STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 185, 6 August 1936, Page 17

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

ADDITION TO STABLE. The Yaldhurst trainer M. B. Edwards if,f e en, n iu hand il tine-looking two-year- ™'; olt . l) j; Cockpit from Sapient, the pro- !,' • k. K. Hunter and the Hon. I.C. ebb. Sapient was by KilDioney from the imported mare Merit, and she was a useful mure herself on the race track. SUBSTANTIAL PRICE FOR MAIDEN. According to an Australian exchange, the price paid for the .New Zealand-bred colt Bengal Lancer was loOOgs. He was purchased 011 behalf of Mr. W. Cannon, a Queensland sportsman, who races Don Uiesar. As Bengal Lancer is still a maiclen, the price obtained must be regarded as a substantial one. WAS NOT OVERTAXED. I lie latest track efforts of Versant have been very satisfactory, and the brown gelding is 111 the right order to commence ins six-year-old career. He was not overlacecl last season, and when he strikes *01111 again he should be as good as ever. As V ersant's last appearance was at the <jreat Northern meeting in June, he may need a race before ho reaches his best. GLENDOWIE TOO GOOD. An interesting competitor at the annual point-to-point meeting of the Horowhenua branch of UlO Mau'awatu Hunt Club at ' as t Saturday was Glendowie, winner ?noo Great Northern Steeplechase in J.J-8, and now fourteen years old. Glendowie proved a class too good for his opposition in the Hutiters' Trial Steeplechase, lady riders, in which-he was ridden by Miss M. Kirkcaldie, who now owns linn.

RACED WELL AT DUNEDIN. Cintilla, who is freely engaged in hack events at the Grand National meeting, is ?> . gelding by Woodend from .Bright Mark, and is therefore a brother to Beam. At the recent Dunediii meeting Cintilla was saddled up three times and registered a win and a second placing. As both performances were recorded over one mile and a quarter, the Woodend gelding evidently r possesses ■■ a - fair ' amount of stamina, and his future jirospects appear bright. FAVOURABLY HANDICAPPED. The connections of the Waverley hunter 1< lower Bag have no reason to complain of the weight allotted their horse in the Enfield Steeplechase on the opening day of the coining Riecarton meeting. In his short career on the turf Flower Bag won the Rakuranga and an Kgm out-Waiiganui Hunt Cups and beat all but 'Capella Abbey in the Waikato Hunt Cup. With 0.8 at Riccarton he should possess a good chance, especially as the big fences at Riccarton should be all in-favour of- this capable jumper. MARABOU RESUMES WORK. Marabou, winner of last year's Melbourne Cup, has returned to training to prepare for his spring campaign (states a Melbourne writer). The Marconigrani horse has been spelling at Mr. Sol Green's property, "Underbank," Bacchus Marsh. Since Ml*. C. B. Kellow purchased Marabou for 5500gs soon after his Cup win, the handsome bay has failed to reproduce winning form. Marabou was taken to Sydney in company with Hall Mark for the autumn' racing, but he knocked himself while - galloping at Victoria I'ark, the ■injury, him from, starting in Sydney, : ;Vtv

WILL HAVE SUPPORT. Clarion Call has arrived at Riccarton to fulfil _ engagements at the Grand National meeting. This horse is engaged in the Jumpers' Flat on the first day, the Grand National Hurdles on the second day, and the Sydenham Hurdles on the last day. Clarion Call raced most prominently at the recent Great Northern meeting and his owner was most unlucky not to win the Great Northern Hurdles with him. However, he made some amends 011 the second day when he captured the liemuera Hurdles. His next appearance was at Wellington, where he led for a good way in the Winter Hurdles, but then petered out. However, he should be an improved horse at Riccarton next week, and it "will be interesting to see hiw he progresses in his schooling tasks there during the next few days. If in anything like the conijition he was at Ellerslie, Clarion Call will have plenty of support in the big hurdle event next Thursday. WILL BE TROUBLESOME. Polydora is credited with giving a dashing display over half a dozen hurdles at Riccarton yesterday, and it looks as though she is going to be troublesome in her engagements at the Grand National meeting next week. This mare s was good on the flat and lias also proved herself over the battens, finishing third in the last Grand Natiqnal Hurdles, though she did not jump too well on that occasion. However, on the last day she accounted for the Sydenham Hurdles, two miles, just beating Revision by a head. She also won at the Now Zealand Cup meeting;, Polydora is a much more proficient jumper now, and though she lias done no racing over hurdles for some time slie has had sorne solid schooling, and her pace on the flat should enable her to make a good showing. This mare will contest the Jumpers' Flat Race on the first day of the meeting.