MUTUNGA AND FORUM
Horses .carrying the colours of Messrs. G. R. Hunter and P. C. Webb have mainly d<lne their racing in the South Island, but the well-known partnership will have two novice representatives at the Napier Park Meeting tomorrow- The-pair are Mutunga and Forum, who are being trained at Hastings. Mutunga. who will contest the hack six, is said to show considerable promise. He is a three-year-old bay gelding by Cockpit from the Gold Reef mare Gold Bound, and is hence a brother to Gold Pit, whom the partnership raced with success a few seasons ago, and a half-brother to the dual St Leger winner Duo, the Foal Stakes winner Demagogue, and the G.N. Oaks winner Ilka. . ,Forum, who will.be the representative iri the Trial Handicap, is another three-year-old son of Cockpit, being a brown gelding out of the Demosthenes mare Ennea, the dam also of Grecian, a useful winner.for the late Mr. C. Elgar though a hard horse to keep right. Both Forum and Mutunga were bred by Mrs. M. A. Perry, arid though the Cockpits! have as a whole been clisappointing'.Messrs. Hunter and Webb seem to hav;e a liking for (hem.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1935, Page 6
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194MUTUNGA AND FORUM Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1935, Page 6
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