RACING.

Matamata Record, Volume VI, Issue 483, 25 October 1923, Page 2

RACING.

, . WIN FOR DAYLIGHT. I | Mr. R. Casey (Waharoa) will have ; (food reason to remember the date I October 22. It was on that day in 1020 that the brood mare Culragnes threw him a colt foal by Day Comet, and exactly three years later the thf> yojngstcv, now known as Daylight, won his first race—the Farmers' Hack Handicap, of six furlongs, at the Waikato Hunt meeting. Ir. addition to the stakes, of £l4O to the ' owner of the winner,' it is said that J much foreign capital came to Mata- : matn as the result of the win. Always in a handy position the Day Comet throp-vear-old came on to win his race at the right end. which fact nnints to him winning further distinction in the near future. Sans Gene, another Waharoa-n\\;ned o"unie. «ime near to winning the Bardowie Hack Handicap at the same meeting, hut hail lo put up with secaihl position. A further profit was shown as thr> result of this performance Mr. W. Casey is the owner of Sil*n+ Kn't-lit.. Mr. J. McSweenev's lviv goldin" - . ran a fro«d race at Hamilton, and it - , is quite on the cards tint a \vi'| will come shortly. He Is noi- :in r-nsv Mrsp to manage, hut is in trend condition and is snowing a fine hurst, of sneed. Other Mntamaln horses. Clencairn. Chessy and Treno Bruce, did not run so prominently, but may not be ready.,