GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 258, 14 October 1932, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

Horseowners and trainers are reminded that general entries for the Auckland Racing Club’s spring meeting, also, forfeits for the Great Northern Guineas and Welcome Stakes will close with the secretary, Mr W. S. Spence, to-day at 5 p.m.

Nominations for the Auckland Cup, Railway Handicap, Summer Cup, Racing Club Handicap Grandstand Handicap, King’s Plate and Clifford Plate, at the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting will close with the secretary, Mr W. S. Spence, to-day at 5 p.m.

The Wellington and Canterbury handicappers have widely divergent views regarding the capabilities of the New Plymouth tour-year-old Gibraltar. In the New Zealand Cup he was allotted 8.0, white in the Wellington Handicap he has been let off with 7.8, or Gib. less.

0. Melnally’s mounts at Avondale to-morrow include Directory, L’Altegro,

Tarporley has not had much racing tn such this member of A. M. Robertson’s team at Ellerslie has undertaken, notes an Auckland writer, he has performed capably. He had two wins and two seconds from eight starts last season. Tarporley is an acceptor for the highwoidit handicap at Avondale to-morrow and will warrant consideration. His latest success was gained in similar company on this course in autumn.

Enjoyment and Tradesman. If he can make 7.6 he will also ride Bronze Tray in the Cup. Enjoyment, who is in the Stakes, is a get of Delightment from Exalted.

The committee of the Avondale Jockey Club has decided to pay two dividends where there are five or more unbracketed horses in a race. Formerly, there had to be at least six unbracketed starters. The committee decided against the three dividend system. * ♦ •

Lady Quex is reported from New Plymouth as looking remarkably well. She showed in a sprint oyer three furlongs at New Plymouth that she still retains all her pace. Though she has not been asked to do anything really serious, she is standing up to her work in good style It is, however, likely to be some time before she will be asked to carry sjlk again.

It would seem, says a Taranaki writer, that the Nigger Minstrel four-year-old Fiji is only just useful and Will never fulfil the promise he gave last spring when after winning four hack races on end he beat all but Bronze Eagle in the Derby at Riccarton. He won the seven-furlong welter in good style the first day at Otaki but failed in the principal! event on the second, even though the company was weak.

That good sprinter Huntingdon is getting through the tasks that H. Gray is allotting him at Takanini in good style, though it may require a race or two before he will be ready to show his best. On the only occasion that he was tried over a distance of ground last season he won well at Te Kuiti, and it may be that he will be found contesting mile and a-quarter events before the season closes.

Greek Gold (7.1), says the same writer, will be entitled to serious consideration for the Flying Stakes at Avondale. The Lucullus—GoJd Fern gelding has been working well at Takanini and therp will be little lacking in his condition. There are some smart sprinters in the six-furlong race, but Greek Gold, taking a line through his form last season, is above the average A good performance on his part in two-year-old company was his victory in the Victoria Handicap (six furlongs) at Ellerslie in the autumn, when, with 7.12. he scored by two lengths and a half from La Moderne (9.0) and Inflation (9.13).

A change of rider has been made for Baroscope in the Avondale Oup. and he is now to have the services of H. N. Wiggins. Wiggins’s other mounts on Saturday will include Good Sea Ruler, Corinis, Greqk Gold and King’s Archer.