GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 69, 5 March 1930, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

Acceptances for the first day of the Wellington Racing Club’s autumn meeting, which is Ito be held on Saturday and Monday, March 15 and 17, will close on Friday next at 9 p.m.

Nominations for the autumn mooting of the Manawatu Racing Club, to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, March 26 and 27, also forfeit for the Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes and the Manawatu Stakes, will close on Friday next at 9 p.m. • * *

Backers of Mithra, a good second favourite in the Hot Springs Handicap at Te Aroha, did not get a run for their coin. When the lever was pulled Mithra got caught in the tapes and she took no part in the contest.

Though Leitrim, the favourite in tho big sprint on the first day at Te Aroha, won all right, the son of Valkyriari had to be hunted along by Gray to secure the verdict by a neck from Lucy Rose, who put in some telling work in the straight and was only a neck away at the post. Though the favourites were completely bowled over in the Champion Hack' Cup at Te Aroha, the finish was a real beauty, and Spring Abbey, Te Hdia, and Helium, till at good prices, went past the judge almost in line, a dead-heat being declared between Spring Abbey and To Hoia, with Helium a neck away. ♦ # « Gay Crest duly signalised his recent change of owner and trainer hy scoring a very decisive win at the Banks Peninsula meeting. As he had been out of F. D. Jones’s-hands only a few days, that trainer’s is still the credit of ' getting the horse ready. The success popular as ths new owner, Dr. G. M. Louisson, has not had much luck with histteani lately

That Eager Rose had a good thing on in the llerries Memorial Handicap at Te Aroha on Saturday is shown by the way she won the big event ol tlio second day under a substantial rise in weight. Though the Day Comet--Wee Rose mare is a fairly consistent performer, she generally pays a good dividend, but hackers were ready for her on Monday and made her favourite. TetraTchate, who went out 13th down the betting to win the Shaftesbury Handicap nt Te Aroha. is a three-year-old gelding by Tea Tray, and was the first foal of the Thnrnliam—Duchi ss EndofUs mare Volopia.

He is owned and trained by Mr C. M. Emanuel, who had the pleasure of lifting a dividend running up to about the score. ■ * *

Day Comet’s reputation as a begetter of jumpers was well maintained In the hurdle event at ,Te Aroha on Saturday, as both Star Comet and Glenstar, who 'finished first and second, were sired by the St. Frusquin Horse.

Surveyor’s stock have been doing well lately at provincial fixtures up Auckland way. On Top, a three-year-old gelding from Te Moti, scored on each day at Rotorua, while Footrule, a two-year-old filly from Juanna, and so a full sister to Subdivision, scored in the Electric Handicap at Te Aroha on Monday. * # ft

Tentative, winner of the Elstow Handicap at Te Aroha, was in that event having only his second public outing. Ho is a thrce-yenr-old gelding by Marble Arch from the Finland —Sonnette mare Queen Elizabeth, who was bred by Mr. T. H. Lowry at Okawa.

To train all three places horses in a handicap, as C. Gieseler did when Stealth, Money Mine, and Camisader finished in that order in the Autumn Handicap at Gore, is a most unusual occurrence in racing, but it is not the first time Gieseler has performed it, notes a Christchurch exchange. At tho spring meeting In 1925 of the Gore Club, Monoxide, Kilfane. and Happy Days finished in that order in a field of five in (lie Wuikitkn Handicap On that occasion nil three horses wore owned by Mr. A. S. Cambridge, but in the recent race Ihe three homes were owned separately. RANG ITIKE 1 SC I! ATC HINGS. Wanganui, March 4. Dolomite was scratched for the Rangitikei Cup at 1.30 p.m. to-day, and Hnmeses was withdrawn from the Clifton Highewight at the Rangitikei Racing Club’s meeting.