Future of Hynanna

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 284, 21 February 1928, Page 10

Future of Hynanna

IS HE BEING RESERVED FOR GREAT AUTUMN? (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, To-day. One of the best handicap horses in commission at the present time is Hynanna, and it is a matter of considerable interest where he will next make his appearance on the turf. Hynanna distinguished himself last season Dy running a good race behind Commendation at Trentham, but the race seemed to do him harm and he was not seen at his best for a while afterwards. He seems to be better than ever this season, and in his last three starts he has led his fields home. He did not look thoroughly ready when lie won at the Wellington summer meeting, but in a good finish he defeated Thorndale and a useful field* Next he took on the Egmont Cup and that he won with consummate ease. He followed the Egmont victory with a win in the Taranaki Cup and again he was not greatly troubled to lead the field home.

It was expected that he would contest the Wanganui (’up and that he would win the race, but he was withdrawn. The reason /or the withdrawal has not been announced, but probablv it is that his trainer thinks there are more valuable and more suitable races ll ? 1S autumn * without sending him the long mile and threequarter au, *f ey ov e r which the Wanganui Cup K?f PeClally as the stake is not a fcavifhn!? ? D f and Ule weifirht would nave had to lump was 9.11.

*il e^ eieht is not one that his party •ould have tiiKen exception to. No ex2?;i!n^ ed „ handicapper could have £ ive P_him less, and had he started he £ouid have been favourite. Moreover it looked as if he would have won

The question everyone is asking is why he has been allowed to forfeit the engagement. The answer must be —unless the horse has gone wrong—that he is being reserved for some of the big prizes that are to be won in the autumn. Perhaps he would take on the Great Autumn Handicap, at Riccarton, at Easter, if he gets into the race at a reasonable weight. He goes a mile and a~half so good that the raec would suit him well.

During tin* New Plymouth meeting Hynanna’a rider, R. J. Mackie, dislocated a. knee, and the fact that the regular pilot was not available might rave had a little to do with the decision to withdraw him from immediate engagements*.