MANAWATU AND WAIRARAPA

Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 20

MANAWATU AND WAIRARAPA

Two-year-old racing at Awapuni and Tauherenikau during the Christmas and New Year holidays often brings to I hght some youngsters who are destined to play an important part in the later juvenile events of the season. It is at I this period of the year that many of the champions of the past have emerged from comparative obscurity. Hororata and Fulojoy were winners on these courses twelve months ago who joined the "stars" before the season closed; and three years ago the Manawatu Meeting "fqund" Golden Hair. It may therefore be of some interest to .study the juyenile fields for these two meetings this year. The majority of the youngsters engaged on the first day at both places have been tried in public, and a few have already been winners. Some are capable on their best showings of reaching the best class before the season concludes.

The winners in the Manawatu field are Dawning Light and Laughing Lass, two fillies who possess more than average speed. Early in the season Dawning Light was considered by her trainer to be the "fastest thing" he had ever had in his hands. So she looked to be in her winning effort at Foxton, but she subsequently did not prove reliable and it was not till Woodville at the beginning of the present month that she gave of her best again. A relative of Desert Gold, she may yet acquire ; solidity. Laughing Lass, who has the honour of having been the first of the Laughing Princes to be successful, made her first appearance at the Feilding Meeting, where she won all the way onthe second day. She ran greenly, so her performance was the more notable. After opening her career similarly last year Ilias went on to score as well on the first day at Awapuni, so there is precedent^for Laughing Lass. ' .:,- Three youngsters engaged at Awapuni who have made promising placed showihgs are Sunbeam, Mala, and Deficit, and they are all of a stamp who should go on improving. Sunbeam, a Riccar-ton-trained colt by Siegfried from Sunee's full-sister Sungift, ran seconds to Paper Slipper and Double Gift respectively at his two starts at the New :Zealand.Cup Meeting, and as he was not,too lucky on either occasion he should bear remembering. Mala, a Lackhaih—Lucretia colt who finished second to Wagner after being left at the start at Woodville, has raced only theonce, so his form too is most promising. Deficit, another Lackham colt, was second to Karl at Feilding, and he is improving all the time, being now superior in his work to his stablemate Cricket, who was taken to Australia for the Breeders', Plate in the Spring. Four others in the field who have raced are Jovial Prince, Laggard, Black Fox, and Starbeam, but so far they have not indicated the possession of any ability. The newcomers are Impersonater (a full-brother to Copyist), Laughing Lad (a son of Laughing Prince and the Greyspear mare Spearmiss), and Martara (a son of Martarma and the Paladin mare Tarakeke, a daughter of an imported mare whose best representative yet has been the Useful Empyrean). It is always possible, that there will be something of worth among the new horses, and Itnpersonater, though he may not be quite forward enough yet, is one who has good breeding to commend him. ': • Dawning Light, Sunbeam, and Deficit are form horses who appear again in the Wairarapa field. Two winners weighted above any of them are Martinborough and Brabant, whose form has ibeen' discussed recently in these columns. Martinborough, if produced, will be haying his first start in the Dominion. . Brabant has won at his only appearance yet, but it was on the roomy Masterton course, where, he would have run wide (and probably lost) if he had not been held on to his line by a horse outside him. i' The horse who kept Brabant in that day was Siegmund, and he also appears in the Wairarapa list after having enjoyed a brief respite following his unsuccessful racing at the New Zealand Cup Meeting. Siegmund is one of the classiest-looking colts who have been seen out this season, a gentleman from head to tail, and. he should have a great chance off 7.3 at Tauherenikau if the sharp turns do not trouble him. This son of Siegfried should make his mark on the Turf before his career is over. A number of the other youngsters engaged at Wairarapa have raced without gaining places, but five of them will be making their first appearance if produced. * ■ Gleucos is the brown colt by Rabbi from the Masterpiece mare Clicquot whom J. O. E. Jones is preparing for Mr C. O. T. Rutherford, but he is said to be still backward though promising. Meamea is Mr. N. Clout's Lackham—Hine Wehi colt, a relative to Toxeuma. Sea Wrack, a filly by Lackham from that useful Bisogne mare Orazone, will carry the Princess Doreen colours, and probably with success later on, as she has speed on the track. Sporting Duke is an unknown quantity, as no reference has yet been obtainable as to his breeding. Toorak is a bay colt by Philamor from the Absurd mare Isa, a close relative to Reremoana, Lady Cavendish, Golden Hair, etc.. and she is owned by Messrs.1 A. O. Abbott and G. A. Vincent, of Carterton, on whose behalf he was bought for 150 guineas at the last Trentham' Sales.