EGMONT 'CHASING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 106, 6 May 1943, Page 7

EGMONT 'CHASING

STUDENT PRINCE IN FAVOUR (Special) HAWERA, this day. The Egmont Club's meeting at Hawera on Saturday will open the steeplechase season in earnest in the North Island. Excellent acceptances have been received for the jumping events, and many of the horses engaged figure in the lists of the Great Northern meeting, and their form will be watched with keen interest. Student Prince will start in the Egmont Steeples with a view to a winter campaign over big country. The Hawera fences are not formidable, and Student Prince should take all sorts of beating. Corday ran up to Hawera expectations at Feilding, and is likely to add further to his successes before the season ends. Valsheen was reported unlucky at Wairarapa, and she sprinted in her usual attractive manner on Tuesday morning to cover three furlongs in 375. Battledress is putting more life into his work, and although withdrawn from his Feilding engagement, there is nothing amiss with him. Battledress galloped well this week and, if conditions remain suitable, will race on Saturday. War Effort was again not favoured in his races at Feilding, but is very well and looks sure to run prominently in the Champion Hack race. Night Ray benefited greatly by her let up, and will be well supported in her Mcßae Memorial engagement. Old Disturbed is looking well and jumping in great style. W. Doyle has been engaged for Disturbed. The Siegfried gelding Alienate is already at Hawera and is m great order. He will be well fancied for the hurdles. Two promising maidens to have their first race are Leighon Eka and Black Plato, and both have worked attractively, WANGANUI PROSPECTS In his races at Feilding, Amigo failed to race up to his track form, but he looks all the better for the racing, and may show to more advantage at Hawera. With 8.1 in the Mcßae Handicap, he must have a second to none chance if he can reproduce anything approaching his old dash, states the Star's special correspondent. Whero was prominent all the way in the Hack Cup at Feilding, and the Iliad gelding, improved by that race, is likely to be handy in the seven furlong hack race at Hawera. Dave Marks has both Whero and Tuatara engaged on Saturday. The latter is to run in the seven furlong event, a distance which should suit the Lord Quex gelding. An interesting runner at Egmont will be Rehearsal. The son of Limond has not had a race for two seasons, as he went amiss just when he looked likely to play a prominent part in some of the good handicap events. If Rehearsal runs on all right, he is sure to win some money soon. First Girl won in her first start this season, but has five unplaced efforts against her since then. One of the speediest gallopers on the Wanganui tracks, the Pombal mare is a bad traveller, and fails to do her best when the colours are up. First Girl might make amends in the hack scurry, as five furlongs should suit her. The Wanton had one race at Feildiir.g and shaped well enough to suggest that she will win a race for W. H. Dwyer shortly. The Midian- mare is very speedy over five furlongs, and the scurry at Hawera should be to her liking. N.Z. DERBY WINNER DEAD Enrich (Safari—Sight Draft), winner of the 1940 Stewards' Handicap and New Zealand Derby, collapsed and died in his stall at Tauherenikau. He won altogether £3039, but never afterwards reached the level he attained as a three-year-old. RELATED TO LOWRY BAY Even though he found Master Dash vastly superior on the first day at Tauherenikau, High Ideal, a younger brother to Lowry Bay, looked as though he would be improved by the outing. The expected improvement materialised on Easter Monday, when he won in good style. A very compact son of Foxlight and the Greyspear mare My Ideal, he should do well In the game. A GREAT family It was through the deeds of Lord Nuffield that Attractive Lady, the dam of this class sprinter, also The Joker and Lady Nuffield, was brought to the forefront. All three are owned by Mr. J. A. Brown, a Mosgiel farmer, and as Lady Nuffield was also a winner on the opening day at Riccarton, the recent meeting was a highly profitable one for him. Attractive Lady was got by Tractor from Lady Sentinel, the latter being by Kilbroney from imported Lady Wayward 11., who also produced Lady Blissful, dam of that other good southerner Bashful Lady. .EMULATED QUEEN OF SONG By his success in the Great Autumn at Riccarton on Saturday the Otago-owned gelding The Joker joins the list of horses which have completed the SockburnAutumn double at the same meeting. He is the second horse of recent years to have followed up a Wellington Cup success by adding the Great Autumn, Queen of Song having done so in 1036. From a horse of mediocre ability, The Joker has climbed far this season, having won the substantial sum of £4100 this term, whereas his three preceding seasons produced only £820. A peculiarity about his efforts has been that all his successes have come on metropolitan courses. A FATAL MISTAKE Israel, which had to be destroyed after his fall in a hurdle event at Riccarton, was a seven-year-old gelding by Rabbi, and was trained for his Marlborough owner, Mr. R. J. Nolan, by R. Register, who also rode' him in his two recent races. Israel created a good impression by his success in the hurdle race at Washdyke a fortnight ago, and was confidently expected to win on the first day at Riccarton, but after a faulty effort at the first fenced he did not improve his jumping, and was always struggling near the rear. He, jumped much better last Saturday, and was in a promising position when he; - crashed about five furlongs from home. '