GENERAL NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 52, 13 February 1928, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES.

Goblin Market put wp a race record when he won the Champagne Stakes at the Dunedin meeting in Imin. 14 3-ssec. Goblin Market, was got by Absurd from Cherry Mart, by Birkenhead from Martia, by Martian —Perolina by Persimmon. Two inquiries were held at Wingatui on Thursday. One was an investigation into interference suffered by Set Sail at the six-iurloug post, and the other was in respect or interference which Felony suffered in the Trial Stakes. In both cases the Judicial Committee saw no reason to go beyond investigation, and found that in each case the trouble was due to accident.

Pink Note, the winner of the Dunedin Cup was got by Paper Money from All Pink, by All Red—Luciana, by St. Legcr—hatipo, by Tregeagle from Pungawerewera, who won the Dunedin Cup of 1876. Pink Note real ly belongs to what might be termed a decadent family, as no good winners have come from the taproot for some time past (states the “Otago Daily Times’’ scribe). Apparently Paper Money, who represents the St. ■ Frusquin line of St. Sipion, has galvanised the taproot into fresh life. Crackshot, St. James, and Vogengang are the best known members of the tribe in tail female. St. James won the Dunedin Cup of 1890, and Crackshot the Auckland Cup ot 1891, but the really good winners tracing to the taproot are as oasis in a desert of mediocrity. Moth, the ancestress of Pink Note, was bred in 1847, by Sir John Jamieson, and came from a mare imported from the Cape of Good Hope.

In scoring a success m the Dunedin Cup Mr. J. A. Ainge landed his second important success, since he unfurled his “rose pink and black band” on the turf. His previous success standing out as worthy of note was scored by the Tractor filly Pink Terrace, who ranks as a halfsister to Pink Note.

Paper Money did very well at Wingatui on Thursday in siring the winner of the Dunedin Cup and the dead-heaters in the Publicans' Handicap.

Magna Charter is to race at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Summer Meeting, and it is probable his future efforts will be confined to hurdle racing. His half-brother. Landbird, had a successful innings over the fences and gave promise of better things when he unfortunately met his end at Riccartoii eighteen months ago.