AVONDALE JOCKEY CLUB

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 394, 30 June 1928, Page 6

AVONDALE JOCKEY CLUB

The annual meeting of members of the Avondale Jockey Club is to be held in the Chamber of Commerce, Swanson Street, at 2 p.m. on Tuesday next. There will be an election for the committee. The First Arrival Radiate has arrived at Trentham in charge of J. T. Wade, to fulfil engagements at the Wellington winter meeting. He is the first visitor to arrive. Accommodation at. Trentham is already fully booked up for visiting horses and their trainers anc: attendants. Promising Jumping Recruits The Hawke’s Bay meetings introduced two very useful hack chasers in Rangi Sarto and Matn. Both have a good deal of pact.*, and whereas Matu has had plenty of experience over hurdles, Rangi Sarto has gained his in the hunting field He escaped from his box on Friday night at Hastings and as a result of his escapade received injury which prevented his starting on Saturday. Both Rangi Sarto and Matu should bo worth consideration in their jumping engagements for the remainder, of t ie v inter. New Method According to an Australian writer, George Price took his team from Sydney to Brisbane by sea, despite the cooks strike. The train journey is a long and tiresome one, and Price managed to circumvent the regulations and otherwise by shipping on a coastal steamer as assistant-purser, and taking his horses too. He took with him the Stradbroxe favourite Killarney, Woclita, Bernesk, and Revoir. Killarney finished only fourth in the Stradbroke, but won the New Handicap on the second day. Magdaff won the weight-for-age event, the King’s l late. M. McCarten rode both of them.