SPORTING

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24093, 1 November 1943, Page 7

SPORTING

FOXTON R.C. CUP WON BY AMIGO (P.A.) PALMERSTON N., October 31. The Foxton spring meeting was held at Awapuni in overcast weather on a good track. The totalisator investments amounted to £48,337, against £19,471 10s on the corresponding day last year, when the meeting was held at Otaki. Results:— PIAKI HURDLES, of £200; one mile and a half.—3 FLYING SPRAY 9-0 Gregory 1; 8 Taane Pango 9-0 Walsh 2; 4 Vivid Night 9-10 Stevens 3. • Scratched: Anglo-Irish, Pohuka, Walmutu. Length and a quarter; length. Time, 2mln 35sec.

TRIAL STAKES, of £150; six furlongs.— 3 SOME SING 8-5 Forsyth 1; 1 Leybourne 8-3 Midwood 2; 6 Social Climber 8-5 Stevens 3. «

All started. Three-quarters of a length; neck. Time, Imin 15 2-3 sec. TWO-YEAR-OLD HANDICAP; of £200; five furlongs.—2 HOODIKI 7-10 Broughton 1; 4 Firm Lass 7-6 Tokl 2; 1 Intense S. Waddell 3.

Scratched: Killarney Boy. Neck; same. Time, Imln 3sec.

FOXTON CUP, of £400; one mile and a quarter.—l2 AMIGO 8-2 Chote 1; 4 Fiddler’s Green 7-12 Ireland 2; 6 Don Quex 7-3 A. Waddell 3.

All started. Length and a half; head. Time, 2mln 7sec,

MOTUITI HACK HANDICAP, of £200; six furlongs.—s SEA QUEX 8-7 Stevens 1; 3 Foxcover 8-0 Jenkins 2; 2 Vermette 8-8 Clutterbuck 3.

All started. Three-quarters of a length: half a length. Time, Imin Msec. AWAHOU HACK HANDICAP, of £200: nine furlongs.—l PATU PO 9-10 Midwood 1; 3 Keen Play 7-12 Broughton 2; 8 Greek Effort 8-0 Galvin 3. Scratched: Foxcatcher, Sovereign Lad, Gothic. Lady Oaklands. Two lengths; head. Time, Imin 55sec. ROBINSON HANDICAP, of £300; six furlongs.—6 ALETHEA 7-11 Stevens 1; 3 Betterman 8-0 Martinovitch 2; 5 Theolateral 7-11 Broughton 3. Scratched: Parlato. Length; neck. Time, Imin 14 3-ssec. WHARANGI HANDICAP, of £200; seven furlongs.—6 SPIRIT 7-13 Aitken 1| 3 Lady Spiral 8-11 Clutterbuck 2; 8 Kahuranaki 7-7 Galvin 3. , Scratched: Solver, Leisurely. Pedantic, Advocate. Length and a half; same. Time, Imin 25 l-ssec.

TURF GOSSIP Answer to Correspondent “Disputed”: Both ran unplaced In Telegraph Handicap. At Awapuni Hoodiki, winner of the Two-year-old Handicap at *the Foxton meeting on Saturday, is one of the first of the defunct Golden Eagle’s progeny to win. She is from Merial by Chief Ruler from the Absurd mare Melissa, and was purchased as a yearling by her present owner, Mr S. Slevers, for 400 guineas. Hoodiki is trained at Bulls by A. Neale. Firm Lass, runner-up to Hoodiki, Is by Ringmaster from Severe by Limond from Drastic bv Absurd, and was bred by Mr G. M. Currie who sold her at Trentham for the unusual low figure for a Kai Iwl youngster, of 70 guineas. She is trained at Ellerslie by G. Jenkins. The Ringmaster juveniles have t}° ne we U to date this season. Bred in Southland

Some Sing, winner of the Trial Stakes at the Foxton fixture, is a five-year-old mare by Nigger Minstrel from Some Queen, and was trained at Invercargill by J. A. Rowland last season, when she had three races only for a third placing. She was purchased some months back by the, Masterton owner-trainer, B. Burgess, b' 6) Saturday’s was her first win in thujc starts in his colours. Given Time Among the two-year-olds in F. Smith’s stable at Takanlnl is Coronalre, for, whom Mr W. S. Goosman, M.P., paid 825gns' at the last National sales. Coronalre is by the English Derby winner Coronach from Snowfleld (out of a half-sister to Arctic King’s dam Snowland). Coronalre is a big colt and is not likely to be asked to race until the summer. First Race

Red Hope, a starter in the Hlgh-welght Handicap at Gore, is a well-grown four-year-old brother to Amorlad. He is a bigger horse, and has a nice style of galloping, but ran very greenly in this, his first race.

Mounting Up His two winning rides at Gore on Monday made K. E. Wilson's total 30, and he will only be able to ride one more winner before he loses the right to claim a 31b allowance. Wilson has been riding during four'seasons. " Creditable Effort

. Last season Sister Sal was supported to win more than one race on the reputation ■of fast gallops she had recorded on the training tracks, but her waywardness at the barrier spoiled her chances. In the two instances she was caught In the right mood , she won well, confirming the reports, of her speed. At Gore on Monday she was quite well behaved at the barrier, but.stood Salmi up a good start over the last two. furlongs, and In beating her home registered a really good performance.

Doing Well Representative continues to do everything right in his training at Takanini. says an Auckland correspondent, and, all going well, promises to be in fine order for the New Zealand Cup this month. The Nlghtmarch gelding’s success Ip the Avondale Cup was a good effort, apd one which suggests that he will confirm earlier opinions as to his staying capacity. Now that his stabiemate, Lord Chancellor, is out of the Cup, Representative Is likely to take his place in the list of early fancies.

An Awapuni Candidate Te Kawitl, winner of the Waverley Cup on Monday last, has an engagement in the New Zealand Cup. He is a seven-year-old brown gelding by Night Raid from Queen March, and is trained at Awapuni by C. J. Thomson, for Messrs E. R. Davis and O. Nicholson, Auckland. He is a halfbrother to King March, Pateena, Gay Marigold, Llmarch, King Neptune. Birthday Boy, and Queen City, a family which won many good races for the Auckland partnership. Te Kawitl is bred op staying lines, and has contested an Auckland Cup and a New Zealand Cup to date. Juvenile at Waverley Alderman, winner of the Nursery Handicap at the Waverley meeting, is a brown gelding by Ninth Duke from Maktoub, and was bought at the Trentham sales in January by the Hawera trainer, R. Brough, for HOgns. He won at his first appearance In public. Ninth Duke Is a son of Blandford from a Black Jester mare whose second dam, Miranda, was a sister to Pretty Polly. Ninth Duke raced in France and England and finished up his career as a successful Hurdler, Maktoub was never raced. She Is by Defoe from Oread, whose second dam, Ori, was a sister to Lady Disdain, dam of Bee (Wellington Cup), Snub (Canterbury Cup), and Contempt (dam of Silver Scorn and Disdain). An Interesting Winner

The win of Man’s Pride in the first division of the Waveriey Maiden was thoroughly deserved, for in his three previous starts, his only races in public, he had been deprived of success through misfortune in the running. He is a three-year-old brown gelding by Man’s Pal from Paper Rose, and was bought by Miss J. L, Flower, Palmerston North, from Mr G. H. Loffhagen, of North Canterbury, who acquired the dam with Man’s Pride at foot and in foal to Battle Song, from the Gladstone Park Stud, for 140 guineas. Paper Rosfe is by Paper Money from the imported mare, Christmas Rose, and is the dam of Silver Brier, winner of seven races, and Trump Card, who won races in Australia. Battle Song’s foal was a filly, and she was sold at Trentham by Mr Loffhagen for 260 guineas to Mr F. H. Mehta, of Bombay, She is now being trained by P. Spratt.