AUSSIE NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 149, 13 June 1930, Page 2

AUSSIE NOTES

Price's Luck, Good and Bad. The long spell of bad luck that has hung over George Price's stablo hud a break when, us the cable told us, the New Zealand-bred Thespian— Cowl filly Habit won a race at Moorefield on 24th inst. But it looked as if it had i alien back whdn ho had cabled word that Habit had failed by a head to wifi at Warwick Farm a week later, beaten by a rank outsider. However, press accounts of the hitter meeting now to hand show that Price had there a singular piece of good luck, inasmuch as the three horses, all in different ownership, which he had engaged in the Prospect Handicap, filled all three places, separated only by heads. In a field of fifteen runners this was surely something of a record. At this same meeting the Tea Tray—Florita gelding Gibsonton won a division of the Nursery Handicap, while the Wai-katp-owned Pataduwn went within a short head of winning tho May Handicap.

MoCartan Queensland Double. George Price’s good luck did not stop at Warwick Farm. On the same day the Valais colt Rhenite, one of his long team, won the Sires’ Produce Stakes at the (Queensland Turf Club's Meeting, to which he had been sent in charge of Maurice McCarten. At this meeting McCarten himself had a welcome change of fortune, for, besides his winning mount on Rhonite, he was also successful in the next event, the Brisbane Cup, two miles, the big plum of the meeting. This ride was on Tranier, who on the first day of the fixture, and with a different jockey, could do no better than a poor third in the 10 furlongs King f s Plate. At this meeting Mr A. B. Williams’ cast-off Joy King managed to get into third place in the Cleveland Handicap, nine furlongs, only a couple of heads behind the winner. Master Anomaly in Victoria. At his first appearance in Victoria, Master Anomaly, the two-year-old brown gelding by Anomaly from Take Down, and thus half-brother to Overhaul and Assemble, who was taken to Australia after two promising initial showings at the Oamaru Autumn Meeting, showed good form by finishing fast into fifth place in a fair class field in the Juvenile Handicap (six furlongs) at the Williamstown i Melbourne) Meeting on May 21. At Moonee Valley, a week later, bi* greatly improved on this performance by finishing a close second in (ho Picaninny Handicap, for which bo started favourite. It seems likely that Master Anomaly will more than pay his way for his Wingatui ownertrainer. R. McDonald. » * K Odds and Ends, At the little country meeting at Coonamble, New South Wales, the Welter Handicap, six furlongs, was won by Midlothian (Finland—Landrail), a full brother of Chimera and Landbird, and half-brother of Zippor and Magna Charta. • • • At the Warwick Farm Meeting last Saturday Week, Mr E. J. Wait had something of a let-up on the evil fortune that has so Jong pursued him, his three-year-old home-bred gelding Celtic winning the Fann Stakes, Seven furlongs. Miss Myrtle, who used to be an inmate of J. Buchanan's stable at Ellerslie and was sold io a Sydney sportsman, won the second division of the Novice Handicap, six furlongs, at Victoria Park on May 31. She carried 8.4 and scored easily by two lengths. • • • At this meeting another foaled in New Zealand, although got in Australia, was successful. This was the six year-old Magpie—Bayonee mare Lucky One. bred at “Flaxmere.” who won n division of the Novice Handicap, six furlongs. Other Mnorilandcrs to iiun prominently were Fair

Exchange (Paper Money—Fair Fight) and Preposterer (Absurd—first Class), each of whom ran a close second in his engagement. The acceptance list for the hurdle race at the Canterbury Park (Sydney) Meeting last Saturday week shows the locally-owned Royal Flm as having been paid up for. as well as the New Zealand “classics” winner Satrap. Newspaper files so far recived do not cover the report of this meeting, but any New Zealand success would probably have been cabled. Gesto, with 9.8 to carry, was one of the most favoured by pre-post backers for the big event of the day. Several of Absurd’s stock are still in evidence “on the other side.” Among them is The Hare, from Lady Beauford, who added to his successes by winning a division of the Flying Handicap, 6 furlongs 66 yardsi at Ascot, New South Wales, while on the same day the seven-year-old Horoscope, from Lady Ball Gay Ballerina’s dam, was only just beaten into second place in the hurdle race at Moonee Valley, Victoria. Horoscope, by the way, is being discussed as quite a possibility for the V.R.C. Grand National Hurdle Race. Tho Tea Tray—Mendacity gelding, Tea Time, who earned some notoriety when racing with varied success in the Dominion, last week at Richmond Park, Sydney, got once more on the winning list. His success came in the Fixing Handicap, 25 sovs. 4JJ furlongs, in which he carried 9.7 and went out a short-priced first favourite. Later in the day he was sent out again in a six-furlong event, but was decisively beaten into second place. We are not likely to hear more of Tea Time for a while, as he has been barred for thre months on account of tho misbehaviour at the post that got him into the New Zealand “schooling list.”