PROMINENT AMONG WOODVILLE RUNNERS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22201, 11 December 1946, Page 8

PROMINENT AMONG WOODVILLE RUNNERS

FOUR WINS TO HAWKE’S BAY STABLES SIXTH BID 1Y DILEAS SUCCESSFUL (Herald Special Service.) The Woodville District Racing Club staged one of its most successful race meetings on the last two Saturdays.. The fields in all events on the two days were well filled and furnished first-class racing. Hastings and Greenmeadows stables furnished four winners, or half of the programme in Tracer, Trcncere, Morocco and IT a ere liuka, while place money was collctced by others. The financial result of this fixture would mean the club collecting perhaps, the best returns it has ever received from one fixture.

The chief race on Saturday went to Dileas, who the first day was the unlucky runner in the Bolton Handicap when finishing a close second to Merry Robin. The latter last week found the extra lllbs too much as he was not in the money. The same applies to Top Shot, who was third on the opening day.

Song from Love Token so that she is out of a full sister to Pakanui, a good performer of a lew years ago when owned by the late Mr. J. Reedy, Ruatoria.

All the three placed horses in the Woodville Juvenile Handicap were sired by New Zealand-bred sires as the runner-up. Kuinari, was got by Arvaivur and Beau Flight owns Sir Beau as her sire. Morocco’s Hack Sprint

Morocco did very well for a three-year-okl to win the hack sprint on Saturday from a fairly strong:, held with 9.5 on his back. lie is a brilliant galloper as said before. He is one of the most even-gaited gallopers in the Dominion to-day. His easy, effortless style is the direct cause of his galloping ability. He lias now won four races and in future will have to race in open company, but will be allowed to run out his hack engagements which are at Auckland. He is also in the Queen’s Plate, a race his owner-trainer, Mr. Arthur Meikle, might decide on as he will be given, perhaps, too much weight in the had. events.

In the 1944-45 season Dileas was successful in the W.R.C. Thompson Handicap, while last season he won only one race, and that ag Foxton from a small and not strong field. Pie has started five times this season prior to last Saturday’s success for four unplacings and his already-mentioned second. He is trained at Awapuni by the ex-Gisborne trainer, George New, and is owned by Messrs. McMillan, who used lo race Don Quex, winner of the Manawatu, Marton and Wellington Cups within a month.

Rcvivre made it the sixth time on end he has weighed-in this season without winning a race when on Saturday he was second to Morocco. He is a very (it gelding and must break it for a win very toon, ite is lo go on lo Otaki from Woodville to rati nevt Saturday. Ngakoti, who looked to be very unlucky last Saturday when running a ciose third to the stable mates, Ceremonious and Tanith, was again third last week-end and once again was not off the mark as smartly as some of his opponents. Maybe be will do better when he is raced over a longer course. Lady Delight, who has been racing fairly consistently this last month or so, was rewarded with a win in the Gorge Handicap at Woodville. She was until a few months ago trained by J. McLean at Ngatarawn. She is now an inmate of C. McCullough’s stable, but is still owned by Mr. J. A. Betts, Masterton. She is a dark chestnut four-year-old by the defunct Foxlight from Defy, who is another that goes back to tile imported Mermaid of the No. 14 family. Precedency, half-brother to Peter Robinson, rail his best race to date when finishing third to Lady Delight, and Prefa. He is raced by Mr. E. M. Langely, Hastings, and, as he has made .gradual improvement, might in the very near future win a race or two. He is by Tide Race out of Ildolize, by Arrowamith and possibly might do better when raced o\cr middle distances. In the last race at Woodville, Hnstin is stables filled all three first places when Hacre Huka beat Citation and Desert Fox. mis was the winner's second win. Recent!.,- he j has rather disappointed his connections, who, j however, did enjoy a nice little win over the [ week-end. He is by the New Zealand bred | sire, Legatee, from Onepu, a mare that traces 1 back to the unnumbered Sharkie tap-root, but from whom descended many good perforators including the “Black Demon” Advance, the New Zealand Cup winner, Tortulla and many others over a course of years.

Dileas was got by Dink from Cradle Song by Lucullus from Husheen, a mare that was bred at the Kavamu Stud, Hastings, being a product of Ilymettus and Snooze, dam of Napper, and tracing back to the imported mare, Hammock.

Carnforth, who at Feilding the second day was third, went one better than that on Saturday at Woodville when he chased Dileas home. Carnforth has been in the money three times this season and has had many unplacings He is not an easy gelding to follow and is finding it rather difficult to make the open grade since winning the £750 Autumn Hack Plate at the last Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting. Carnforth is owned and trained by J. M. Cameron, the well known Hastings trainer and is to have a shot at the forthcoming £1750 Manawatu Cup on December 21.

Financial again ran a poor race at Woodville. It is possible that the fall he sustained on the first day of the Wellington Racing Club's spring meeting held at Awapuni is the reason of his recent failures. To all outward appearances he has made a full recovery, but maybe he is not himself. In the past he has run some splendid races to score in the best of company. After his second in the first day’s sprint. Fortune’s Smile ran below expectations in the £SOO Gothard Handicap on Saturday. He has won over middle distances in better company and his failure in his last effort is a lit.tle disquietening. Railway Handicap Winner

It was pleasing to see Desert Fox doing a little better, although he received only third money. He is taking some time to come right, but good judges predict that he will develop into a good class handicap performer by the late autumn, or next season.

A horse that has been disappointing his connections of late for no apparent reason after good track work is Theocritus, who on the first day at Woodvilie never looked like being in the money. However, on Saturday he was in his best galloping mood to collect the Railway Handicap, but he was not allowed to pay as much as his recent form suggested he would. He was bred at the Flaxmere Stud and is by Theo from Odavarb, by Iliad from Bravado (dam of Bluffer, Orakau and Royal Glory, winner of the G.N. Oaks), by Psychology from War Scare (dam of Estland, Finmark and Highland), by Martian from Gossio (dam of Bobrikoff), by Wallace and a member of the No. 10 family. Shining Ring had to put up with another minor place on Saturday when acting as runner-up to Theocritus. This makes four minor placings in a row. She was better away from the barrier .than the previous week, but was beaten by the winner on account of his superior speed. The Ringmaster filly races at O.taki this week-end. Findon found the distance too short, but the race would do him more good than harm. He pullled up remarkably well and will go on to Ofaki where lie is engaged next Saturday in both the middle distance open race and the sprint, but it is more than likely that he will start in a former race and that it will be his last before the Manawatu Cup later this month. Tracer at Last

Tracer has at last won a race. Previous to his success last Saturday in the Papafawa Hurdles at Woodvi,lle, he had been no less than six times second over the battens. Those placings had taken him to 10-7, or the same weight that Grand Central was awarded and he has won two hurdle races and as many flat events. However Grand Central ran nowhere, so that the weight adjustor seems to have been correct. Tracer was allowed to bowl along freely in his recent win and, as suggested in the Herald last week, this mode of riding seems to suit him better. At any rate he did win. He is a five-year-old chestnut gelding, trained for Mr. Alex. McCormick bv Harry Greene and was got by Skycracker by Agincourt, a mare bred in Gisborne by Mrs. E. M. Pardoe and got by Gainscourt from that one-time useful mare Actifid. by Muntifud from Pyrdine, by Strowan from Chibouk. by Emir Boy from Moonstone, by Leonato from May Moon, who was got by Dainty Ariel. Theolaterial, who nad been schooling attractively at Awapuni, ran his best hurdle race to date when running second to Tracer and it might not be long ere he wins a jumping event. This grey son of Theio, who won the C.J.C. Stewards handicap a couple of years ago, has not won a race since winning a sprint event at the Hawke’s Bay Hunt meeting in August, 1945. Charles Edward’again .went a little better to collect third money in the hurdles. He has not been in tiie money for about two years, so that lie is well on the wrong side of the ledger. He is a fine tug gelding and. although past his prime or the age after which horses improve, it is possible that Miss Grace Twist, his owner, will yet be rewarded with a win bv the Lord Quex gelding. Novice Dead Heat

Cincture and Castelbrae dead heated in the first division of the Novice event at Woodville. The former has a bit of a reputation in private, but this was the first time he had won a race. He now goes out of the maiden grade with only half a win. He is a three- . race d by his breeder, Mr. G. M. Currie, and trained by G. New and was got by the' imported Ringmaster from Imposture, a descendant of Eulogy. '

Castelbrae, who had raced six times this season without once weighing-m, is also a three-year-old being by Robin Goodfellow from the Cockpit mare Arena, the dam of The Champ, Lady Nahleen and The Stormovik,. all win. - ners.

the second division of the Novice event went to Superior Fox, a four-year-old who raced twice only last season without being in the money and who had not started this season. He is a chestnut by Foxbridge from Superior, by Colossus from Rillet, by Acre, tracing back to Mermaid through Spring and the Brook. Treneere is another two-year-old now to be added to the winning hst ot juveniles. Before the season closes, if. they go on at the ,-ame rate, the class will be well over the half hundred. - / Pl ?? ei ', e ’? *' le first horse raced by. Mr. i ■ V 1 Hastings, and is trained n i Lvan She is a chestnut. In all her four races to date she has been in the can so that the win was not a i‘ together unexpected. She was foaled by Defaulter from Dahis. by Hunting