THEIR SYDNEY "EXES"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 120, 24 May 1933, Page 6

THEIR SYDNEY "EXES"

GOOD HUNTING FIXES THEM

Although he beat nothing of particular account, the two winning efforts of the three-year-old Good Hunting at Wanganui lust week were impressively achieved. Now that he has thrown off the muscle soreness that troubled him for some months during the summer he may go on to much better things, for he is endowed with speed above the ordinary and ho is by no ■mean's lacking iv eduragc. Good Hunting may not do Much morj of his immediate racing iv the Dominion, lor he is booked to lcuOe for Australia ■within the course of the next couple or so weeks in charge of his preseut trainer, G. W. New, who will also be taking over one of his own horses, the attractively moulded Beau Gallan.te. With this small team New,should be able more than to pay his .way, as there is a lot. of promise jin both geldings. If things go right New I will probably remain in Australian till after the big spring meetings. Last week's two successes have taken Good Hunting close"'to the edge of hack class, for he has now won eight races worth £462 10s. He contested two races last Reason for a third, and to date this Season'he has been out 22 times for his eight wins 'and five minor places,, His ■wins > comprise' doubles at the Poverty • Bay Spring Meeting, Wairarapa. Summer ■Meeting (beating ..the useful Navaho at level weights), and Wanganui 'Wintej? Meeting, a dead-heat with Slippery at Trc'ntbam in January, and , a win at the [Poverty Bay Summer Meeting. Brought down, to Trentham again in March he -was very, obviously muscletied,, and,., after'being left behind by his then trainer (J,, W. Nixon) in H. J. Bcnge's stable for, a lew weeks, was transferred to New's stable at Awapiini following a couple of races at Easter to be prepared for a trip to Australia. His Wanganui'appearances'- were'his first from his present quarters, and his dual success should assist in providing the preliminary expenses of the journey across the "Tasman. He is a stylishly fashioned and well developed chestnut son of Hunting Song and the Sarto mare Sarty, a daughter of ' imported Love Token, by San try, so he lacks nothing on the score of breeding, and he looks every bit the racehorse his lines suggest. He races in the colours of the Gisbome sportsman, Mr. C. L. Ferguson (owner also of Malahat)^ who. obtained him from his breeder. Mr. .15. Loisel. Love Token, his granddain, was imported from England in 1014 by Mr. jG. Fulton, who raced her for a -couple of brief seasons iv the South Island and j won a sprint event with her at Wingatui. j She was possessed of a useful turn of speed, and it is .probably-as much through 1 her as from his sire that Good. Hunting I has obtained his early brilliance.