GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 70, 6 March 1930, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

First day acceptances for Wellington, also nominations for Manawatu, with forfeit for both the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes and the Manawatu Stakes, are due to-morrow (Friday) at 9 p.m:

Tenakoe, whose name, by the way, owing to bad writing, appeared yesterday as Tentative—a winner at Te Aroha—is a three-year-old halfbrother of that good horse Ruapapa, s 6 that he is worth watching for future events. Press accounts say that Tenakoe did not got away too well, but soon outpaced the opposition and stayed on in good stylo considering the pace he showed to hit the front over the first half-mile of the journey.

Evidently one of the youngsters engaged on the second day at Te Aroha has early aspirations to be a hurdler This was Snow Lap, who got away before the start, jumped the rails, and took no part in the race.

It does not seem to say much for the younger hurdlers that started on Monday at Te Aroha that the nine-year-old Spalpeen gelding Pouri was good enough to carry top weight and beat them all. More especially is this the case when we are told that he was carrying plenty of surplus condition and had only been in work a little over a month. However, he jumped perfectly throughout the race and got the verdict by a narrow margin.

Te Hom, who dead-heated with Spring Abbey for first place in the Champion Hack Race at Te Arolia, is a four-year-old half-brother, by I’apaei Money or Lucullus, to Te Kara, who dead-heated for first place in the Auckland Cup of 1923 and next year won that event outright. To Hoia is said to have finished with marked gameness when the pressure was applied, and. although ho failed to win outright, registered a taking performance. Te Hoia has been steadily improving for some time past, and promises to uphold the reputation of the family to which he belongs. It is wortji remembering that Te Kara did not make much of a mark until he had reached his fifth year. • * • Tlie merit of Eager Rose’s win in the President's Handicap on the second day at Te Aroha was enhanced by the fact that she was drawn on the outside of the fied at the barrier, and had to cover a good deal of extra ground. Her finishing run was very impressive. The Day Comet, marc stripped in excellent condition for her two races, and if she retains her present form A. Kemp

will probably get some further stake money with her before the autumn meetings are over.

This afternoon will see Amouni» and Greenline fighting their Caulfield Futurity battle over again in

C. M. Lloyd Stakes at Flemin This event is run over a mile al w.f.a., which will mean equal burdens for these two. As Amounis gave Greenline bibs, and a length beating in the seven-furlong Futurity, and the extra distance should favour him, there need be little doubt as to which will start favourite. It would be something worth while to see a go between the two over six furlongs.

The Newmarket Trial Stakes, six furlongs, run at Mentone (Vie.) a week before the opening of the V.M..C, meeting, was won by the N.Z. bred four-year-old mare Pomona, by Paper Money—Minona, who carried 8.4 and started favourite. This event was at one time regarded as giving a guide for the following big sprint race at, Flemington, but this idea has been badly discounted by results in recent years. In any case, Pamona was not engaged for the more important Newmarket.

It is some considerable time since we heard anything of the Autumn— Te Puia gelding Autumnlad, who as a two-year-old, before being sold for West Australia, won a race or two for Mr. W. Dalton round Gisborne way. He was fairly successful in his earlier outiugs in the West, but has not been much in evidence this season. Last week he made his reappearance as a winner, the occasion being the Bellevue Purse, one mile, at the Helena Vale meeting, for which he went out favourite.