NEW PLYMOUTH NOTES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 16

NEW PLYMOUTH NOTES

Dominion Special Service.

New Plymouth, May 10.

The racing at Hawera over the weekend has caused a lull on the New Plymouth tracks for the present, as a number of horses have been eased for a few days before returning to more serious business. , The course proper on lhe extreme outside was available this morning for those trainers with horses engaged at n angaDon Erma was restricted to a working gallop over a circuit and allowed to sprint the last two furlongs in 27 4-5. The old campaigner has pleased his trainer since the Hawera meeting and there has been no recurrence of lameness. Saturdays race has wrought an improvement iu his condition. Lady Kyra showed clear by a length from Bonny Glow at the completion, of six fi”-longs in 1.20, the first three taking 3.8 3-5. Lady Kyra did her work impressively and may shortly make amends for recent failures. *R. W. Shaw has been engaged to ride Ripple and Lady Kyra at Wanganui. N. It. McKenzie will ride Cometarium and Bonny Glow. Booklaw’s form at the Egmont meeting was all wrong, so it has been decided against* racing him in the meantime and he is on the easy list for a few days. When he resumes it is likely he will be got ready for the steeplechase at Foxton. An acquisition to New Plymouth tracks is the four-year-old mare Merial, who has been transferred to R. Johnson’s stable. Majority has been turned out for a three months spell.

Carbine’s Meeting. The A.J.C. autumn meeting of 193 S should go down in turf history as “Carbine’s year.” All of the long-distance raraes w.ere won by horses of that line, and all the winners referred to are by a single sire, The Buzzard, who was imported for the Lyndhurst Stud, Queensland, by Mr. J. G. McDougall. L’Aiglon (a three-year-old) won the Sydney Cup. Old Rowley won the Cumberland Plate and the A.J.C. Plate (two miles and a quarter). Gay Knight won the 13-furlongs Dangar Handicap, Cathartes dead-heated in the St. Leger, and Buzzalong was third in the Doncaster —all sons of The Buzzard, son of the Derby winner Spion Kop and Valescure. by Swynford. The Bend Or line had the best horse racing, perhaps the best horse seen in Australia up to a mile or more, in Ajax. It also had the best two-year-olds in Nuffield . and Pandaya, and the winner of the Doncaster Handicap Hamurah, The best filly, Bonheur de Pere, comes of the Hampton line, through Beau Pcre.