A NORTH ISLAND TOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 100, 29 April 1940, Page 10

A NORTH ISLAND TOUR.

Streamline made his reappearance in a fiat event at Waimate on Saturday after an absence sine? he ran third in the Homeby Steeplechase at Kiccarton in 1937. He and his stablemnte, Flashlight, are to tour the M"orth Island with their trainer-rider, G. Ridgway. and will rate at the Egmont, Wanganui and Auckland winter meetings. Strenmline is to be kept to hurdling for the early part of the trip, but should he do well in the Great Northern Hurdles on the first day at Ellerslie, he may contest the Great Northern Steeplechase on the second day. Flashlight's efforts will be confined to steeplechasing throughout the circuit. Both horses have got through a solid preparation. Flashlight is eligible for hack steeplechases. UNLUCKY. A good thing beaten nt Waimate was the good-looking Ynlkyrian—Flourish i three-year-old Norse (says a southern j writer).' Losing half a dozen lengths in a broken start, he put in a fast run round the big field, and suffered defeat by only a ehort head. Confidant, whr> finished third, was another of the unlucky ones at the start, and this half-brother to Chirp should not be long in winning a race. A PROFITABLE CIRCUIT. Roy Bun adkled to his good record in recent weeke iby a comfoi-t.ible win in the Marlborough Cup. On the previous Saturday he won the Nelson Cup. the stake for which carried a canteen of cutlery for Roy Bun's breeder-owner. Mr. T. E. Coates, of Greymouth, and ulso a eil-ver-mounted toilet set Riven by the gatekeepers on the course, for Koy Bun's I rider, the Riccarton apprentice, M. Hollands. Since the Easter racing started on the West Coast Roy Bun has won five races and £448 in stakes. Baby Bun. dam of Roy Bun, has been difficult to get in foal in recent years, and Mr. Coates recently presented her to her old trainer.. T. R. George, who intends to mate her with Croupier.

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