TRACK & STABLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20176, 20 February 1940, Page 3

TRACK & STABLE

BEAUVITE’S NEXT

THE TARANAKI STAKES

PUNCANNON'S TRIP

THOMPSON IN VIEW

By "Trenton”

Beau Vite, who will probably be sent to New Plymouth for the Tara r naki Stakes, was physicked last week, but lie is back on the tracks at Trentham and, except that he has lightened up temporarily, he looks as well as ever. Duncannon will probably accompany Beau Vite to Taranaki, and he will then be reserved for the Wellington meeting, where one of his nominations will be the Thompson Handicap. Trentham Horses Three two-year-olds at Trentham who have not yet been raced are Yurilla, a shapely chestnut daughter of Colossus and the imported mare Pebble 11, a bay filly by Nightly from Knock Out, and a bay filly by Lord Warden from Night Eruption’s dam, Molten. Yurilla is held on lease by Mr. E. J. Adams, who is training her himself, and the other pair are under the care of P. Burgess. Yurilla will probably have her first outing at Woodville and the Nightly filly is to race at Easter.

Staying Blood If New Zealand does not continue to breed stayers it will not be because breeders are not importing sires with the right blood. Martian, Kilbroney, and others have gone, but their daughters are breeding on, and there are plenty of mares with Musket and St. Simon blood. Among the sires imported during recent years are'Baffles, Bulandshar, Blandonian and SolicitorGeneral, all by Blandford; Foxbridgc, Foxlight, Posterity, Siegfried, of the Son-in-Law family; Defoe, Lord Warden, Hunting Song, by Hurry On; Man’s Pal and Revelation, by Manna; Tideracey by Fairway; Salmagundi, Phaleron Bay, and Myosotie, by Phalaris;’ Night Raid, by Radium; Lord Quex, by Lemberg; St. Boswells and Vermeer, by Solario.

Highly Regarded 'The Iliad—Set Sail thrCe-year-old filly Southern Sail, a winner at Gore, is highly regarded in the south. At the Gore spring meeting Southern Sail, 8.2,- was third to Mondello, 8.1, and Heidelberg. 9.3. In her next start Southern Sail, 7.12, was third to Scarteen, 8.3, and Turncoat, 7.8, in the Trial Handicap at Wingatui. In the Novice Handicap run on the second day she was beaten a head by Racewell, and at Wyndham on New Year's Day ran third to Pink Bond and Isla.V Downs.

Forty-Hour Week "Since the introduction of the 40hour week the business of bookmakers has dwindled, because of people having more time to attend race meetings at week-ends,” said Mr. E. B. Tustin, who appeared for two Wanganui men who were charged with allowing their premises to be used as common gaming houses. However, counsel’s plea did not prevent the magistrate inflicting fines totalling £125.

Bungarvan Working

Duiigarvan has rejoined the active having been hacked about during his hacifig been hacked about during his spell. He will resume racing at Trentham next month, when he will probably contest the sprints. Later on he may be given the chance of distinguishing himself as a hurdler if he shows more liking for the game than he has in some schools he has had. ,

Old Bill Sprints Although Awapuni stables had horses racing at Wanganui and at Hawera, the working during the past two or three weeks has not been of a serious nature, horses who raced during the January meetings having been allowed to freshen up. Among them is Old Bill, who might be given his next racing at Woodville. Old Bill sprinted half a mile last week, the last three furlongs in 39 2-ssec. He is reported to have put on some condition since his victory in the Wellington Cup and to be in wonderful order.

Changes at Trentham Except that the stakes for the two highweight events have each been increased by £SO to £350, the prize money remains the same as last year for the Wellington Racing Club’s autumn meeting, to be held on March 14 and 16. The total offering is £7BOO. The two highweight events will be run over a distance of one mile and three furlongs instead of one mile and a quarter. Mile and a-quarter races have been deleted at all future Wellington meetings.

English-Bred Filly The fifth of the English fillies offered at the Trentham sales, Empire Rose, was purchased privately at a substantial figure by Mr. J. M. James, of Wangaehu, Masterton. This particularly smart-looking filly has since been leased by the Te Awamutu trainer A. Cook. Empire Rose is a half-sister to no fewer than five winners. She is by the young Son-in-Law horse Empire Builder, who won the Liverpool St. Leger, Prince of Wales Stakes, and so on, and had the distinction of running second to Brown Jack in the Doncaster Cup and beating the St. Leger winner Bosworth in the Atlantic Cup. Empire Builder, whb is out of a daughter of the famous sire The Tetrarch, has made a very promising start at the stud.

Empire Rose, who at the termination of her racing career, will be used by Mr. James as a foundation mare for his stud, is descended from the famous mare Feronia, ancestress of many winners and granddam of the famous sire and Derby winner Ayrshire and of Lily of the Valley, dam of the great sire Valais. The remaining filly, by Tommy Atkins from Cloelia, by Lanccgaye from Cleone, by The Tetrarch, who was passed in to Mr. Frank Ormond’s bid of 500gns., has not yet been sold. This filly has a double cross of Carbine blood both through her sire and her dam.