DOUBLE WINNERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1023, 14 July 1930, Page 12

DOUBLE WINNERS

HYMESTRASON AND COON SONG R. E. HATCH’S SUCCESS Through the agency of Hymcstrason and Coon Song, Awapuni trainer R. E. Hatch was right in the limelight at the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting, both these horses scoring a double. Hymestrason, who won both hack steeplechases at Trentham last week, showed promising cross-country form at the Wanganui winter meeting, and was expected to race well at the Auckland meeting, but went lame after schooling one morning and could not be started at the fixture. Hymestrason, who was bred by Mr. W. R. Kemball in 1922, is by Ilymestra (sire of Hynanna and Miss Ransom) from the Formative mare Native Lady, and has been raced extensively since he was a two-year* •Id. At the end of his two-year-old career, after he had contested IB races for two seconds and two thirds, lie was sold to Mr. A. A. Cameron, for whom lie won two hack races and then consistently failed. lie came into the hands of his present owner-trainer, R. E. Hatch, as a four-year-old practically as a gift, but Hatch, too, could do nothing l ight with him till he decided to jump him, and at his first attempt he won the Rata Hack Hurdles from Mister Gamp at the Wangamii winter meeting in 1928. He succeeded in only two more poor-quality hurdle fields, and then was put ’to the brushes, a department with which he appeals to have made most success. Hymestrason has had no easy career, for he has contested 7B races in his six seasons for seven wins, seven seconds, and eight thirds. He has won £1,210 in stakes, of which £943 has been for his present owner. Coon Song’s Double

Coon Song, as \v*ell as Hymestrason, has won a double for Hatch. Coon Song is pwned by Mr. A. P. Easton, who gave the Foxtom trainer F. P. Oarmont a good return on the 140 guineas’ bid for him at the 19528 Trentham t-ales. Coon Song has always shown a Jot of pace in his races, and last season, when trained by G. N. New, he won the Debutant Stakes at Woodville.

After that he appeared to lose all form, but now that he has struck it again so definitely he should be worth watching for some time. This tliree-year-old is bred to gallop fast, being by Hunting Song from Sangfroid, a halfsister by Polydam on to that good sprinter Royal Blood. Sangfroid herself is from an outside family, but she brings in good winning strains through Sylvia Park, her maternal grandsirc. RACING FIXTURES JULY 19—Waimate District Hunt. , 17, 19—Gisborne R.C. 26—South Canterbury Hunt. 31—August 2 —Alanawatu R.C. Winter. OCTOBER 3. 4—Marlborough R.C. 4—Napier F’ark R.C. 4 Kurow J.C. 4, 6—Auckland R.C. 9, 11— Dunedin J.C. 11— Otaki Maori R.C. 16, 18—South Canterbury J.C. » 18—Masterton R.C. 25, 27—Waikato R.C. (or Nov. 15, 17). 25.. 27—Wellington R.C. 27—Waikato Hunt (Cambridge). 27—Waverley R.C. 27.—Walpawa County. 27 North Canterbury R.C. 27. 29—Gore R.C. 30. Nov. I—Poverty Bay T.C. NOVEMBER i Banks Peninsula R.C. I—Carterton R.C. 5 Birch wood Hunt. 6, B—Whangarei R.C. 8. 10. 12, 15—Canterbury J.C. 13, 15 —Dargaville R.C. 19, 20—Win ton J.C. 22—Levin R.C. 22, 24—Te Kuitl R.C. 29. Dec. I —Takapuna J.C. 23. Dec. I—Feilding J.C. TROTTING FIXTURES NEW SEASON. Dates applied for. August 9 13. 10—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. September 6—New Brighton T.C. October 4—Methven T.C. October IL—Waikato T.C. October 18—New Brighton T.C. October 25. 27—Greymouth T.C. October 25. 27—Auckland T.C. October 27—Northland T.C. October 27—Oanaaru T.C. November 1 Wellington T.C. November 11. 13. 14—N.Z. Metropolitan T.C. November *l, 22 Nelson T.C. November 22. 26—Otahuhu T.C. November 27, 29 Forbury Park T.C. December 13—New Brighton T.C. December 20—Hawke’s Lay T.C. December 26—Ashburton T.C. December 26—Gore T.C. December 26. 27—Westport T.C. December 26. 27—South YVairarapa T.C. December 27. 30, 31 —Auckland T.C. December 30—Win ton T.C. December 31.—Inancahua T.C.