SPORTING

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 May 1925, Page 6

SPORTING

HAMILTON RACING CLUB. REMAINING RESULTS. (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, April 30. For the. two days the totalisator put through £53,979. Following are the remaining results :— Terore Handicap, I 4 miles. —Sans Gene 1, Peter Rosa 2, Star of the East 3. Also started—Trill. Won by two lengths.- Time 2.11 2-5-Highweight Handicap, 1 mile —Curea form 1, Black Cruiser 2, Drawbridge 3. Also started —Esthonia, Passionate, Potoanui, Right and Left, Ihapotoa, Doleful Ditty, White Comet, Miss Vera and Amiform. Won by a neck. Tim'e 1.44 2-5. Terapa Handicap, 6 furlongs.— Archeen 1, Golden Bubble 2, Broadwood 3. Also started—Civility, Dan Quin, Finen’i, Day Guard, Loch Abbey, Peter Maxwell and King Cheops. Won by a length. Time 1.15. Consolation Handicap, 7 furlongs.— King Pot 1, Kingsmok 2, General Pryde 3. All started. Time 1.26 2-5.

RACING NEWS AND NOTES.

(By

“Arlington.”)

Mr. W. S. Clark, owner of Prince Charleroi, was an interested spectator at Riccarton on Wednesday morning. The prints of Gloaming, Desert Gold, and Sasanof being issued by the makers of Three Castles and Capstan cigarettes, have been received by this scribe, and are well worthy the trouble of obtaining them. There have been no better productions of their kind, and few as good. These prints are being presented for the return of Three Castles and Capstan Packets; after the style of the “All Blacks” photogravure scheme, and the photo of Gloaming was specially taken for this purpose, and is considered by Mr. Mason to be one of the finest that has ever been taken of this famous equine. Suitably framed, they would not be out of place on any wall. The Hawk has arrived back in the Dominion, and Gloaming or no Gloaming he will contest the big event at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s meeting. That is barring accidents. The Hawk reached Wellington on Tuesday, after a good, passage from Sydney. As yet, no jockey has been selected to ride him. The Hawk has met the Australian cracks Heroic and The Night Patrol in four races, and has beaten them on each occasion. He has yet to meet Gloaming. The old chaftipion nearly put the watclms out of action at Riccarton on 'Wednesday morning. Mr. Greenwood’s great horse is in wonderful buckle, and will carry the confidence of this scribe on Friday next. The Hawk, whose gross winnings now exceed £23,000. has started in 62 races, for 24 wins, 8 seconds, 10 thirds, and 20 unplaced efforts. £16,500 of the amount won by the Martian gelding, has been credited to J. M. Cameron.

It is understood that. Surveyor has been permanently retired to the stud. Commenting upon R. J. Mason’s opinion that Gloaming is a better horse than Carbine over a short course, a Melbourne writer says it is not difficult to agree with that opinion. It would be generally endorsed. But it might be that they would not need to go very far before Carbine would catch up- tff Gloaming. In giving the honours as a sprinter to Gloaming, it must not be forgotten that Old Jack could also go some over a short course. He won his two-year-old engagements in smashing style, and the speed he thus early displayed was retained. Walter Hickenbotham tried Carbine very highly for a Newmarket Handicap. With good shoes on, the Musket horse early beat that highclass sprinter, Fishwife, over six furlongs, on the sand, in 1.17—a rare bit of galloping for this particular track. Carbine was beaten in the Newmarket, but Hickenbotham has always stoutly declared that he should have been much closer up at the finish. So, after all, it is quite possible that there would not have been a wide margin between Gloaming and Carbine for

pace. For favouritism in the All Aged Stakes at Randwick it was a “see-saw” with Heroic and The Hawk. The speculation in this race was very keen (says the “Herald”). Beauford moved very gingerly, and it was almost tragic to see the old chap nursing the off fore leg. Reference in this respect is made to the gelding’s action going to the barrier. Heroic, for some reason or another, dislikes starting in a race. He turned his tail in the direction that his head was intended for, and was left. When the field was sent away Heroic was anything between ten to twelve lengths last—a hopeless position—and Harrison, wisely, did not worry the colt. Pike jumped The Hawk out first from Whittier and Beauford, but at the six-furlongs post Whittier ran to. the front, followed by Beauford, The Hawk, and The Night Patrol. Beauford, on the outside, had a half-length or so . advantage from Whittier at the next furlong, where’ The Night Patrol “sneaked” up in front of The Hawk. Pike, however, was not in a hurry, and into the straight he was content to allow Whittier and Beauford to ran in front of The Hawk- It was not until within the half-distance that The Hawk was “given his head,” and that was the end of it. It is difficult to suggest what would have happened had Heroic got away with the others, but The HawkPike combination, in this class of race, appears invincible. Old eßauford struggled along behind the placed horses, and probably this race is his rice, appears invincible. Old Beauford cially placed three-quarters of a length in front of Whittier, the race was won in a canter.