Hawkes Bay Happenings

NZ Truth, Issue 1263, 13 February 1930, Page 14

Hawkes Bay Happenings

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Hawkes Bay Rep.) DRAVO, The Hawk, m his Taranaki Cup victory. The gallant old Martian gelding surprised the Bay's populace. Nevertheless, all were only too ready to say hooray. • • * Jack Cameron has been racing for many years, (but this is the first occasion he has won a cup trophy, and quite fitting it should foe per' medium of his "Old Champion." * • "' • One individual here when the result came through could not say enough anent the above victory or The Hawk's prowess. Oh, no, he was not a punter, but a winneT, nevertheless, over the victory. * # * Head Serang is to take to open company from, now on, and will very soon 'show that his running on the second and third day at Trentham was not. 'according to -what he can really do. # # * Shrewd has now had a fairly good go at town hall company, and, having failed at the minimum weight, can be voted not up to such. Races like Foxton, Ashhurat and Pahiatua may have seen him more than paying his way. # * # White Fang has not done much since Trentham, and has m consequence built up. Woodville and Dannevirke should see him breaking his run since the C.J.C. Stewards win. # . . * « . Maunga is m work again, and though you may not believe it, has had the sweaters on. Will Miss Douglas's gelding win a big 'un this jumping season? " * • * Torkie Barry is breaking in N a young full . brother to Kaikotoa — the first yearling to go through his initial pacings m the district. A big, lean colt, he is just the sort that one would have predicted giving time to. * • * Nea Lap (the younger full sister to Phar Liap) is not doing a great deal of toil, and on that she Is not to accompany Cameron's team to Sydney m the autumn, that is if "Cam" is really going.

Goshawk is only pottering about and it is safe to say he will not race again m New Zealand before going across the Tasman. # * # A one-horse show, Hunting Cry, the only animal raced by T. Fraser, has placed his owner on top of the winning list for the first six months' racing. Thus the Bay at present heads the list, but we have many also at the other end. # # # Hunting Cry's two-year-old brother ■will race as Merry Cry. His first public outing may be at Woodville. # * * ■ . Singleton, despite his heavy impost was not hard pushed to win the Gisborne Gold Cup. # « * • High Court, the local prad, at the difference m weights was considered likely to down '"Gold Top,'' but did not have the necessary kick. " # . * # • * Te Awha followed up . her dual victoTy at Wairoa toy annexing the Hack Gold Cup up the coast. A really good little second-rater, and as honest as the sun. Her third behind High Court at a difference of only two pounds last Saturday was her ibest to date. # # # Outside one or two racing at. Gisborne last week, the class was deplorably poor. A glance at one or two of the winners bears this "' out. '. # * . * Billie Turnbull, one of the best sports on this coast, leading m three winners, fully deserves the Congrats, offered, especially when he won with that arch-rogue Dimmer. # .* # Keen is not as keen as ownertrainer Joe Lawry, and the King Mack gelding would be far better following some other vocation. Worse luck he is not a black. # # # Essential won both the highweights, the second day with eleven stone. Good luck to Alfie Tricklebank, who trains and rides him. % #* • # Woodville next Wednesday and Thursday. The following localites should show up at the gathering: Lordlike, White Fang, Cloyne, Grattus (Hack Cup), Jenny Diver and Head Serang.