GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 239, 27 September 1930, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

The Hawera-trained hunter Copey is expected to fulfill his steeplechase engagements at Ellerslie next week. So far the Marble Arch gelding has not been a success and will need to improve to win at Ellerslie.

The race Star Stranger had at Avondale has sharpened the Martian gelding up considerably and lie should soon be back to his best racing form again. He ran a great race in the Mitchelson Cup twelve months ago, when Historic beat him by a neck with 41b. the best of the handicap. Star Stranger (9.12) and Historic (9.13) both figure in tho same race next week, and if the going is dry and firm Star Stranger is likely to turn the tables on his opponent.

Eager Rose was badly interfered with when Seatown fell in the Plumpton Handicap on the concluding day at Avondale and the occurrence spoilt any chance she had. The heavy going was also against her and she is likely to do much better on a firm track. Eager Rose is engaged at tho Auckland spring meeting ami will be an improved mare by the time that fixture ,1s held.

Stables are to be erected on ElGray’s property at Takanini and the construction of same is due to commence next week. There are to be five boxes built and J. Gray will have two horses with which to commence training. They are Bronze Eagle and a youngster by Potoa.

Rosshire was certainly unlucky on the first day at Avondale, when lie failed to win the Maiden Plate by half a head (writes “Whalebone”). In the Guineas he was not at home on the heavy track His pedigree suggested that he should act well in the going, being by Catmint—Lady Penury, but after going a furlong it was seen he would be hopelessly out of it.

T. Calaugher saddled up his first winner since setting up as a trainer at Takanini. Envoy being the horse concerned. The victory was well deserved, and a very popular one. Like Rosshire, however, he failed to reproduce his previous day’s form on Monday.

There was one two-year-old that went very well in the Avondale Stakes, tho juvenile in question being Hoyiil Artist, who, alter hitting the front at the barrier rise, ran a solid race, to fill thirij place behind King Colossus and Lady Vane. A little improvement on that form should find Uio son of Leighton—Oddity a source of annoyance in future juvenile engagements.

King’s Speech returned to the bird cage a lame horse after contesting the Henderson Handicap on Saturday, and C. Morse is very dubious about the gelding recovering. He has exercised extreme patience throughout the preparation of the Demosthenes gelding, and it must be, to say the least, rather disappointing to him for such to happen when in racing trim As far as King’s Speech is concerned, it certainly appears that he is “gone for good.”

Metcalf, who raetured a bone in one of his knees in a fall At the Taranaki Hunt meeting, has returned to his home in Palmerston North, but some time will elapse before ho is able to ride again.

According to southern reports, Solmar, the half-brother to Nightmareh, continues to improve in appoaranco. and is growing into a likely looking sort.

Dr. M. G. Louisson and Mr A. Louisson have left for Sydney, in order to see their horses racing at the spring meeting of tho Australian Jockey Club. THE ENGLISH CLASSICS ONE OWNER-BRED WINNER. A feature of the classic events decided in England this year is that four of the five winners were bought at auction, states “Phaeton.” _ It is some years since there was a similar record. The following is the list of winners of the respective races and the prices at which the four sold were bought as yearlings:— Gns. Two Thousand Guineas.—Sir H. Hirst’s b o Diolite, by Diophon—Needle Rock .. 480 One Thousand Guineas—Lord Derby’s Fair Isle, by Phalaris —Scapa Flow (bred by owner) — Derby Stakes. — H.H. Aga Khan’s Blenheim, by Blandford—Malva 4,100 Oaks Stakes.—Lord Glanely’s Rose of England, by Teddy—Perce Neige .... 3,100 St. Leger Stakes.—Lord Glanely’s Singapore, by Gainsborough—Tetrabazzia ... 12,500

Lord Glanely has experienced more than one searching disappointment in his purchase of yearlings, and the luck of the sale-ring was strikingly exemplified in connection with the produce of the Wildflower mare Blue Tit. In 1919 Ixird Glanely 1 .it the opposition in the competition for her colt by Swynford with a bid of 11,500 guineas, and in the following year he bought her colt by The Tetrarch for 14,500 guineas. The first-named colt, who wjis named Westward Ho, managed to win only one small -race,, while her other colt, who was known as Blue Ensign, contested only one race, in which lie finished unplaced. At the sale of 1921 Blue Tit was represented by a filly by Tracery, but Lord Glanely stood out of the competition for tho filly, who was bought b.v tho Aga Khan, under whose colours she won several good races, including tho Jockey Club Stakes.