FROM GOOD FAMILY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 5

FROM GOOD FAMILY

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. (Special to "The Post.") ,■- . AUCKLAND, This Day. Hunting Mac is to do his spring racing over the battens. He dis^ appointed a few times last season after scoring three times as a hurdler, and it seemed as if the weight found him out. Up to a mile and a half he has proved himself to be a good and proficient jumper, endowed with pace. Black Beret ran several good races as a two-year-old last season, but he had five runs before scoring last term, ana subsequent to winning at Paeroa in March' he j-egistered a second and a third. He ishould do well at the early spring meetings, and no doubt his owner will try to win again at Paeroa this month. ! Judged on the pace he revealed in the Jelhcoe Handicap, 1 mile, at the Pakuranga Meeting, Prince Rewa is I another, fit horse to undertake a spring i campaign, for he led the field for six I furlongs. This gelding looked like, developing into a good handicap performer, but he did only moderately well and his career as a hurdler has been not much better. It is possible, however, that he will be difficult to beat at the early fixtures, for he is a fit horse and a good jumper. I Sitara, the first foal of that good I little galloper Stretto (a half-sister by! Hunting Song to High Caste), pro-1 mised to be a jreally smart two-year-! old two years ago, but she won only1 once in five runs, that success being at the Waikato Spring Meeting. She did not race last season, but is coming along nicely in her preparation, and it is expected that she will be in action 1 again this spring; She is entered for! the Avondale fixture, and may also be! seen out at the two meetings at Paeroa towards the end of the month. One-of the fastest two-year-olds in the Auckland district last term was Ink Spot. She missed a place in her first outing, but then filled the role of runner-up to Nawab in both the Auckland Welcome and Avondale Stakes. However, that form was not perhaps as good as it may sound, for the opposition was weak. Ink Spot later defeated Gay Chat by .a nose at Te Rapa, although she missed a place in her other three runs. The Croupier filly should be able to hold her own in open sprint company this season, for she has a good turn of -speed. Leigh Hark made his bow on the Turf three years ago, but has yet to win. He finished third in the Seatoun Handicap at Trentham in July, following on a fourth in the Carbine Plate at Ellerslie a month earlier, so he can be regarded as a prospect with experience. He has been entered for events at coming northern meetings, and while the tracks remain- soft he can be regarded at least as a place proposition. Later in the season he may be tried as a jumper. A speedy two-year-old last term was Plassida, who, like My Bonnie, races in the colours of the southern sportsman and breeder. Mr. J. G. Alexander. The daughter of Coronach ran several good l-aces at two years, scoring a win in the . Fitzherbert Handicap at the Wellington Summer Meeting, in addition to running two seconds and a third in her Auckland efforts. Like many others, Plassida went out of the hack ranks with her one success, and her spring programme in the north will comprise sprint races, for which she is well suited. This filly is by the English Derby -victor Coronach from Golden Tsa, an Australian-bred mare by Gilt Edge from The Welkin mare Isa. Mr. Alexander has both these fillies engaged in next month's Great Northern Guineas, and in addition My Bonnie is in the Avondale Guineas.