"PRACTICE" RACING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 70, 19 September 1936, Page 22

"PRACTICE" RACING

PARADES AT HASTINGS fßy Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") ' HASTINGS, September 18. The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club early each season holds a horse parade, which is most popular with owners and trainers as' a means of getting their, horses ready for spring racing. All the events are run under racing conditions, with licensed jockeys and apprentices' wearing correct riding gear, but the horses wear ordinary exercise shoes and not racirig plates. - At the "parade" yesterday over, sixty horses participated, the most in-' teresttog event being the two-year-old division,■ whith was run in.two heats; The other events ■ also .. proved well worth seeing and will help, to, solve some of the problems that will confront speculators at the/Napier Park Racing Club's Spring Meeting next week. The gates were thrown open to the general pubjic, while free afternoon tea and other refreshments were also at: their disposal. The many guests of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club thoroughly appreciated the club's action and many complimentary remarks were passed anent the very fine''manner in which the "meeting" was conducted. The events were divided into heats for two-year-olds, a heat for unraced novices, a heat for novices who have raced, a heat for hacks, and a heat for: open-company horses. The following were the results:— Two-year-olds, 4 furlongs, First Division.—Money Raid (Marsh), 1; Servitor, 2; Unreasonable colt, 3. Seven started. Length, four lengths. Time. 51sec.

Two-year-olds, 4 furlongs, Second Division. —Quimper (A. Weaver), 1; Queen's Own, 2; Felicitation, 3. Six started. Neck, length. Time, 52sec.

Unraced Novice Division, 4 furlongs. —Pylon (Callahan);!; Nereus, 2; Maharanui, 3. Six started. Length, head. Time, 50sec. ' • ■■ Novices who have raced, 5 furlongs. —Silver Tide (Marsh), 1; Black, Forest, 2; Barley Almond, 3. Ten started. Head, length. Time, lmin 4sec. Hack Division, 5 furlongs.—Trailer (Olsen), 1; Tycoon, 2; Soho, 3. Seventeen started. Head, head. Time, lmin 4sec. ■'■',,

Open Division, 5 furlongs.—Lavina (McNaughton), 1; Peter Beckford, 2; Pakanui/ 3. Six started. Length, length. Time, lmin 2sec. Money Raid, the winner of the first juvenile division, is a bay Ally by Night Eaid from the Paper Money mare Par Money, thus being a half-sister to Tray Bit, and she is owned by the Clive trainer R. Gregory, who secured her for 45 guineas at the January sales. Servitor is F. W. Stowe's brown colt by Gainscourt from Queen's Maid, dam also of Trackman. The Unreasonable colt, a half-brother to is by Hunting Song, and is owned by his breeder, Mr; C. :E. Twist. " , , Quimper, the winner of the second juvenile division!-is a brown Ally by Arausio from the Multifid mare Chemise, the dam also of Kahu Ariki, Head Serang, Royal Shift, and Blue Shirt, and she carries .the jacket of her breeder-trainer, w. Gooseman. Queen's Own is a bay gelding by Gascony from the Lord Quex mare Lady Fera, dam also of Queen's Pride, and he is owned by his breeder,' Mrs. C. Haldane. Felicitation, a filly by Siegfried from the Demosthenes mare /Dissertation, dam also of Recitation, is owned by her breeder, Mr. P. F>. Wall. ■ Pylon, the winner of the. unraced novices' division, is a .«' four-year-old chestnut gelding by Colossns from the Polydamon—Melodise mare Semplice, a sister to Vivo and Agitato, and he is owned by; his trainer, G.WVB.,Greene. Nereus is a : three-year-old Tidal—Arab Sbna gelding owned by the trainer H. S. Greene; and Maharanui is a four-vear-old Callaghan—Lotus Lough.geMing owned by Mr. C. Derrett and in W. D. Young's stable.