Prospective Buyers After Useful Te Haka

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 173, 24 July 1941, Page 17

Prospective Buyers After Useful Te Haka

(Special.) MATAMATA, this day. It Iβ not yet certain that J. W. Clothier HakaTS fe W - tW °« Useful Te T? IDC ? Rewa t0 the National Sr T g 'w i here have been several offers wUI H* an , d $ is P<«ib'-e that he n™LrV W ehortly. If he remains with his £w>k D S" , and k not uke * to ChristTe Haka will be jumped. He has Sri*? Proficiency in thie department in private and te a very fit horee. Hunting h«« VT°* ° Wned and train ?d by Ciothiei" *ws yet to start, but he is quite ready He Iβ by Hunting Song—Billikine. The rSL°+ CT memb er of the team ie a rang two-year-old by Mr. StandfastUoltlen Hair. He Iβ in wor, but as he was a December foal he is not being hurried and will not race until the summer. I J. W. Cathro'e team at present ie not a •8f ?d e - He vrill commence the season w ltn three known performers, The Cardinal, Flying Acre and Kilcash; also Alaniima, Neena and a two-year-old colt by Mane Pal—Warden's Queen. The Cardinal bruised a heel just before the Matamata Patriotic meeting, but is all right again and will probably be nominated ■ tor Pakuranga. R. J. Mateer has Val Lu in bright condition, and a Foxbridge rising Iwo-vear-old who should be fit to race in the early spring. Pleuron is being schooled, while a neing two-year sister to Babrow is working with the view to racing in the summer. Scarcity of light boys ie restricting some of the teams.