STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 222, 19 September 1929, Page 17

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

. I SEASON'S FIXTURES. » (By WHALEBONE.) September 21—Asliburton County R.C. September 21, 23—Avondale J.C. September 2fi, 27—Geraldine R.C. September 28-—Hawke's Bay J.C. Value , won only one race last season, and that was the.Mount Eden Handicap, six furlongs, at the Avondale meeting. She is included in F. Loomb's team for the forthcoming meeting at Avondale. Knightlike has grown into a fine looking sort, whose Wanganui efforts'indicate that he may soon reach the winning list. Although still eligible to compete in hack events, Knightlike will be racing in open company on the first day of the Avondale meeting. Takuranga was among those who contested the Sylvia Handicap at the Pakuranga meeting. He was a good way back in the middle stages, but finished on to get third money. Takuranga has been accepted for in the Swanson Handicap at Avondale next Saturday. The Public Health Service .at Washington believes parents should talk more at home to teach their children _ how to. speak and also to prevent the likelihood of speech defects. Estimating that approximately 1,000,000 Americans have some form of speech disorder, it says. 500,000 of these are children who stammer and stutter.

The Te Awamutu sprinter Awarere ® ias arrived at Avondale, and judging by lis condition he lias done plenty of work lince racing at Ellerslie in June. Providing the weather keeps fine and the * joing is firm, Awarere may prove ons of ;he hardest to beat in the Flying Stakes ? lext Saturday. j Paddon continues to please in bis work * it Te Rapa, and the son of Archiestown f promises to strip a very fit horse next Saturday. He lias shown ability from six furlongs to a mile and a-quarter during the last few months, and has run j some great races. He is sure to be one, )f- the popular fancies for the Cup. The Avondale Stakes candidate Biddy's j Boy, by Illumination from Lady Biddy, j is built on very solid lines, and his condition indicates that lie has done a §;ood preparation. He hails from a j stable that has produced a number of ''classic" winners in the past, and that [act alone will ensure his getting good , support next Saturday. Watch Officer, who will contest the Avondale Stakes, hit out with plenty of freedom in a half-mile sprint on the ' Dutside of the course proper at Avondale yesterday morning. This juvenile has an impressive style of galloping, and is likely to show up in two-year-old events before the spring meetings are over. Tahoma displayed plenty of speed when sprinted over a five furlong course in company with White Fang yesterday morning at Avondale. He has not done much racing as yet, although he won a. division race at the Hawke's Bay meeting in very convincing style. He should show up in minor events before the Avondale and Auckland meetings are concluded. Mervetto was a good performer last" season, and at the' Auckland summer meeting annexed the Glasgow Handicap, seven furlongs, and the Goodwood Handicap, six furlongs. She was very unlucky in getting beaten in the Easter Handicap at Auckland in the autumn by Bright Glow. Mervette has not raced since last May, and is to have her first start this season at Avondale on Saturday. Chief Link, who arrived with Silvermine yesterday, is a half-brother to Silvermine and a full brother to Silver Rule, both of whom have shown ability to go very fast over, short courses. Chief Link has not raced yet, but he won a division of the Two-year-old Parade at Wanganui, and there is little doubt that he possesses the family speed. He is engaged in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie next month. Star Stranger, top weight in the Avondale 'Cup, appears to be more forward than he was at this stage last season. He went a good race at Wanganui, and it would not surprise to find him registering a better performance at Avondale next Saturday. He is one of the best stayers in the race and a proved weight earner;,, while the long straight on the suburban Course will jalso be : a factor in bis favour. ': Since pacing successfully in the Dunedin Handicap at the Pakuranga meeting, Flying Prince has hardened up in appearance, and he frill have plenty of friends if he goes to the post in the Members' Handicap at Avondale on Saturday. Flying Prince is engaged in the Avondale Guineas to be run on the second day of the meeting, and the race on the opening day will serve to improve him for his "classic" engagement. Barometer has run most consistently recently. He finished third to Seatown and King Emerald in the York Handicap, seven furlongs, at the Great Northern meeting, and last month won the Jellicoe Handicap, one mile and a-quar-ter, at the Pakuranga Hunt meeting. Barometer was taken to the recent Marton meeting and won the big event each day. He is in the Avondale Cup with 8.3, and should run well. Silvermine was a good performer in sprint events last season, and he slioweu at the recent Wanganui meeting that lis would not be long in getting 011 the winning list, for he led into the straight in the Flying Handicap, finishing a good fourth. Silvermine was second in the Flying Handicap at Avondale with 8.0 last year, and now has 9.2 in the same event. He-has been set a good task to give weight to Gold; Money and Eaglet. Vanessa has come through her Avondale Stakes preparation in great style under Geo. Henderson's guidance, and if she fails to run prominently it will not be for lack of condition. This filly, who ■has been steadily improving for some time past, has already proved herself to be possessed of abundance of speed. If favoured with a good run she should be in the firing line at the conclusion of th Avondale Stakes contest on Saturday. Great Charter, who .is among the entries for the Auckland meeting, was only raced on four occasions last season, and was placed in his two last efforts — two sprint events at the Hawke's Bay autumn meeting, in which he ran third and second respectively. Great Charter was a good three-year-old, and if F. Davis can get him back to anything like that form he should annex some stake money, this season for there is 110 doubt he is a good horse' when at his best. Gascony has been nominated for the Auckland' spring meeting, and he would only need to be in the same form as he was in the autumn to take a good deal of beating. Last season he contested ten events and was only out of the money on two occasions. He won the Railway Handicap, six furlongs, at Woodville, the Palmerston North Stakes, six furlongs, the Manawatu Stakes, six furlong 3 (beating Paganelli and Gay Ballerina among others), and the Hawke's Bay Stakes, six furlongs and a-half. Of those engaged in the Avondale Stakes next Saturday, only seven competed in the Debutante Stakes, four furlongs and a-quarter, at Wanganui. They are Orapai, Watch Officer,. Appeal, Lineage, Isa, Foot Rule and Gesture. Of these Isa did the best, for she finished second to Simba, while Foot Rule was two lengths away, third. Watch Officer and Orapai were sixth and seventh respectively. Watch Officer was seconu to Simba xintil the straight was reached, where he commenced to drop back, but Foot Rule improved her position all the way aiid was going on nicely at the finish. Orapai was never prominent; neither was Appeal nor Lineage. There are several others engaged who have shown up in two-year-old parados, but, of course, those events were only half the distance of the Avondale Stakes, or less.

YValtzer was a starter in hurdle events at the Wellington winter meeting, and his best performance' was in finishing second to Horomea in the Corunna Hurdle Race, one mile and a-half, on the second day. YValtzer figures in the Kingsland Hurdles at Avondale next Saturday, and this will be his first start since competing at Trentham. He has a lot of pace and should go well. Motere showed a lot of pace in his races last season, and accounted for the Nursery Handicap at the Avondale autumn meeting. He was made favourite for the Sylvia Handicap, seven furlongs, at the Pakuranga Hunt meeting, and after getting away badly and being a long way back in the middle stages, finished close up. Motere is engaged at the Avondale meeting next Saturday. Glena Bay should be all the ,better for his races at the Mar ton meeting. .He finished second in the Second ,Haclc Hurdle Race, one mile and a-half, after looking all over a winner as the.' field crossed the top. He has improved in his jumping, and if he stays on a little better than he did at Martou he should pick up a stake in this department before long, Clopton, a three-year-old by Tomatin from Lucelle, by Westcourt, who cost 375gs as a yearling, is among those engaged at the Avondale meeting. He only had one race as a two-year-old last season, and that was in the Great Northern Foal Stakes, in which he ran unplaced. Clopton is trained by J. T. Jamieson, and early la<t f-eason good judges thought that he would eventually turn out well, though he would need time. The Lover was a good performer last season, winning the Sylvia Handicap, one mile and a-quarter, at the Pakurauga Hunt meeting at Ellcrslie, , the Maniapoto Hack Cup, nine furlongs, at Te Kuiti, the Takapuna Plate, seven furlongs, the Rotorua Cup, one mile and a-quarter, and the Franklin Cup, one mile and a-quarter. He has been going along well in his work at Ellerslie, and as he is in at the minimum in the Avondale Cup he will be one of the most troublesome of the lightweights engaged.