GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 304, 10 December 1929, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

Already . accommodation has been arranged for the following horses for the Egmont meeting: Goshawk, Hunting Day, Star Stranger, Knightlike, Curtsey, The Hawk, Cylinder, Shrewd, Chopin, Skyridcr, Novar.

Since F. Tilley produced Cadland with some effect at Otaki his new horses have come into the public eye. He has a maiden plater for the Woodville meeting in Platina, a three-year-old filly by Callaghan from Isabel. This filly is thus a half-sister to Cashier and Otairi. Isabel was a fine mare and Callaghan, although he has not had great chances at the stud, has sired one or two fair horses. As he is by the Desmond horso Fairy King from Penny Forfeit, by Forfarshire from Pennywise, he is bred well enough. Platina has not been raced, but reports from Wanganui are to the effect that she can gallop. It is almost too much to expect that Tilley has another Cadland.

The Egmont Cup entries include Concentrate, who was a good three-year-old last season, winning both St. Legers. He ran second in the Canterbury Cup to Chide and is engaged in the Auckland Cup. The effort of Concentrate at Egmont, if started, will be viewed with interest in view of his engagements at Ellerslie.

• * » Cylinder ran unplaced in the Avondale Stakes and also in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie but by the manner in which he performed at Feilding he will have to be reckoned with if taken north for the Great Northern Foal Stakes He is one of Jefferd's team and is by Limond from Cymene, an English-bred mare, who cost Mr. A. B. Williams 2250g5. She had Cylinder at foot then and was in foal again to Limond.

H Wiggins will be at the Woodville meeting this week, where he has been engaged to ride Moa Bird, Gesture, Goldlikc, Royal Parade and Black Acre in their respective races.

Ruanui is reported to be very well and is expected to pay expenses during the holiday meetings. This horse is very useful up to a mile and a quarter.

Paitonu ranks as one of the good middle distance performers in Taranaki. He has had one raco this season and then ran Black Duke to a head over a mile at Wellington. It was a promising “first up” effort and the son of Bisogne has only to go on the right way to pick up some stakes shortly.

Nothing was given a chance in the Feilding Stakes against Paganelh excepting Ceremony, but the Absurd gelding, who had performed so well in Sydney, ran a shocking race. It was not his true form and the heavy tracks may have had something to do with his downfall. Ceremony races best under a light weight, and with 13 pounds off his back he may surprise many in the Auckland Racing Club Railway Handicap.—(“Moturoa.”

W. Rayner intends taking Pedestal and Drastic to the Woodville meeting, says the Wanganui “Herald.” On Saturday morning the two ran half a mile. The former jumped away a couple of lengths to the good, ran the first furlong in 12 1-5, the quarter in 24 4-5, finishing up against half a gale of wind in 52. Pedestal was some four lengths back.

Rabbi won the Feilding Cup under 8.8, and won well, so that 9 stone cannot bo regarded as a prohibitive weight at Hawera, says “Moturoa” in discussing Egmont Cup weights. Shrewd, who was weighted at 7 stone, but carried 7.5 into second place to Rabbi, may trouble Rabbi on 61bs better terms. Shrewd was not well placed in the middle stages of the Feilding Cup, and came round several horses on the two last bends. A repetition of that finishing run would make him dangerous on a track like that at Hawera; in fact, Shrewd looks, on figures, the pick of the handicap.

One of the remarkable facts of breeding is the variation of success in connection with the different strains of blood, writes “Sentinel” in the Dunedin “Times.” At present everyone is talking about the wonderful success of Martian mares. At the same time it is difficult to say much in favour of a Martian horse, al though he has several sons at the stud. The same remark applied with equal force to Goldsborough, whose daughters bred on with great success, but he never left a son able to carry on his line. A northern writer expresses the opinion that the success of some of the New Zealand horses in Australia is based on the Traducer blood in their dams. Since the days of Traducer breeding has advanced many generations, and it should not be overlooked that we have the same line in tail male with Tea Tray and Tractor, who are both Herod line horses. Both of them may leave daughters invaluable for the stud because their pedigrees are full of the best strains in the Stud Rook. Romeo (by Flying Fox from Glare)—Bright Steel (by St. Simon from Glare), and Positano mares are amongst those that should be treasured because if they do not produce immediate success their generally successful blood will eventually prove valuable. Daughters of Paper Money and Absurd will produce well because the speed of the stock show the perfect machinery of conformation that is necessary in the successful racehorse. A correspondent who asks a question on the matter is thus briefly replied to on what lines of mares aro likely to he successful nt the stud for one starting breeding on a small scale.