Durf Notes

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 582, 7 February 1929, Page 12

Durf Notes

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"EARLY BIRD"

Wanganui Acceptances Acceptances for the first day of the Wanganui meeting next week close to-morrow night. Te Aroha Fixture Acceptances for the first day of the Te Aroha meeting close at 5 p.m. on Monday with the secretary ai Te Aroha, or at the same time with Messrs. Blomfield and Coy., High Street, Auckland. The fixture is to open on Saturday of next week, and conclude on the following Monday. Te Aroha is a progressive club, and its gatherings are numbered among the most popular outside of Auckland city. Racing at Rotorua The fields to be seen out at Rotorua on Saturday are good all round, and the sport promises to be very entertaining The fixture will be continued on Monday. Excursion fares will be avilable from Friday. One for Wanganui One of the most improved hurdlers in the: Taranaki province is Glengariff. He did well at the holiday meetings, and with any sort of luck would have won a race at the recent Egmont meeting:. On the second day he was only beaten a head after having to come from much too far back. He is not in at New’ Plymouth on Thursday, but will be seen out at Wanganui next week, and the distances of the hurdle races there will suit him better than those over which he raced at Hawera. He should win a hurdle race before the autumn meetings end. Atareria had to be given a good hiding to get him to win the hurdle race on the second day at Hawera, and then he was lucky to beat Glengariff. However, his present trainer has done something toward reforming him and he might go on now and run more reliably than he has done i in the recent past. Built for Speed Banket showed a lot of speed in her races at Hawera, but inability to stay robbed her of a chance of a stake. The New Plymouth course will suit her better than the Hawera track did, and there is just a chance that she wall win a race there, though the opposition is not easy. Callapat has not stopped winning yet. He begins well and that assisted him at Hawera, where he got out smartly on the rails in the Juvenile Handicap and was never headed. He did not have an easy task and stuck to his job in pleasing style. His Next Appearance Commendation, who has now b.een back in work some time, will make a reappearance in the open six-furlong event at Woodville, he being this centre’s one representative therein.

Two For Rotorua AN'. Townsend will leave for Kotorua by the express on Friday morning with Haviland and King Dong. Both are reported to be in fine fettle for their engagements at the Rotorua Racing Club’s meeting, and a winning bracket for one of the pair cannot be too much to expect. Improving Performer Eager Rose is doing little in tiie nature of fast work at Ellerslie just now, for she claims no immediate engagements. Probably her next outing will be in the Franklin Cup early in March, and for the next fortnight she will be restricted to easy exercise. The present condition she is in is a credit to Trainer Kemp, and he will be most unlucky to capture a good stake with the chestnut before the end of the season. A Maiden

J. AY. Cathro has Hiata # engaged at Rotorua in the AVaimangu Stakes, and this maiden performer can be expected to make a good showing, or better. He is a promising sort, but trained at Avondale, not a great deal is known as to how he has progressed in recent months. In Two Places

Macroom’s latest efforts would lead one to the opinion that she is improving all the time, and for that reason her racing programme for tbe next few weeks will claim more than the usual attention. M. J. Carroll took Raganelli down to New Plymouth for the

Stakes there on the scond day, but he has Macroom engaged in* the sprint to-day, and also in both the principal races at Rotorua on Saturday. Possibly Macroom will be reserved for Rotorua. Ding Dong! While at Pukekolie some time Lack the writer’s attention was directed to a three-year-old named Ding Dong, who is under the supervision of W. Townsend. It is interesting to note that the son of Quin Abbey and Bouvardia (he is thus a half-brother to Barometer, Micrometer and Alonsoa) is to make his initial ‘a.p;v s under

silk at the Rotorua meeting on Saturday in the Hot Springs Handicap. This is by no means a good field, and as it is m understood that Ding I>r>ng has all the family speed his chances cannot be despised. Show Promise

One of the pick of the hacks about Taranaki is Havering. He is a fairsized gelding by Quin Abbey from Dreamer, and has a nice turn of speed. He was well backed to win a hack sprint at Hawera, but encountered Knightlike at the top of his form and was beaten by-a small margin. Kniglitlike got the better run d¥ the pair from the turn home, and that was how he defeated the ex-AVaikato hack. Havering should not be passed over lightly in his fothcoming engagements. A smart sprinter seen out at the Hawera meeting is Airway who received an unlucky run on the opening day and came out and won the second day. All the track watchers had a good word for Airway who is inexperienced and will improve quite a lot. She is by Tree Lucerne out of Flying AVind, and is trained by M. Conway. A Bit Far

A mile and a-half is rather far for Bright Glow, and for that reason anyone who backed her to-day in the Taranaki Cup took a risk that was not justified by her recent running, despite the result of to-day’s race. She is a good mare, but a mile and a-quarter seems to be far enough for her. Of course, on a turning track like that at New Plymouth and in a slow-run race she might come home, but investors were hardly justified in reckoning on these possibilities. For Ten Furlongs

Mendip ran good races with 11. Goldfinch in the saddle at Hawera. It is not often that he has received much assistance from his pilot. He did not see out the mile and a-half journey of the Egmont Cup, but he should be very useful at a middle distance. "When you see Mendip in a ten-furlong race in a field that is not strong, be a bit friendly toward him, but make sure that he has a horseman aboard. He is one of the sort that needs a. good man on top. Got Into Tro.uble Reremoana was badly interfered with during the running of the Flying Handicap at Hawera on the first day of the Egmont meeting, and that affected liis chance of winning. A horse —even a good one like Reremoana—cannot be stopped with that much weight on and then be expected to come again and win. All the same, he might not have beaten Lady Quex with the best of runs. There was over two and a-half stone difference in the weights, and the Lord Quex filly is so smart round the turns that she wbuld have been very hard to reach. It is now mentioned that Reremoana was rather upset by incidents in the race at Hawera and there is just a chance that he might not run at New Plymouth, where it was hoped that he would be seen out in the Taranaki Stakes, a race in which he was unlucky to be beaten by The Hawk a year ago. A Useful Pair

Blimp and Home Made, two Manawatu representatives who went through to the Egmont meeting, did not find the trip 1 altogether fruitless, the former running second to Bright Glow in the Tonks Stakes at Hawera, while the Thurnham gelding attended Llanore home in the Nolail Gold Cup. Thp pair have been nominated for Wanganui and have both been allowed in at the minimum. AVhile the distance might find him out, it would not be surprising to find Blimp at home on the sandy going at Wanganui.

May Prefer Wanganui Two members of G. New’s stable in Grand Aero and Lucky Bag have been entered for the Petre Handicap at Wanganui, the former being weighted at 8.7 and his companion at 7.10. Both made the trip through to Trentham, but save a second to Moorgas—a former inmate of the stable —Grand Acre did not again figure in a stakewinning capacity, while Lucky Bag proved disappointing. The more circular Wanganui course should suit Lucky Bag better. A third Awapuni representative figuring in the Petre Handicap is Shining Star, who will form on© of H. Doyle’s team for the West Coast (5.1.) trip next month. This mentor lias found the coastal owners free purchasers of his team members in the past, and it is not improbable that the Star Stream gelding will likewise find a new home conditional on a suitable figure being offered. * Over the Battens

Two interesting nominations for the jumping event on the opening day at Woodville are Wilderness and Wyeford. The former, who is subject to bleeding, showed a recurrence of his old trouble both days at Foxton, but came through his outings at Pahiatua without apparent ill effect. Although he has some knowledge of the jumping game, he is still in the. novice stages. ACAshliurst Cold Air made his debut over the battens and now L. Knapp promises to present yet another from his stable in Wyeford. The latter, who is also a member of the Warplane family, has shown a good turn of speed over a short distance, he getting on the winning list at Woodville in December. It seems, however, a little early to expect him to make good in the jumping branch. In Sydney

The well-pej'fornled New Zealand two-year-old Nedda has arrived in Melbourne in charge of J. Fielder, once one of {Sydney’s foremost riders. Out of Luck

E. George was very unfortunate over l-lipo last week. He had come through his racing at Takapuna well, and at 11 o’clock on Friday he accepted for him in the Tonks Stakes, but on his arrival at the stable he found that the son of Potoa was lame. To add to things Melissa cut her leg and has had to be eased up in her work. Getting Cheaper Sold at Koatanui in 1926 as a yearling, the full brother to Thespian realised 2.250 guineas before a Melbourne sportsman got him. Now Farrago, a disappointment, was sold again' last spring for SOOgns and is now owned by the sportsman who races as Mr. “A. W. Wooliscroft.” This owner's colours have not been seen in public for two or three years. Farrago is trained by W. Leyshon, and is engaged in the Oakleigh Plate and the Newmarket Handicap. Mr. “Wooliscroft” won the Australian Cup with Defence, and also captured good races with Llanthony, Sabloneeti, and Froth and Bubble. In Farrago he will have a worthy representative at the autumn carnival. Taranaki Stakes A Taranaki writer is responsible for the following:—Accommodation has been booked for Gascony, and the recent rains will make his starting in the Taranaki Stakes on Saturday almost a certainty. He will be ridden by J. Barry- Roy ~ Reed will probably be found on Lady Quex in the same race. L». G. Morris will pilot Pagandli, and FT. Goldfinch on Blanore, should she start. The two-year-old Monoloff, who claims an engagement in the Stakes, showed a glimpse of form on Saturday when he filled third position behind Valpre and Becky Sharp. He was not too well placed at the turn, but his finishing effort was full of dash, and a race should come his way before long. He is by Sasanof's half-brother, Daniloff, from Monaghan.