Jumping Season Is Now At Hand

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 349, 9 May 1928, Page 10

Jumping Season Is Now At Hand

INORTHERN CANDIDATES AT HAWERA THE honour of launching what is termed the jumping season has for some time been entrusted to the Egmont Racing Club, and the fact that its winter meeting opens to-morrow and concludes on Saturday is a reminder, if such were needed, of the near approach of the Great Northern meeting.

\ GOOB number of horses from this ■*-*- province will be on hand at Hawera, and in addition several candidates for Great Northern honours will be seen in action over the obstacles. Thus local sportsmen have a doublebarrelled interest in the proceedings at the Taranaki centre to-morrow and on Saturday. Most of the events have filled very well, although the nominations showed a substantial decrease over previous years. In the two steeplechase events the fields are a bit on the small side, which is not an unusual feature. The big fences are located on the outside of the course proper, excepting across the top, where the horses go right out as at Te Rapa. The fences are by no means formidable, but the course can

j and it will be of interest to know that his fencing has improved. Passin’ Through has registered some surprising performances on this track, and is a possibility, for he will stick it out. That grand jumper Puwhero will carry a lot of money, for he is well forward, and probably the best fencer in the country at present. Brigadier Bill has don© well in recent schooling, after being uncertain at his first attempt, and is one of the fancied division. Dick will want a race or two, and Bonny Rill also. Gilgai is a pretty safe conveyance at any time. The field is completed with Haeremai, of whom little is known. The nine left in the race will probably all see the post, and in an interesting contest the favourites will no doubt be PUWHERO and