MORE "DARK" HORSES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 119, 16 November 1933, Page 10

MORE "DARK" HORSES

CARTERTON'S FRESH BLOOD

• The 2vovice'Stake's-arid- Maideii' Plate'at; Cartcrton on Saturday- will probably find;the experienced ..division.!.:.';.splitting- the": spoils, but 'ili'ere are at '■ least five '■ freshhorses in these races, as> well as' several .promising' soi^s who.^hayei.-ha^-pnly^pne) or two previous starts, so, that a.surpi'isei is on the cards. It: was "in the "Cartertoh; Novice threcf. years ?agb :that ■ JEphialtes^ passed the -fifth, centurjr.1" and> so the record galloping 'dividend ■'.' for the Dominion. ."■■'.'.'.: '• ■: ; • '■: -; :: ! ■:'•■

lhc new blood in the Xowce Stakes ioi hoi-Cs that lia\e not won a lace woith ±40 to the dinner, i& iepic=cntcd, bj Miss Ducqucnod, Pukekcr, Miss Ps>}iliolos.},, and Makeshift. Alws Diacquenod , is. also Liiga^ccl m lho Muden Plate, in ' w hicli an additional unknown quantity is> I looting Horn -Wi-s DraiqiiPtiod is a foui \cai-old chestnut maio by Diaujuenod iiom the Hallowin 11 iunic Ciishl i a halt-sihtei to Gaillaid, Dcuno'd, and Kaha, all winnpis, and she ib a hall si'-tci hei&elf to I^l j ing Binge and Banbudge, also winncib but not ich.ible. She is owned by Mrs. C. R. Holmes, the -wife o£ her bleeder, and she tiapcs back to Steppe, one of the most successful tapioota m the New Zealand btud Book Pnkcko 3 a tineeyeai-oid black'geldin o by Aiaiibio horn the bignor maie Defection, >>o that lie is a half-biother to Second rlnought and Retiaet. He was bied by Mi. J. W. McCormack, from whom he hac been puichased by Mr. H. T. Hume, of Masteiton, the owner of Retiact On lii-» bleeding he may develop mto useful foim later on MiSb Psycholog> is an Okawa Stud pioduct, being a toui-yeai-old black mare by Phjcholog> fiom the Australian-bred Giey Monk mate Sihei Grey, so that she is a youngei halt-sistei to ICiggeihead, a wmneL at Riccaitou last week. She will carry the colouis ot the Masteiton spoitsman Mi. C. A. Cameion, who bought het cheaply for 2> guineas at the Tientham sales neatly thiee jeais ago but has not jet raced hei Makeshitt is the three-yeai old lialfsibtci by, Diacquenod to Makeup, and Bhe S*as bied, and, as far as the recoids show, k still owned, by Mi. J. J. C6rry, of ■Blenheim. She will be one of T. R. George's team at the meeting, and she may be expected to make tome sort of fehowring, as Geoi-ge's horses, in the past have gone well and sometimes won afc their first appeal ante. Fleeting Horn is tho name that has licen claimed foi tho four-year-old Black ■Ronald—Matin Bell maie that the Trentluin tiaincr L. G. Browuo lias had in work li or some months past. Matin Bell was a pony by Egjpt, and both she and her biother Caho won laces, but only in moderate class. Fleeting Glance was bred by Mr. J. O'Meara, by whom she was given to the tiainer A. Goodman, who in turn .soldiher after ,rbreaking her in to Biowne. She has bhown fair, promise iv her woik, and in spite .of the fact that she has not jet i«iced bhe should bo fairly well sea&oned wilh galloping and slipuld not be long in levcahng whether or not she possesses any race ability. t Among hoises enptaged in tile two races on Saturday who have had only one or hv'o previous start's ar« the well-bred Sunee (Australian Sun—Bunee, by Earlston), Roderiok Dhu (Chief Ruler—Leithfield, by Nassau), Vestal Queen (Chief ttuler—Vestahs, by Martian), Werolua (Giejspear—Humrau, by King Mark), Celeste (Sky Blue—Sartosta, by Sarto), Oscillation (Day Comet—lmagination, by Bnkenhead). 'Misfire (Royal Shot—MisBoiein, by King "Mark,), Revival (Cape Horn—Velour. by Birkenhead), Anita May. (Cape Horn—Rose Mavtian. by Martian), and Hunting' Lady (Hunting Song—San Han mare, the dam of Thiasher). There is quite good bi ceding among this lot, and some promise has already been displayed by Sunee, Weiohia (second at Hastings last Satuidaj) Celeste, and Oscillation.