WANGANUI NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 4

WANGANUI NOTES

NEXT WEEK'S MEETING

(Special to the "Evening Post.") WANGANUI, This Day. Rather than return home with their charges after the recent Kgmont Racing Club s Winter Meeting, several trainers witu horses engaged at the Wanganui Jockey Club's steeplechase tixture elected to come on here to complete training operations and give their candidates some schooling on the course itself. i\ J. Cobb, of Avondale, is here with Te Hai, while he also has British Columbia under his care. Both raced at Hawera and yesterday morning they were not asked to do more than easy work. Te Hai claims an engagement in the Borough Hack Handicap on Thursday next, having been allotted 7.12 in that event, and it this h've-year-old gelding can be induced to line up at the barrier he should take some beating. However, he has always displayed a disinclination to face the tapes), and at Hawera his stubbornness cost investors a good deal of money. British Columbia started twice at Hawera, being narrowly beaten into third place on the opening day and having to strike his colours to the much-improved Refresher on Alonday. The Hastings trainer W. Griffiths has arrived here with the hurdler Tareha and the novice Caen. The latter was associated yesterday with Dawn Princess in a bout over six furlongs, being clocked to take lmin 23sec for the distance without being extended at any stage. At the Hawera Meeting Caen sported silk on one occasion only, that being in the Coronation Stakes on Monday, wlien she was sent out a decided favourite. She showed plenty of speed over the early stages of this six-furlong event, but the heavy going soon found her out and after leading into the straight she stopped badly, having only two of the ten starters behind her when the winning post was reached. Caen has a reputation in private of being a very smart filly, and her breeding would appear to indicate that much can be expected of her when she gains experience. She is a three-year-old half-sister to Shirley, Anomaly, and company, being by Arausio from that good brood mare Hoy. Caen had started only once prior to last Monday, that being when she finished fourth behind Contact, Royal Feast, and Father's Choice in a strong field of maidens at Napier Park. Capella Abbey is another of the arrivals ' here. This Quin Abbey gelding is trained at Gisborne for Mr. M. R. Moore, and judging by his displays at the Egmont Meeting he will not have to improve very much to secure a share of the stake-money offering in steeplechase events in the near future. In the Grandstand Steeplechase next Thursday Capella Abbey has been set to carry 9.6, which is 61b less than he carried in the Adamson Steeplechase last Monday, while in the Egmont- Steeplechase last Saturday he carried 9.11 into third place behind Transact and Pahu. Capella Abbey may have a bout over the schooling fences before next week's meeting. The sprinter Cawbeen is also here to fulfil her engagement in the Winter Oats next Thursday, and judging by her effort in the Flying Handicap last Saturday after getting away badly this Hunting Song mare should play a prominent part in the sprint events at the Wanganui Meeting. Among visitors due here at an early date are Collision and Hunting Star, tho former being engaged in the Trial Handicap while Hunting Star is to contest the Borough Hack Handicap, the concluding event next Thursday. H. Dulieu is also to bring The Tiger down, though he may not arrive until the eve of the meeting.