GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 137, 24 May 1928, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

Acceptances for the two Great Northerns, Cornwall Handicap, ana minor races on the first day at Ellerslie and acceptances for Otaki are due' on Friday. Napier Park entries close on Friday, June 1.

Hymestrason has been rehandicapped 9.9 in the Trial Hurdles at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meeting. The jockey A E. Ellis, who waa injured at the Ashburton County Racing Club’s recenj meeting, was discharged from hospital on Monday Good as Gold and Royal Head have been shipped to Sydney. » » »

Overdrawn is the only horse engaged in the Dunedin Birthday Handicap with form up to a mile and a-half and also beyond that distance. He was third in the New Zealand Cup and ' Metropolitan, and also placed in the Otago Handicap last season. All hi s best performances were achieved under a light-weight, and the fact suggests that he is not a good weight carrier. At 81b. above the minimum in the Birthday Handicap he would score the easiest win of the meeting if he ran to the form he displayed last season.

Sir George Clifford has disposed of the three-year-old colt 9 Homegate and Tearaway. Homegate has been purchased bv G Murray-Aytisley. and will be used as a station sire. Tearaway will also be used for stud purposes. His new owner is Mr. L. J. Feehney. of Ashburton

Elysianor changed hands during the Wanganui meeting, the Elysian uelding being purchased by Mr V. Edhouse, of Bulls, who was negotiating for him three weeks ago. but the deal, when practically completed, was broken off owing to Elvsianor suffering an injurv to a leg. He has recovered and goes into J. Coyle’s stables at Awapuni. The price was stated to be £2OO and contingencies.

Not for many years ha s Hugh Cairns ridden in jumping events, hut at the Aspendale meeting (Victoria), on April 5, he piloted ITrbani in the hutrile race.. It is nothing new for Cairns to ride in hurdle races and steeplechases. A few years ago he was one of the leading, hurdle riders, and he also had experience of crosscountry riding in New Zealand. Cairns won the Victorian Grand National Hurdle Race on Merunqua and the Australian Hurdle Race on Falstolf and Van Homreigh.