A LINK TO HOLIDAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 22

A LINK TO HOLIDAYS

FEILDING MEETING

VALUE OF FORM DISCLOSED

The Feilding Jockey Club's Spring Meeting is one of the more important links from spring So summer form at this end of the North Island, but as might be expected in a period of transition, the winning form disclosed there has not always been too reliable for following over the Christmas and New /Year holidays. Tiger Gain was one horse in recent years who was capable of going on from Feilding to better deeds—in 1933 and 1937 he succeeded at Feilding prior to winning his two Manawatu Cups—and last year, gave another exception when Dv Maurier also took the Feilding Manchester Han-dicap-Manawatu Cup double. The racing at Feilding on Saturday and Monday next might therefore again give some valuable clue to those j searching for leading holiday winners. The Manchester Handicap. For several years the Feilding Cup was decided at the November fixture of the club, but since 1936 the Cup has been reserved for Easter and the feature race of the opening day, run over the same distance of 1J miles, has been named the Manchester Handicap. The title name is that of one of Feilding's main thoroughfares, which in turn was named after the old Manchester Block, on which the town was founded nearly eighty years ago. Racing at Feilding has a history of at least sixty years. Good Quality Field. The field for the Manchester Handicap at Feilding on Saturday is of good quality and it promises to provide a fine race. The form is even which makes it difficult to forecast the favourite. Friesland whc. was third to The Buzzer and Rollicker at Waverley, does not usually take long incoining to hand, and he drops down 21b on Saturday to meet Rollicker at 81b better terms for the two lengths margin between them at Waverlej. Rollicker has come solid, and, on tne belief that he might have won on both days at Levin if he had not left the course on the first day, he looks to be the form horse to beat. Homily, Areas, and Kilometre all ran well at Trentham last month, and it would not surprise if Areas, who promises «o win good handicaps this season, was near favourite. Dv Maurier is back from a turn at hurdling. Charles Edward, star staying hack at Trentham last month, will be having his first start in the grade and he may not be long in making it. Meamea and Aurora's Star will need to improve on Levin and Ruatiti would be liked becter on a roomier track.

Plenty of Winning Form. . As with the Manchester Handicap, the issue in the Flying Handicap the open sprint at Feilding on Saturday, is liable to prove tricky, as so many horses have a definite chance on *ecent form and weight in itself is not always too safe a criterion on which , to base judgment in short races. Among , recent winners are Sir Crusoe (at Trentham), Rakahanga (at Riccarton), Lord Cavendish (at Levin), Kentucky (at Riccarton), Red. Cat (at Bulls), Black Robe (at Stratford), and Wings of Song (at Levin), which is a sufficient galaxy of form rather to dim the prospects of the non-winners, Old Bill Tuatara, Air Flight, and Sea Lin^. Old' Bill and Tuatara, however, were second in their most recent start—Old Bill being dropped 41b, on the rather risky assumption that he. is not a sprinter. And- Air Flight has not raced since Easter. The favourite will probably be the Tor dell bracket. Red Cat and Tuatara. Harina's Chance. j There are three open races on the first day at Feilding, and the third of the trio, the Kiwitea Handicap. 7 furlongs has attracted the smallest field of the day. Among the acceptors is Rollicker, who is also in the Manchester Handicap and might be found contesting both events, as he has done previously this season. Despite its size, the Kiwitea is not going to be easy to win. Harina's form at Riccarton, when she ran third to Ruatiti and Nigger Boy on the second day and then dead-heated with Hearth for first on the final day, looks very inviting; Notium, last year's winner with the same weight, has always shown a liking for the course; and Colossal Chief and Hasten are two recruits from hack grade who might not be long m winning open events. Segra as Hurdler. Few hurdles races have been won more easily than Monday's was at Levin. Segra, nominated for only the one day, simply played with his opponents, and as there is nothing new of any note to face him at Feilding on Saturday it is difficult to countenance his possible defeat, except by some error of his own. A costly yearlmg who could not leave maiden ranks on the flat, he was successful in his first start as a jumper last term, and, though immediately subsequently he did not live up to the promise in four Other appearances, he benefited with a respite and has now won facilely at both starts he has had this term. A five-year-old brown gelding, he is a son of Siegfried and the Feramorz — Tressida mare Polly Peachum, a.halfsister to Runnymede and My Own (dam of Yours Truly) and the dam earlier of McHeath (who was a use--ful jumper) and Jenny Diver: Flans with Beau Pere. The phenomenal success achieved by Beau Vite, Beaulivre, and other progeny of Beau Pere has placed that sire, well in the limelight, and there is a demand for his services not only In Australia, where he is located at the i St. Aubins Stud, New South Wales,bur also elsewhere. His owner, Mr.! W. J. Smith, intends to exploit the j services of Beau Pere to the full, and next February he intends to send him to California to do another season to Northern Hemisphere time, when the Son-in-Law horse will be mated with a dozen selected mares owned by Mr. Louis B. Mayer, head of the MetroGold wyn-Mayer Film Corporation. Turf News in Brief. Otaki has split its winter fixture, originally planned for two days in May, with two separate meetings on i April 5 and May 17 respectively. I The connections of Recollection have j decided not to appeal further against j the reversal Of placings at the Wellington Meeting last month. ! Trekalong. who- is due to have his , first start in the Feilding Juvenile1 Stakes on Saturday, is the next of the Safaris to race. He is out of Bon £hie, a half-sister to Defaulter's dam, and he is owned by Mrs. W. Higgins. Algerian, who has not raced« since completing a row" "of three victories with the Nolan Cup at Hawera last February, is to- be put back into work shortly ,at Wanganui in the expectation that he ;will, stand a further preparation. He is a half-brother by Beau Pere to' Lowenb. e,rg. The leading apprentice jockey in the Dominion just now is N. Howard, who is attached' to -I.' "Tinsley's stable at Gisborne. He has had a good run in minor races, and has 12 wins to his credit for the season to date; He is to go into camp shortly. Greenock, who has bottom weight in the Feilding Juvenile Stakes, was considered good enough to take up to Avondale for the Avondale Stakes, and though she has failed in three starts to date she might yet make amends. She is a daughter of Phaleron Bay and the Chief Ruler mare Greenwich, who herself won at Feilding in the spring