AGAIN IN WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 12

AGAIN IN WORK

FURTHER TEST FOR NAWAB

(Special to "The Post.")

AUCKLAND, This Day. An interesting entrant for the Great Northern Hurdles is Sir Ringman, so evidently he is making good progress after receiving a malicious injury on the eve of the Auckland Autumn Meeting a month ago. Dinky Di seems to be a hopeless case, for he continues to race without getting in the money.' He retains his pace and generally manages to get a forward position in good sprint company, but is without a finishing run. Last season he was tried as a hurdler, with the same result. Perhaps he will go back to the jumping business when the winter fixtures start in earnest. Several novice hurdlers will be seen hi action in the near future, among them Brief, Sporting Nation, and Bronzo. The last-named has easily the best form of the trio on the flat and that he is destined for jumping is evident by his entry for the Great Northern Hurdles.

Sporting Nation is without form on the flat, but he seems likely to make good as a hurdler, for he has shown proficiency in his schooling efforts Brief has been a rank failure on the flat, his one good effort being when he ran second, beaten a head, in his first race as a two-year-old. He is a bit on the small side, but has revealed promise in his schooling. Royal Duchess, the winner of last season's Great Northern Oaks, seems to be coming back to form, for in recent handicap events she has made forward showings; in her last two outings she was up with the leading bunch setting out for the run home. She is down to race at Whangarei next Saturday, after which she may go to the Te Aroha Meeting. She is in the Cornwall Handicap at Ellerslie. A recent arrival from the South Island is the four-year-old gelding Upton, and he will probably be hunted here to qualify for hunters' races later in the winter. In his three seasons' racing he has failed to gain a place, in spite of being well bred; he is a halfbrother to Philemup, a useful galloper in the north several years ago. Nawab is back on the tracks at Ellerslie and is beginning to take racing shape »once again. As a two-year-old he was the best in the north early in his season but then lost form, a wind affliction being suspected. However, this is not evident at the present time, although he has only been kept to short sprints. In his five starts at two years Nawab scored three firsts and a second. He comes from the same family as High Caste and other smart gallopers.

A hack making good progress is Beau Siri, who scored a surprise win in a hack sprint at Paeroa last month. He did not go to Te Rapa for today's racing and it may not be until either Whangarei next week or Te Rapa a fortnight later that he will make his reappearance.

Three speedy Takanini two-year-olds were included in the 10 young» sters nominated for the Trial Stakes at Whangarei. They were Interceptor, Available, and Fiorin. The first-named has always shown pace in his races but has failed to run on. Available has only to leave the barrier to be a possibility in this class. Fiorin has been unplaced in his three outings but he galloped well enough .at Takanini this week to be a prospect Apart from a couple of wins in the hack class in the early months, the form of Sousa this season has been disappointing. He is in good order and has been freely entered for coming meetings, so he will not lack opportunities. He is a good stayer, and it may not be long before he has bridged the gap between hack and open class. The Takanini trainer W. Clifton has a useful team to represent him at the remaining meetings on the country circuit—Whangarei, Te, Aroha, and Te Rapa—prior to the Great Northern fixture. La Fillette, Peter Gregor, and Park Royal are all in good fettle. The softer tracks will favour Peter Gregor Constitution was not paid up for in the Churchill Handicap at Te Rapa this afternoon and it would seem that his mission will be the Cornwall Handicap, .which he won decisively last June. It is pqssible that he will make an appearance' again before the Great Northern fixture, at either Te Aroha or rf, -Rapa next month. Two years ago the. Cornwall Handicap was run m divisions, and with an entry of 52 for this season's contest it may again be run as two races.