NOTES FROM AWAPUNI

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 40, 15 August 1930, Page 6

NOTES FROM AWAPUNI

ITBWGOMEKS TO ACTIVE RANKS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.")

PALMERSTON 'N., This Day.

' Although the spring fixtures are loomJug up, matters have been. somewhat unfaiteresting at Awapuni of late. The copiipus. rainfall. which has, been experienced Since the local Winter Meeting has: restricted fast work considerably, and operations were carried out on the hurdle yesterday ■ indrniijg.. ', "

Risk, th« winner of the ManawatuHunt Cup at the past fixture, has: been taken in hand by L. Knapp in perparation for ppproacflingf jumping contests. ' The Elyniari gelding was sent along: over seven furlongs' yesterday in company "with Archeria and Acravette. Arcberia had a Shade the better of things at theVcloSe after running the' last six - furlongs in lmin 25sec. Aeravette is ~a newcomer and, as his. name would suggest,. is, ; by Acre- Although he.had.the inside running throughout, he gave quite..'a promising jfchowing. . .-.■.■• .. :'• ■ Two of the younger brigade in Sunstead fend Prime Moutoa were associated in a icamper from the three-furlong post, the former, who had : the advantage in the heights, being, in front after running the distance in 39 2-ssec, Incidentally Metcalf 3,eft for Christchurch. yesterday afternoon, to be in attendance at Ricearton on. the final day, when the seven stone minimum .operates. . ... The only other members to be sent along ■tore the two Hunting Song three-year-■pldsj Trojan Melody and Star of Gold. ,ihe pair went out to run three furlongs, but jumped off beyond the correct point, the, signpost not having been placed in (position, and they were not timed in consequence.: Dobbin and Fiery Comet fulfilled a useful task without being asked to give of their best, while Evening Hero and Brown-Abbey-were speeded up over half 8 mile.,■ This pair have been accorded nominations for the Hawkes Bay Meeting, but nothing: definite has: been decided, about the trip, , ■.-..-..-. ..,- ■_:. Mandate, the, Waimangu gelding who San two creditable races at the Manawatu .Winter Meeting, will go North, to the jpakuranga Hunt Meeting should all go well with him in the interim. Mandate tad been only in work three weeks prior jo the local fixture, and he should be an improved horse by the time he is asked to race. Unfortunately, he is not| Jtoo sound, and he has to be nursed in JBonsequenee. ■ --•• . ■ .•--• --• - ■ Figuring in, the list of nominations for the Sylvia Paik Handicap at the Pakusanga Hunt fixture was the name of Lady <^omet, a ten-year-old mare who won the July -Steeplechase away back in 1926. It is evident that an.error has been made, for it is reported locally that_ Lady Comet fe running in the paddock with a foal by Greyspear at foot, while she is in. foal to Little England. Indications that spring racing is near are: evident by the return .to the active ranks ..of those, well-known performers, Merry Damon, Pahu, and Keddar, the firstiiamed having linked up with (J. New's team and the other pair with J. P. Coyle's members. Merry Damon proved this centre's best handicap horse last season, and in a period of less than sis months' racing won £1310. Pahu gave plenty of promise, and^ by winning £925' in his initial season* more than paid his way. Keddar was the disappointment, for after winning' £330 in the early; stages of! the season he was sold..to,a local sportsman and thereafter failed..tpV.win ,any. place inpneyiV AD' 'three, look,,very: well.vatid ready to i;ommence a serious preparation. Two other newcomers to the localranks sre a four-year-old half-sister to" Glentossie, by Bisogne from Sleeping Beauty, and a product of Thurnham and Tokarahi by Martian—Tsaritza. The former is a shade' on the small side, but she has been well done by, and has been hacked about for the past .six months. Originally>Bhe bad seedy feet, but time and-■■■care- have Jfemedied the faults. _The,.Thiirnham youngster is a goodlooking sort.- ; • ... Corneroff, who ran second to Aurora Borealis in the Grand National Steeplechase, 'figures in the race-book as by DanHof—Nieppe. Some doubt has been entertained as to the breeding qf the dam, and a local breeder studmaster maintains thai Corneroff's dam was a Coronet mare wio'was a full sister to Astor, aijd that Yaward, "by Bisogne, was also from 'the name mare. .

The-names of Ebeum and Mungalli have been claimed' for the Lackham—'lna three' year-old and the Lackham—Footstep yearling in W. Bailey's stable. The names are Australian aboriginal, meaning "a young man" and "a little girl"'respectively. The Kilboy—Lady Black gelding Ladykiller, who is now seven-year-old, is an inmate of K. E. Hatch's stable. He has been turned out since last March, but is now attending the tracks, although he is stilljn the rough. (5. ,-New has disposed of his Top Gallant—Fustian youngster Sir Gallant, who won the first division of the parade conducted at the Manawat.u Winter Meeting, and he is now, quartered in L, G. Morris's stable at'Fordell. Although somewhat small, Sir Gallant gave promise of coming to hand early. The mentor has also sold the Leightbn—Cassock gelding Parlj^who will do his future racing on the West Coast. While he proved somewhat of a: disappointment with the colours up, 3?arl has shown a good turn of speed on the tracks on occasion. 3. 3. Dowling, who has been filling the position of private trainer to Mr. F. S. Easton for some months past, has resigned in order to take up the duties of head lad to R. Alexander, at Greenmeadows. It has not yet been publicly announced who ■will supervise the training of the Moutoa liodge candidates in future. Two of the stable* inmates in Moatoa Treasury and 3?rime Moutoa both ran good races at the •past Manawatu Meeting without actually getting in the money.