RACING NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 147, 23 June 1928, Page 15

RACING NEWS.

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES

(By WHALEBONE.)

FIXTURES. u t June 30— Asbburton County Racing Club. T Jim* 30, July » —Te Kuitl K.C. (at Ellerslie). July U. 1-. 14—Wellington Racing Club. J u jy jo—Wnlmate Hunt. lulf 21—South Canterbury Hunt Club. July W. -B—Glsborne Racing Club. c 1 ANSWERS to correspondents. > 1; WAGER—At the Auckland autumn t meeting on April 3, 1915, J. Buchanan rode five winners on the opening dav. He won on Royal Irish. (Tradesmen's I i Handicap), Arran (Champagne I Stakes), Merry Roe (Easter Handi- j cap), Hyginas (Onslow Stakes), and r Hoy (Eden Handicap). a M.P. (Ponsonby).—Wedding March was * scratched for the Great Northern Steeplechase at 10.45 a.m. on the day of the race. ij Messrs. F. J. McMnnemin. handicap- P per, and R. Porter, owner of Mosiac, and a W. H. Jones, jockey, who is to reiside ! ia Australia, left for Sydney yesterday. * Patukl Is running consistently. He * won a double at the Hawke's Bay Hunt meeting and yesterday finished second to Atercria, whom he beat on Wedn*3- I day. 1 i Singleton was started at the Hawke's J Bay Hunt Club meeting and ran fourth , after coming from a long way back in c the Horonui flack Handicap. He k a 1 pretty useful sort when right and it is expected that his turn will come shortly. Rahepoto, who had to be spelled a J short time back, is on the improve , again. He has not had any schooling over the big fences for vreeks; still ' he has done a fair amount of work on . the flat and will soon be at his best •gain. : Our Jack shaped promisingly at the Wanganui meeting and also ran well ' in the Apley Hurdles at the Hawke's Bay Hunt meeting. Yesterday he finished third to Atereria and Patuki, and ' he looks as though he may get a stake before the season is concluded. ! i The Solferino gelding Muscari is being J kept going at Ellerslie and will be a starter at the approaching Te Kuiti meeting. Muscari has not shown up during his last half dozen starts and is unlikely to be in great demand until he 1 displays signs of improvement in his ' races." [ Serang is reported to be training on well at Avondale and may be given • run at the Te Kuiti meeting. This goodlooking chestnut has been a very dis- ' appointing performer during the present • season, and until he shows some im- J provoment tho public are Jilsely tOr,lft 1 him run against tKwn. 1 If King Amans is produced in tlie Pio Pio Hurdles he is likely to keep the opposition busy, for he is a good jumper and will be suited by the distance. He has not had a race for some little while, but Geo. Reid understands the chestnut gelding and can be relied on to turn him •ut in the right condition. Of late most of Sir Archie's tasks have ken confined to the sand track, but with the near approach of the Te Kuiti meeting he will be doing his share of speeding up on the grass. The big chestnut is looking well and may make •mends for his failure at the Northern meeting when he next appears in public. Eager Rose, the half-sister to Town Guard, is getting through plenty of work at headquarters and has improved in condition. She has not had agreat amount of racing and possibly will not ba seen at her best until next season. She is due to make her next appearance in hack races at Ellerslie during the coming week. Since Restaurant showed encouraging form at the Avondale meeting, where she ran a second and third among the hack class, she has failed badly in her three subsequent starts. She is not by any means a big filly, and the welter weights that she is now required to race under will not be in her favour during the remainder of the season. Catkin is stated to he training on in good style at Trentham. He is entered for the open sprint races at the Wellington winter meeting, and it would not surprise to find him securing some stakemoney during that meeting. Like most of the Catmint family, he is partial to a soft track, which is invariably in evidence at Trentham during the winter months. That good sprinter Hoariri, who is in fcis element when the tracks are heavy, Js standing up to his work in first-rate ityle. He was given a run over four furlongs at Ellerslie last Thursday morning and recorded the beet gallop over that particular distance. He is hardening up in condition and is_ a possibility for a sprint event at any time now that the going is soft. Karamu, who is at the present time located at Birkenhead, will fulfil his engagement in the King Country Hurdle Race to be run on the second day of the Te Kuiti meeting. The bay gelding is doing the bulk of his preparation around the roads and on the hills. He has freshened up a good deal since racing at "the Auckland winter meeting, and with the going at all favourable Karamu can be depended on to run a good race. The local 'chaser Kamehameha, who is not engaged on the first day of the Te Kuiti meeting, is included in the entries for the King Country* Hurdle Race and the Maniapoto Steeplechase on the second day of that fixture. His winning effort in the Green Lane Steeples was quite promising for a beginner over country, and aa he appears to have done well since then he should reward D. P. Moraghan with further stake-money before the end of the present season. The form shown by Marble King when ba scored in the Pitaroy Handicap at the Auckland winter meeting was daeidedly good. He was never far away from the division, while over the last furlong his finishing effort soon settled the opposition, and be wen comfortably. Marble King is in at the minimum in open events *t the Te Kuiti meeting, and if he has made any headway at all he should be capable of putting up a good performance, lor bab a

Royal Tea was shipped to Sydney yesterday. This horse did fairly well an* h6 £ Iri1 r i id f on a P revi °ua visit, and he should do better on this occasion! It did not take Atereria long tcrmake good over hurdles. In his first attempt at the Hunt Club meeting on Wednes.t 7 ill ran Becond and yesterday won the Whakatu -Hurdles at the Hawked Bay Jockey Club's meeting. Matu, prior to leaving Trentham to compete at the Hawke's Bay meetin?, had been schooling well at Trentham. Yesterday, when started in the Woodlands Hack Steeplechase he finished third and can be expected to do better. Troilus wm stated to be doing well in his schooling work prior to leaving Hawera for Hastings to compete at the Hawkes Bay meeting. Yesterday he ran third in the Hawke's Bay Hurdles and the race should improve him. He has engagements at the forthcoming Wellington fixture. Despite her failures at the June meeting, Lomint is likeiy to be well supported in any event that she contests at the Te Kuiti meeting. She has been getting through a lot of useful work at Ellerslie, and the track conditions will probably be more suitable to her during the coming week. Maunga failed to impress with his performances at the Great Northern meeting though perhaps he was a bit unlucky when he lost his rider on the last day. He was not started again till the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase yesterday, and came to grief, but lie was remounted and finished t'-iird. Kaiti has been racing well at the Hawke's Bay meetings recently and he -is right back to his best form. He won the Kawera Handicap at the Hawke's Bay Hunt Club meeting from end to end and put up a similar performance in the Heretaunga Handicap at the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's meeting at Hastings yesterday. Rangi Sarto was unlucky in the Hunt Club Steeplechase at the Hawke's Bay Hunt meeting on Wednesday. He was in front with Ban juke for about a couple of miles and then Banjuke retired. He looked a certainty, but fell two fences from home. On that showing be appeared to have a great chance in the Woodlands Steeplechase at Hastings yesterday and was installed favourite. He duly won. Splendid acceptances have been received for the Te Kuiti Racing Club's annual meeting, which will take place at Ellerslie pn Saturday next and tlie following Monday. Altogether out of 137 horses handicapped by Mr. W. P. Russell, only 26 were not paid up for, which is an excellent tribute to his work. Three failed to accept In" the Hunters' Hurdles, two in the Awakino Handicap, three in the Otorowangu Steeplechase, six in the Te Kuiti Handithe- Pio Plb * Hurdles, four in the Te Kumi Handicap and five in the Stewards' Handicap. Gaze had not raced over hurdles for some time prior to winning the Hawke's Bay Hurdle* .at Hastings yesterday. He contested hurdle events at the Hawke's Bay winter meeting twelve months - and later started in a flat event at the Christchurch Hunt Club meeting last July, fie was not raced again till the Manawatu Cup last Boxing Day and his efforts till yesterday have been confined to, the flat. He annexed the President's Handicap at the Foxton meeting and later won a ladies' bracelet at the Waipukurau fixture. Gaze is engaged in hurdle events at the Wellington meeting, and he has only got to retain his present form to he in the money.