NEWS AND VIEWS

Evening Star, Issue 25618, 19 October 1945, Page 3

NEWS AND VIEWS

[By Watcher.]

Nominations for the Winton meeting are due to-day at 5 p.m. The Joker is among those in work at Wingatui. It is reported that Joygiver met with an accident on the journey to Lyttelton. .However, it is considered he will be able to start at Trentham.

Three races at the Waikato Hunt Club’s annual meeting on Labour Day will be run in divisions.

Bonny Flight sprinted well at Trentham on Tuesday, and will be very hard to beat in the Shorts Handicap. Over 20 South' Island-trained horses are engaged at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting. Master Robin has not been pleasing the critics in recent work. Kuri, one of the favourites for the Wainui Handicap at Trentham, is a four-year-old by Foxbridge—Black Cat, and is trained by D. Marks. He won in his only appearance so far this season.

Bruce recently knocked a foreleg, and is not quite at his best at present. Sing Sing, who is more likely to start in the President’s Handicap at Gore, will be ridden by G. Barclay. J. B. Pringle has been engaged to drive all the horses trained by 11. J. Smith.

Nightbeam showed good form on a recent trip to Auckland, and looks well placed to-morrow on the same course.

Gulf Stream was withdrawn from the Shorts Handicap at Trentham at 3.25 p.m. yesterday. Colonel Vaals was scratched at 2.25 for all engagements.

The usual problem for punters is again in evidence in the fields to be seen out on the first day of the Wellington Racing'Club’s meeting. There are some important spring handicaps and classics to be decided.

Latest scratchings for Trentham include Batal (Guineas and Harcourt Stakes), Black Ace, Lady Scholar, Ruling Master, Essay, and Lady Chips. Ramicourt has not repeated the form he showed when winning the Whyte Handicap at Trentham m July. He has 31b more in the Wainui Handicap to-morrow than he carried to.an easy win in the Trentham Handicap. . Blue Bonny, who recorded a smart half-mile at Trentham yesterday, was not seen out last season, but in the previous one, as a two-year-old, he won the Spring Nursery Handicap at Riccarton from Joygiver arid Intense, finished second to Silvio in the _ Hastings Stakes, second bo Piccolo in the Russley Handicap, at Riccarton, and third to Bridge Acre and Pensacola in the Pioneer Handicap, run on the same course. •

Volo Senwod, Knave of Diamonds, and Joan Conquest are assessed on 4.23 and Lady Dawn on 4.25, and to confirm their entry must reduce their assessments to 4.22 before handicaps are declared on Thursday next. They are engaged at the Auckland Trotting Club’s Spring Meeting to-morrow and Monday, and will have an opportunity to qualify for the Addington race. A sound two miles by the three-year-old Highland Fling oh the outside of the course proper, and a smart mile by War Guard, on the dirt, were the main features of the training, at Epsom on Tuesday morning. Both tracks were in good order. Bay Machine. Cry Baby, Red Ace, Heliopolis, Whanako, Sandiways, Mighty, and Suspense were among others to go well on the grass, and Bill Ova, Anna Wrack, and Ena Parrish were responsible for smart efforts on the dirt. War Guard beat Stuart Lee over a mile in 2.10 2-5. The former is reported to be in great heart. Neenah, who finished second to Theophilus in the Shorts Handicap at Ellerslie on Saturday, was to have left yesterday for Australia (says the New Zealand ‘ Herald ’). .He will go into J. Fryer’s stable at Melbourne to be prepared for weight-for-age races. Since he ran unplaced at .Tauranga in the Jack Tanner (Memorial Stakes for two-year-olds, in March, 1941, Neenah, who is now a seven-year-old, has contested 61 races for 13 firsts, nine seconds, and five thirds, and £7,477 in stakes. The son of Foxbridge and Quincama has won good handicaps up to one mile under big imposts. He carried 9.5 to victory in the Auckland Railway Handicap, and 9.13 to win the Pukekohe Handicap at Te Rapa, both run over six furlongs. He scored in the York Handicap, one mile, at Ellerslie, with 9.5.