STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 90, 17 April 1929, Page 14

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

(By WHALEBONE.)

SEASON'S FIXTUREvS,

April In 20—WIi.ingarei R.C. April 11', _o—llawkj's Bay J.C. April -H. _7—Nelson J.C. April -7—Aruberley R.C. April -7, J'.i—Waikato R.C. .May 3, 4—Marlborough R.C. May 4 — Marron J.C. May 'J. 11—Eiimunt R.C. May 11 —Franklin R.C. -May 1«1* — Wangantii J.C. May 2.j—Ashhurtou County R.C. June 1 o—Otaki-Maori K.C. J tine 1. .:, .i —I niin-din J.C. June 1. r>—A tick laud R.C. J tun: 12 —Ejnnonr-Wa nganui Hunt Club. June 11. 1-"'—Napier Park R.C. June g!>—A-hburtou County K.C. Juin.* —Waverlcy R.C. .Int.'. in. 11, I:;— Wellington K.C. Jiuj —Wainiate District Hunt Club. .1 uiy 'Jo, liT—Gisiiortie R.C. July -i —South Canterbury Hunt Club. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SI'BSUIIBKR.— CU !•/)». Honour is e.\ peeled to return froni Sydney next week. High Pitch, who won the Foley Memorial Handicap at the Asmulale meeting. has lieen placed in \. L'liniiingbaiii'a hands to train.

Iho Begum and .Schorr have arrived it Whangaroi. Moth are enlaced at the

torthcuiiiing meet ing

Still, livisi, nr. Measurer un-1 Land Measure were -cut to Win nga rei yev tcrday to tnltil their engagement < at the \\ hangarei Racing I lull's autumn nieeting.

Master Poon. who lias been showing ability in his latent -ehoolin.i: ta~ks, will be racing in Hat events at the Waikato meeting next week. Later on in the season his etlorts will In 1 >-■ >ntiii<-»l in hurdle racing, and his prn>pc,-ts in that direction bear a promising a.-pect.

Ihe Eller-lie trainer T. .T. Carinont has taken Mountain Guide in hand again and will prepare him for raring later ml in the season. His best elL'tt to date was in running second to TliJ Lover in the Sylvia Park Handicap, at the l'ukuranga meeting last September.

The Magpie gelding Piet lias com nienced work again on the track a

Kllerslie. looking very big in eoiiilitiou as the result of his recent >p«>ll. Karly in the present season l'iet was tried mil over hurdles and shaped -ullirinit ly well to indicate that he is likely to pay his way in that department of the game.

Sir Archie has beet: more or less sore since he raced at the Ka.-ter meeting at Kllerslie, and F. Stenning has decided to give him a. spell. The chestnut geldimr had been displaying promise in his schooling tasks over hurdles, and hiconnections are unlucky to lose his services at this time of the year.

Several times this season C'.unp I'rinee has threatened to get on the \\ innilllt list, and it is just posible he will do so before the Whanjrarei meeting is concluded. He is included among the field to contest the Trial Stakes on the opening day, and it would not surprise to see him taking a prominent part in the settlement of that event.

In his two races at the Ohinemuri meeting, Serang ran more generously

than he had done in his previous efforts, and he should show up in his enticements at Whangarei this week. Scrang notched a win and a second at the Whangarei spring meeting in November last, and if lie can reproduce that, form in the Waipu Handicap to-murruw he should be in the money.

In several of his races this season, the Quia Abbey gelding Haviland ha-! displayed abundance of speed, and is a hack likely to get mi the winning li»l at the country meetings. Haviland figures in two races at Whangarei to-morrow and the public are sure to accord him a fair measure of Mipport in whatever event he is saddled up to contest. His ability to begin quickly will be a valuable asset in his favour on the country course. When Thursby finished second to King Emerald in the Mornihit--i<ie Handicap on the concluding day at Avondale he gave evidence of returning to form and should be worth following from now on. He is an acceptor in the Me limes | Memorial Handicap at Whangarei and j is likely to show up in that event, particularly so if rain happens to fall in the meantime, as he invariably runs his best races when the going is soft.

R. W. Lewis had Automne at Ellerslie yesterday morning and ridden by H. Dulieu the brown gelding was given a trial over a couple of pony hurdles, which he negotiated in promising style. Automne has been a disappointing horse on the flat since his two and three-year-old career, at which stage he won several important races and promised to turn out a bit above the ordinary. He is in the right condition to undergo a solid preparation as a hurdler, and it remains to be seen whether lie will do any better as a jumping proposition.

Since Hyde Park joined X. Cunningham's stable at Ellerslie the Marble Arch gelding lias improved out of all knowledge and is now- better conditioned than ever lie has previously been. Hyde Park has had several hard races during the last few weeks and has come through the ordeal in first-class style, while there is every reason to anticipate that he will still maintain his latest form throughout the remainder of this season. At one stage of his career Hyde Park was regarded as a very delicate customer, but he has certainly shown little tendency in that direction since coming to Ellerslie. for he has built up into a solid-looking gelding who apparently thrives on the treatment his owner-trainer is allotting liim.

After Mollison's yearling chestnut brother was passed in at auction h)st week—bidding ceased at lOOOgns—he

was purchased privately by Mr. E. M

Pearce. The odds are against Mr. Pearce being as fortunate as with Mollison. but he could afford to take the risk of giving a high price for his brother (says a Sydney writer). Mollison, •who was selected by A. E. J. Austin for Mr. Pearce, and cost fiftflgns, with an additional winning contingency of £100, has put together over £'26,500 in stakes, and the probabilities favour his adding many more thousands to his total. Although Mollison failed as a stayer in the A..T.C'. Derby, a mile and a-quarter is unlikely to prove beyond him. and that puts him in line for a win in the rich Craven Plate at Eandwiek in the spring. T do not think an additional quarter-mile would have made any difference to the result of last Wednesday's All-aged Stakes. Mollison was i going comfortably when thi winning post was reached.

The yearling brought back from Sydney by J. Fielder, in company >vitlil N'edda, was a colt purchased at Rand- • wick by the Dunedin sportsman. Mr. R. At. Greenslade, owner of Rotor, Countersign. and Francolin. The youngster is by Tippler (soil of Polymelus) from Sweet I'orni. by Multiform from Sweet Thorn, by Medallion from the Goldsbrougli mare, Sweetbriar. This is a very successful Australian family, Abercorti. Spice and Wclaroi lieing among its not-, able representatives.