Hawkes Bay Happenings

NZ Truth, Issue 1293, 18 September 1930, Page 12

Hawkes Bay Happenings

(From "N.Z. Truth's" .Hawkes Bay Rep.) MO harvest was i*eaped by the stay-at-home punter here who followed the locals at Wanganui. - # * # Van Dyke and Cylinder only returned small prices, which soon went back to' the VTommy" with a great deal more to boot over Kahikatoa, My Own, and Co. #' ! #■ '. # In seasons gone past, two particular tracks have cost Bay-ites dear supporting "good things" that have left Hastings— Wanganui and Foxton. -■» * * My Own when she was railed through to Wanganui appeared a little too pretty, so the trip should do her the world of good for future events. * * * Chrysology did not crack it for a win last season as a two-year-old, but he was m a 'place more than once m classics, and so he should justify the support from here m the Avondale Maiden. He has not done a great deal of fast work, but it must be remembered that he is not the sort that requires it. # # * Courtesy, which did not taste defeat last season m her few starts, will not have "the full confidence of H.B. sports m the Champion Hack Plate, as the majority are of opinion that seven furlongs may be as yet just a little too far. > % *, * * Given a dry track, Star Stranger must be very tough m the Avondale Cup. A win for him will mean many here having the first, leg m. ■ .-■# # * Great Charter was one of the members that Ronnie Alexander took to Avondale. So far he has not been asked anything serious on the tracks. * ' ' * * I .Commandant has not a very great task m front 'of him the first, day, as I the opposition m the Swanson is but ordinary. He won at Hastings over five and did not finish toO well. Over a mile he will need to have improved somewhat to run the eight out, but remember he has now a month's more work into him. • # * President Charlie Twist, -when speaking to the annual report of the Napier Park Racing Club, stated that the tracks at .Greenmeadows are second to none m the Dominion. Bet the trainers there will' not confirm that statement. *** , ■ • Vern. Colello has a hurdler of his own which will race as Heartache — the "H" is not silent. •-# . ! # Bill' McKinnon has a fair sort of a maidener named Pewa which will be produced at Hastings next week. . # # * Don Quixote is galloping ,very well on the Ngatarawa private track, and m the Spring Handicap the Saturday after next will be one of the hottest orders of the day. V, * * Lordlike has just recovered from a poisoned foot, and during the let-up put on some beef, so much m fact that he will not be m trim for the Hastings meeting. * '*. ■ # Sympathetic, since racing at the H.B. Hunt Club, has come on like a house afire, and "Jeff's" . Martian three-year-old will keep the maideners busy here next week.