GEMARA SURPRISES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 304, 23 December 1940, Page 10

GEMARA SURPRISES

EVENTS AT AWAPUNI. STABLEMATES TAKE DOUBLE. BEUE CANE AND SIR BEAU. Horses ilained by W. H. Dwyer at Willisana accounlcil for the doulble at Awapmii on Saturday, wlien the Manawatu Haciuij commenced iu- summer nicctiiiji. JJi'llu Cane, \v3io annexed the watu Cu , )!. had previouuly shown good form at the Wellington spring jneelintr. wlieif she won the IVa-i-o Hamlica:p, ;irnl at the Mew Zealand C:i]> meeriiifr, wiiei e >H\e rtfconntwl un- the Spring I'lnite and the New Zealand Oaks. .She was backe<l down to a price on S;vtimlay, and utter lying in a handy position to tfhe straight rau jKist the leaders to score narrowly from The Buzzer, who finished solidly. J)u -Manrii'r, who had beeu oue of I'iie ]>iU-'.>-inak;'rs, wue tliird. He won the Cup last year.

ii<Mu was in:-stalU-d favourite for t.lie Fitzherbevt linn.Heap, the oj>en wprint. and lie won well l'roni who had set the pace, an 4 N'ijfht Kriiption, with Sir Crusoe, fourth. The success of this pair will eiitsure them supirjrt in Ulieir engagements at Kllernlie.

Having Jii.s first race eince winning a double, over hurdles* at TretvUiam in October. K»pernnee Hay Foxiana by a Jiead in the Tokomnru High-weiyfht. The latter had not been seen <»ut since he accounted for the Hack Hurdles at Marton in SeiP'temlx'r, and lie ehould soon get on •the winning list. Re<l Chief, wilio wa« third, has been placed in Jiis last two .starts.

l>aiitfhine Sons ran right up to 3ier lecent form when »alie won tflie Tararua Handicap, for «he has not -Ixt'ii out of il'lm money i'ii her last seven stiirte. She wiiK well l>a<k early, but move<l up alonjr tlio lmck, and had rhnri(t> at the <list;ince, noin-j on to wore rimn Auto Sweep by a leiKftli. The latter finished from a long way back and just; bear. Counter for third, While Roue Acre was right up fourth.

fiemara. created the l>i™ge«!t surprise of tlu? day when «he heat Cheerful ]vady in tlic (Jillien Handic.ip. and returned a dividend of over a quarter of a century, (ieniaia went to tlie front at the start', •but Cheerful Lndy soon bended her. Over tlie concluding stages Genvara wore her down to score by a neck, with Kotua, who had been placed earlier in the season, half a length away. Talenta and Ijady Ex followed.. 'I'he favourite, Gold Chaee, got away l>adly.

Dynasty, who was twice placed at the recent Woodville meeting, proved too frotwl for thotse opposed to him in the concluding event, the Grandatar.d Handicap. Bold Stop, who was in the money at Gisborne recent I.'.', and wae only having :iis second oii'tinjr tliis season, was next, with Gay Fox. who wan raced prominently this term, in third place, and White Rajah next.

The weather was showery Rt the outset, ■but it cleared latter, and during the day the sum of £27,174 10/ was put throujrh the lii-adhine, compared with £35.965 for the c-oi responding day last year, a decrease of £8790 10/.