WANGANUI HORSES FOR HASTINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 10

WANGANUI HORSES FOR HASTINGS

KIOSK AND THREE-YEAR-OLD PALETA COMING TO AUCKLAND (Special to THE SUN.) WANGANUI, Monday. "With a large team of Wanganui horses away at Auckland, and likely to be absent from their home tracks for over a month yet owing to the Auckland and Wellington fixtures intervening, it is not surprising that the local tracks bear a rather deserted appearance these days. There are, however, still a few claiming engagements at some of the approaching meetings, to be got ready to uphold the reputation of Wanganui as the best winter track in the Dominion, and within the next few weeks it will be possible to ascertain whether they can carry out that programme. It cannot be gainsaid that there are a couple of promising customers ready in the very near future, and some of the stake-money on the programmes at Hastings, Otakl, and Ellerslie should be put into circulation in Wanganui. With some 20 horses in action at various centres, it would be surprising if the number of successes failed to run into double figures. TEAM FOR HASTINGS W. H. Dwyer is slipping the work into his charges, with a view to having some of them compete at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s spring meeting next Saturday. At the Hastings fixture he has Paleta engaged in what appears to be a weak field in the Hawke’s Bay Guineas, and considering the fact that the LeightonCatalini gelding ran a creditable race in the Eclipse Stakes on the second day of the recent Wanganui meeting, after being stopped in hiss preparation about a week before the Marton gathering, it seems quite justifiable to anticipate that he will play a prominent part in the decision of the event in question. On Thursday morning Paleta was stepped out with Star Area to run six furlongs on No. 1 grass track, and he went well. He was ridden by the light-weight apprentice in Dwyer’s stable, R. E. Smitl , while his companion had as pilot D. C. Watts. The going was in good order, the weather being fine, i hough there was a heavy dew. The first two furlongs took the pair 25 3-5 sec. and the three-furlong peg was left behind in 37 2-ssec, the half-mile taking 50 3-ssec. FINISHED NICELY Then the pace slackened, and the pair came home nicely, to register 1.20 1-5 for the full journey. Paleta, naturally, was in the lead when they completed ti e journey, but it is well known that Star Area is a very lazy customer on the track, and will not do his best; therefore the threequarters of a length margin between the pair at the finish does not discredit the so n of Acre and Star Queen. It should be noted that Star Area claims an engagement in the Spring Handicap at the fiawke’s Bay meeting, and is also among those handicapped for :he Kairanga Handicap at the Manawatu Hunt Club’s fixture on the following Wednesday. That he I will be a starter at the Hastings gathering is as yet dependent on whether he recovers from a slight cough that .tie has at present. STILL MAKES A NOISE A four-furlong task was allotted to Kiosk the same morning, and it was noted that there was a suspicion of a noise when he pulled up. It would he rather unfortunate for the old trouble to be found present in the son of Tea Tray and Rosie Desmond after what gave every indication of being a successful operation. He hopped off on Ills time-making expedition at a good pace, cutting out the initial furlong in 12 3-5. He was flying along over the second, to take 24 4-5 Tor the Quarter, but over the concluding stages 1 e was allowed to run along to register 51 1-5 for the journey. As Kiosk claims engagements in the Plying Hand cap (seven furlongs) and the Epsom Handicap (six furlongs), ; t the Auckland meeting, which commences next Saturday week, it is practically certain that he will accompany Paleta. who still figures in the list for the Great Northern Guineas, and will probably leave on the Tuesday before the meeting, after running in the Hawke’s Bay Guineas. Of course, the trip will depend on how Paleta shapes in the Hawke’s Bay classic. INTERESTING WORK-OUT This morning the three stablemates '■'ere given a run together over six furlongs from a standing start. C. Butler was on Kiosk. D O. Watts had the mount on Paleta, and young Smith piloted Star Area. That the pace was on over the second furlong was indicated by the fact that the quarter was covered in 26 4-5, as compared with t ie 14 4-5 they took to run the initial furlong. The three furlongs took 38 1-5, and they reached the half-mile in 52, coming home well over the last quarter to record 1.19 4-5 fojr the full distance. Paleta and Kiosk, going smoothly, were together nt the finish, with Star Area a couple of lengths away. It will be interesting to see h >w the trio fare in their early engagerr ents. The half-brother to Valicare and Lausanne in Dwyer’s stable Cyrille, by Humbug from Couranta, has been operated on, and when next ho faces the starter will race as a gelding. In the Debutante Stakes at Wanganui the Australian-bred juvenile showed that with a bit more age and experience he may turn out a profitable proposition if his cicky joint stands up to racing,