ARCADE'S SECOND WIN

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 32, 7 August 1934, Page 6

ARCADE'S SECOND WIN

Arcade, easy winner o£ the "Longbeach Hurdles at the Christehurck Hunt Club's Meeting on Saturday, had been up till recently a disappointing horse in his few starts in the south, but with a steeplechase and a hurdle victory to his credit in the last ten days ho has revealed a quick rise to something like what may prove useful form. He is in the Grand • Xational Hurdles with the minimum, and he is now sure to have a fair following in ■ jiest week's big event. Arcade was bred in the north by Mrs. Sheehy, and be had his first racing as ;i three-year-old in the colours of Messrs. Matthews and Dawson, for whom ho won "' the Waimangu Stakes, 5 furlongs, at the Kotorua Meeting. He then did not reappear till he was a six-year-old, and after «, few unsuccessful races on the ilat be was turned to hurdling by his new ownertrainer, Mr. C. P. Buckenhara. At the 1932 Auckland Winter Meeting he came homo at a huge price in the Penroso Hurdles, but lie did not win nil last season ■ for Mr. Buckenham, who thet. disposed ■ Of him to the trottins trainers the late ; W. .7. Tomkinson and E. C. McDermott. •'■ln the partnership colours he had three 11 starts early this winter, then, on the death '•' of Mr. Tomkinson, McDermott bought his ! late partner's share from the estate. He : is now a nine-year-old bay gelding by the ■ Isinglass horse Marble Ai'ch from the : Glen Albyn mare Glenella (who was never >'• raced), so that he is bred along jumping '■' lines, and J. C. Tomkinson, the son of ; the late Mr. Tomkinson, is training him ■■ for McDermott.