and a glance at her pedigree affords, on the female side, a fine lesson in turf nomenclature—Paphia. by Birkenhead from Anhrodite. by Apremont from Watersprite, by Traducer from Waterwitch, bv Camden from Mermaid. It would be hard to find a better succession of suggestive namings in any volume of our Stud Book. But the poor resourceless I' How that christened Oreform has made a bad break in the pleasant sequence.

In Melbourne recently Mr. T. M. Burke—who will be remembered here as the unfortunate purchaser of Wassail—sold 51 of his racehorses by auction tor an aggregate of over 16,000 guineas, but a number still remain to carry his colours, and in Adelaide last week he was successfully represented by Alternation in a division of the Juvenile Handicap at Victoria Park.

G. Young rode Pilliewinkie in all his recent races at Flemington, but on his return to Sydney expressed himself as rather disappointed at the old fellow's almost total loss of his one-time dash, and is of opinion that it is doubtful whether Pilliewinkie will ever win another race.

According to a Sydney paper just to hand Merry Mint, after his exertions nt Flemington, had not done very well and was again showing trouble in one of his legs. It is to be hoped that this will disappear and permit of a sound preparation of the Catmint gelding for his Christmas undertakings at Ellerslie.

The Cad (Lucknow—Stage Girl), who won the nursery eVent at the Caulfield November meeting last Saturday week, is one of the most consistent two-year-olds seen in Australia this season, He cost but 300 guineas as a yearling and his win at Caulfield brought his total stake earnings to £1727. In his five starts he has been unplaced only once. His dam was a winner of the V.R.C. Oaks, and Ambassador (bv Pt. Anton), another of her progenywas also a winner at the fixture just mentioned.

Mr. Otway Fnlkiner is receiving some rewards for his enterprise i>i purchasing Ungazzo for 3000gns. after that colt had won a couple of two-year-old races in Adelaide in rhe spring of 1926. Mr Falr-.iiier nur-r-hnsed The Banker in New Zealand Inst year for 3000gns., and with that gelding he won the Balaclava Stakes, the Herbert Power Stakes nnd tho V.it.C Handicap. He purchased the hio-li.priced yearling King Davi.i for 2(ilX)gns., but that horse has yet to miike Ins mark on the turf.

The biggest stake-winner at two and three years old in Australia was Rampion, who earned £26.484 10/-. Next comes Heroic, £24,543 10/'l Trivalve a close third, with £24.515. With the autumn engagements ahead of him, it is more than witnin the realms of possibility that bv the end of his three-year-old period Trivalve will come out on ton as the best two and three-year-old performer that has been foaled in the Southern Hemisphere.

The wonderful stamina of the Melbourne Cup winner Trivalve, says a Sydney writer, has been attributed to the fact that his dam, Trey, returned a strain of Carbine blood co Cvklon, a grandson of Ob l Jack. In these circumstances. Mr. Perov Miller is probably closely examining the pedigrees of The Welkin mares ho has at Kia Ora to find those with a strain of Carbine blood in them, with the object of mating them with Spethorne. the Spearmint horse imported bv him a few months ago Mr Miller has had no reason to lose his great faith in The Welkin mares as stud matrons, and it would be crowned if he could breed a Trivalve. After an unsuccessful trip to Melbourne, which contrasted vivullv with that of the corresponding carnival two years ago. when ho won the Cup with Windbag. G. Price has returned to Sydney says the same writer. Price, however, experienced bad luck with two members of bis team. Winalot went off. probably because of his developing slight soreness, after his splendid battle with Trivalve in the A.. 1 C Derby, and the two-year-old Ramulus, brother to Rampion and winner of the A.J.C. Breeders’ Plate, cast a plate during the running of the Maribyrnong Plate. The remaining member of Price’s team, Kawhetii, wa s not good enough. U inalnt is to be offered for auction sale by H. Chisholm and Co. on November 28.