HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 6

HERE AND THERE

First Training Successes. The victories of Bronze Eagle at Trentham gave J. L. Gray, of Takamm,,a fon o« the leading jockey,. H. Gray, his first successes, as a trainer, and Havering very nearly added another. After returning from England* where ha went-to : complfte his education,. J.>L.;,Gray started « a jockey and rode a; few-winners,.-in-cluding Oration in the Avondale All-Aged Stakes in 1925.. Five years.later his father won this race on Lady Quex. Increasing weight compelled the son's from riding, and after being stationed. at Ellerslie as a trainer for a short period he removed to Takanini a few months ago. Havering:,and Bronze Eagle.are the mainstays of-his; : teanrat.•present,.-.-. . : ■ English Racing.^ ' ;fe>~: : .--yy [ --X^7'\ The English 'flat■facrng .season^ opens: 'next week:at Lincoln and-Liverpgph, The:] principal event at the^forme^meetmg'iis the Lincolnshire handicap' (one mile) on the third day (Wednesday), and the_;main race at the latter; meeting is the Liverpool Spring: Crip, (one mile two\furlongs 170 yards) on the first-day (Thursday). I The-Liverpool' Grand National. Steepler chase, run under the NationaVHunt'Bules; will .he staged: at1- theY Liverpool 'Meeting ■on^Friday.•■';•■_, "• ■'■ ■'; ! ::;. .. '•.' .' "..'.'..": :.i J

Imported Three-year-old. The three-year-old English horse Mullabpden, who was purchased privately in February "by the Lower Hutt sportsman,

Mr. W. A. Fuller, is now being put through his early-pacings by H. Pritchard at Trentham. Mullaboden, who is very well-built, is by the young -Phalans sire Torlonia (closely related to March Along) from the Irish mare Ternpleboden,'. by Bushey Park, and he thus comes from a family rich in staying blood. Much interest will be taken in his progress, but it is unlikely that he will be raced till-late in the year, so as to allow mm plenty ot -i time to acclimatise. '-'■■' j Bred To Go Fast. Granado, the two-year-old half-brother by Chief Ruler to Royal Finance, is again being worked by S. J. Reid, who let him up for a couple of weeks' spell prior to the Wellington Meeting. Granado has, not yet raced, and it is unlikely that he will be seen out until he is a three-year-old. If breeding counts for anything, there should be- speed here, for, besides being by Chief Ruler, he is from a very speedy mare, Leithfield, who won among other, races the A.R.C. Nursery Handicap, Avondale Juvenile Handicap, Wanganui Winter Oats, and several sprints on the West Coast. Leithfield is by Nassau from Gar-J ston, by Birkenhead. She is a member of the No. 2 family arid Chief Ruler ii a member" of the No. 1 family; further, the first three removes of Granado's pedigree contain only-the figures 1, ■2, and 3. Here are still further grounds' for expecting speed, and plenty of it. . ■ . Odds and Ends. 'Royal Doulton has now won £5470 in stakes, made up as follows:—l 926-27 season (as a three-year-old), £40; 1927-28, £1010; 1928-29, £1765; • 1929-30, £J510; 1930-31,. to date, £1145. ■ ■ ; Don Jose is reported from Riccarton to have made a good recovery from his recent leg trouble,, and to be again in daily attendance at the tracks. Black Mint is again a daily attender on the Trentham tracks, but it is unlikely he will race till after Easter. He has come in from his spell very big.