Horses At Riccarton

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 14

Horses At Riccarton

SOVEREIGN LADY.

NEVER LOOKED BETTER.

BXIOAIX XAXXXO nOOMMI.

Sovereign Lady haa nerer looked better I't tnd if H. R, Davie* can keep her in th>i f|v<»an»e condition until November she should P'S» * good' handicap 'race at the New Zealand Cup meeting. Throughout her' J career Sovereign Lady haa been lightly | raced and the name policy ia to be fob. t ' l '" season. Possibly ahe will 1>» <* given a rare at Motukarara as a prelimi-' £■■ ?*f y to ?' (, '" rton and this will be a big help a* it is n hard job winning open class races without the benefit of racing. J Disdain al«o continues to make satisfactory progress under Davit* and she is | being given useful sprinting tasks to keep to her from putting on too much condition, its At times' this brilliant filly suffers froin trouble in he.r quarter*, but there is |t nothing wrong with her at present. Lecture, the youngest member of th» <> team, i* a two-year-old filly by Myo*otis | from Berate, a half-sister by Silverado to Chide. Riri and Chidden. When trained Bern n was a fast sprinter, but wind t'! trouble was responsible for her retirement f' to the stud. Lecture ha* not done much | lately and she has been suffering from a ' cold, but she wa* allowed to stride on the two-year-old track recently when I" slip moved attractively,, She is a goo<!looking Hlly who ia certain ,to lie given 'ifT>l*nty of time. , fe Capricious, a three-year-old maiden fillv |v by Night Raul from Egotism, is having :i let-up at present owing to mtMcle sorely upm. She is in P. Roberts' atable. fc'' Dunedin Guineas CtniUats. ffei'. Defaulter, the star member of Roberts' ®'team, is progressing ift excellent style and p'tlio Dunedin Guinea* should only b? somelit tiling in the nature an exercise gallop aj for him. This Dcfdi; «o«a not knock ift-hilnsclf about in training and he look* an Ideal Derby proposition. - m ' Asset, who has not done any good in ?fe tlio few rai ea she ha* bad since coming iSfv'iiii the North Island, i* *mintii»« w?ll may show better form tnc n-xt time V''* '• called on ts tact.

Grampian, a hurdler with ability bnt a disappointment as a raceholae to date, may rejoin I'. McGrnth's ten*i shortly iu undergo a preparation for hurdle races it the meeting. He i* in solid condition folspell.

Waitaka has improved a good deal during the season he has been in the •table of F. Roberts, and he will start <fti the serious stage of another preparation shortly. He may be raced at Trentham next month, and his form in the Winter Cup, in which he had the bad luck to be beaten by Catalogue in the last few strides, suggests that he will win a wortuwhile handicap race thi« season.

H. Nune ban had Tantivy, a maiden four-year-old gelding by Hnnting Son;* from Grey Eyed, a Greyspear mare, in work off and on for some time. Tantivy •printed well with Gillie thin week and may be a difficult proportion the first time he rare* in novice coxipany. Gillie is sl*o coining on well.' To Rim at Trent htm. Kinnotill and Grey Honour are members of D. Cotton's team who wil l be racing' at Trentbam next month, while Density, if she fnmw through her Dunedin engagements well, may also go north.

On pint form Density will find difficulty in running out the mile in the Dunedin fliiineatt. lint there is not a better-looking or better-ccAiditioned horse here than this Pi irk Coat filly. Kinnoull came through hi* raee at Ashburton welt and should be at the top of his form for Trenthnm. a course on which he scored one of his two successes last season. Grev Honour also races well at I rentham and is shaping nicely in work. Benevolent, the brown colt by Beiu I'ere from Dignified in C. Emer*on's stable, was allowe<l to run along freclv over three furlongs recently. He hit out well after sett lime down, and that on>! sprint has sharpened him up a good deal. Master Hotspur is in fine fettle following his successful run in the John Grigg S taken, ami his next task will probably be in the We lies ley Stakes at Trentham. Pelmet, formerly in T. H. Oillett'* stable and also owned by Mr. E. Hay, won the Wellesley Stake* in 193JV Judging by the easy manner of his Ashhurton success, something will have to go wrong to prevent M '«t«*r Hfrtsonr from going close to following in her footstep*.

■ ■■■■■a ® Also started: 3-3 Kddystone, 10-12 MncGregor. 2-2 Myrnn !<«)• ~m,t: 9-9 Idle Alonjr, 11-10 Orbjr I.ad. tf-7 Stamboul. 12yds; 8-8 Grout Don. 12-12 Master Potts (fell), 24,vilx ; 7-f> Hntllevnle, Sfiyds. Six lengths: four lengths. Idle Along i wan fourth. TImPN : 2.40, 2.48 U-*i, 2.>»0 3-.». BELFIKMI HACK HANDICAP of £130. One mile nnil lOOyds. I—I—XIGIITDUKKtf, 8.8 — G. H. Humphries 1 4—4 —RBCOIJ.KCTIOX, B.O—J. W. Jennings 2 S—6—ROBAXT,5 —6—ROBAXT, 7.8—0. T. Wilson .. 3 Also started : fl-.T Gold Bo.v, 8.1 ; 3-3 Great Bramble 8.0: 2-2 Streamer, 7.10; 7-7 Gleiicos) 8-8 Master Dingle, 7.7. length : two lengths. Screamer was fourth. Time, 1.30.