HASTINGS DOUBLE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27018, 18 April 1953, Page 4

HASTINGS DOUBLE

AUBEOMYCIN MAY WIN FIBST LEG Aureomycin, a good fourth in the Hawke s Bay Cup last week, may carrv l2 P i_ weight of 8-10 to success in the Te Mahanga Handicap, the first leg of the double at Hastings The Hawke’s Bay CUp winner, Gay Minstrel, is missing from today’s field, and so is Hy-Spin, which dead-heated with Papiro for second. Aureomycin was unable to get clear at a vital stage of the Hawke’s Bay Cup. At the time several other horses were improving their nositions, and as a result he lost a few places. He has not won a race z since January 3 but on his recent form he should improv? his record soon. The early favourite for the Okawa Handicap, second leg of the double, is Illusionist, easy winner of the corresponding race last week. Illusionist, a four-year-old Subterfuge v gelding, has been raised 81b and has an extra furlong to run today, but this may not prevent him from completing the double. Beau Coeur and Adula are the Improvers in the field, and Pierre, in his present form, should be hard to beat. DEATH OF WHIRLAW AY The famous American horse Whirlaway died at Mr Boussac’s stud in France last week, ♦ A son of the English Derby winner, Blenheim, Whirlaway was the best American performer of his time, and was the first horse to win 500,000 dollars. Mr Boussac bought Whirlaway from Mr Warren Wright shortly after the Second World War for breeding.