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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 115, 10 February 1944, Page 7

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Wairoa Club’s Meeting

(By St. Simon.) The secretary of the Wairoa Racing Club advised yesterday that the Wairoa meeting would be held on Saturday. Most of the horses accepted for are already at Wairoa, and they arc greater in number than the club secured for its meeting lust year. Wairoa should provide an Interesting experiment for racing clubs who are in doubt about holding their meetings. It has always been felt that if horses can be got to a meeting the public will find a way of getting there also. Wairoa, which has been largely dependent on railway facilities, should provide an interesting test of this belief. Unlucky Last Start. The ißroiefort mare Ozel should not.be without prospects if produced in the Wairoa Cup on Saturday. At her last start at the Pahiatua meeting she was unlucky to meet with interference in the hack stayers’ race and then fall by a head to Crucible after making up a lot of ground. Ozel stays well and middle distances suit her. Back in Work.

Winner of the two races he contested early in the current season, Regal Night has returned to W. D. Young’s stable at Hastings to be prepared for late autumn and winter racing. A poisoned toot has. kept him idle since the spring, .but he has completely recovered. Regal Night won over a'mile and a quarter at Ills first stare 'this season, revealing that he possessed stamina, and he has always shaped like a horse that will work his .way through to good company. It is In his favour that soft ground does not hamper him.

Improvements at Haweta. The Egmont Racing Club has been making Improvements to its course, The turn Into the straight has been re-formed and banked, and the course proper has been extended a furlong from the mile and a quarter Start so that the Egmont Cup can be run over a mile and three furlongs. The Cup, to be run at next month’s meeting. will carry a stake of £GOO. The Nolan Hack Cup, the distance of which has been increased from nine furlongs to a mile and a quarter, will carry a stake of £4OO.

Won. On the Course. Lastik had his first start in open company In the Pahiatua Cup, but he was not quite himself on the day. and finished out of a place. He is engaged this week at Wairoa, on which course he won a double last year,

T/’o Good Hacks. , Kindon and Cardonlan, two GisbornCtrained hacks, are due to reappear at the Wairoa meeting on Saturday. They made good impressions when they raced iu the spring at . Napier. Findon winning and Cardonian running second. Both were troubled with soreness subsequently, out they have had time to recover.

Sea Qncx Schooling. After winning early in the season. Sea Quex has failed in seven subsequent starts, though she has run second twice. Lately she has been given some schooling experience, an experiment which succeeded in making her stablemate. Vivid Night, more solid for flat racing. Several of the progeny of Lord Quex hive succeeded as hurdlers and one of his daughters. Charade, was among the best of her time.

Related to Winners. Llanarth, whose good placed form led to a win at the Matamata meeting, is a three-year-old gelding by Musketoon from Vollmond. a Limond mare whose previous progeny included the winners Full Hand, Foxmohd and Vollfox. Second Time Lucky? The Taranaki-trained horses. ® n, broider, Keen Play and Almaza, did not fulfil their engagements at the Matamata .meeting last Saturday because of the travel restrictions. . They aje acceptors for the Rotorua meeting, wjnch is being held at Matamata this week. «

Won Five Races. Hunting Mac, a five-year-old. gelding by Hunting Song from Billikins. trained at Matamata by R. H. Martin for Clothier, is compiling a good record. His win last Saturday was his fltth for the season, and his fourth over-hurdles. When he won his first hurdle race at the Effmont-Taranakl (Hunt in September ne appealed as a horse who would go on and win more races, and this he has done though the company has never been strong. He is giving away a good deal of weight at the Rotorua meeting this vzeek, ibut s'hould .still have good prospects. Win is Due. , ißournemouth finished very solidly, from the middle of the field to take second Place to Llanarth In the Railway Handicap at Matamata, and on that form he should have prospects in the First Mokola Handicap at the Rotorua meeting.. as the field is of the same class and winner is drawn in the Second Mokoia Handicap.

Dam was High Class. Record Voyage, who finished third in the Irwell Handicap, for two-year-olds, at the Canterbury » on : tota ’ i ? at ? ! r „? ie ®. t l"? on Saturday, was having his • first start, and lie is expected to improve rapidly. He is a colt by Phaleron Bay from Fast Passage. winner of the Auckland and New Zealand Cups and many other good race, s. Record Voyage was bred at Stonyhurst Stud and is raced by Mr. J. B. Douglas Clifford. T< Xf B t e he’'negotiations for. the purchase of Mac’edolne fall through the mare is to be treated to a spell in Southland before sh is raced again. '

MaTQuee Finishcd» z. a,i „ A southern report, states that the six-year-old Marquee, who has failed, in two starts this season to reproduce his Sood form of last term, has finished racing as a result of a wind affliction. “

B Rfn"c“ft °ra d n out of hacks when he won the Pelorus Handicap at the Marlborough meeting, following which he was sold to a Blenheim sportsman for £.BO. He is a half-brother to Battledress.

Answers to Inquiries. “S.R.,”' Ohau: £l/4/6. , “Clyde,” Trentham: Islay. Downs never won an open race of 10$ furlongs at Wingatui. His only success at this distance at Wingatui was in the Achilles Plate foi amateur riders on June 2, 1941. £he open 10$ furlongs race that day was won by Meirton: (1) Student Prince was scratched for the Ohura Hurdles at Stratford on January 1. (2) Exeter and Salmi were bracketed on the card for the Waiatarua Handicap, but Salmi did not start. (3) Flowerburn was not an acceptor for the Waiatarua Handicap, but Skydonna was bracketed in this race with Hot Pursuit, who did not start. “Wager,” Berhampore: When- the yellow band cannot be seen on the indicator the place dividend is greater than the win dividend. . . , „ “Peg,” Karori: (1) Stencil is now being bred from. (2) Old Bill ran second to Lambourn in the Harcourt Stakes in 1941. “Fergy,” Wairoa: As the horses were not bracketed the wager should be divided between them it both started.