GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 272, 1 November 1932, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

Jayson’s recent good behaviour in hurdling events has resulted in his name being removed from the schooling list, and ho is now eligible to compete again on the flat.

Bad behaviour on the part of Arikira at the post for the -Pearce Handicap at Trentham ended in hi g whipping round and ’ taking no part in the race. This is not his first offence of the kind this season. He was left at the post in a race on the first day of the Otaki-Maori Meeting last month.

D. O’Connor has been engaged to ride Autopay in the Stewards’ Handicap. O’Connor (says a Southern writer) is the right type to manage the Paper Money horse, who will bo having his third run in that particular event. He was successful two years ago. Merry Peel is an unlikely starter in the New Zealand Oup, and L. J. Ellis will- most likely ride Shatter in the two-mile race.

The only possible runners for next Saturday’s New Zealand Cup who also contested the race last year are Spearful winner last year), Gay Crest (third), Taloux (fourth), Red Racer (thirteenth), and Flower (fiifteenth ana last). Historic and Concentrate, besides Gay Crest and Jaloux, contested the race in previous years.

Following on the resignation of Mr A. P. Wilson, who has accepted an appointment in Queensland, the New Zealand Racing Conference will invite applications in Australia and New Zealand for the position of chairman of the New Zealand Stipendiary Stewards. In the meantime Mr B. N. Sandilands will officiate as stipendiary in the North Island, and Mr G. E. Curry will take up his old position in the South Island,

La Moderne, who has made a good recovery from the fall she experienced in the Avondale Guineas, will fulfil her engagements at the New Zealand Cup Meeting. She will probably be ridden by B. H. Morris in the Oaks. The Lord Quex —Novoko gelding, Hint, will not make the trip.

It was anticipated that the Hunting Song gelding Hunter’s Moon, who has been a member of Mrs A. McDonald’s establishment at Awapuni since being purchased by Mr G. L. Lyon, of Ceylon, would, cross the Tasman to join Compris immediately after the Wellington Meeting. The programme was amended, however (states an exchange), for he was returned to Awapuni, and it is not improbable that he will now race a time longer in the Dominion.

The late Mr G. D. Greenwood’s pair, Jaloux and Azalea, who still have a New Zealand Cup and Stewards’ Handicap engagement respectively, have had only one run each to date this seaspn. They both started in the Winter Cup in August, but the bracket was not fancied, and they ran accordingly. They are to be sold by auction next Friday, and if they fulfil their next day’s engagements it will be in new, colours.

If there is one horse among this year’s probable Stewards’ field who deserves some reward for persistency it is Arrow Lad, who has contested the race for the last four years. Still, although he has not yet finished in the money, he has usually won an important race on the later days of the meeting.

Great Star, like Arrow Lad, has also had several tries at the Stewards, his tally of starts being one less, for he has been saddled up the last three years. Autopay has twice previously been stepped out in the race, winning two years ago, and Palermo has made one previous appearance in the race. The ethers will be having their first start in the race.

Seven horses handicapped for the Apprentices’ Bace at the C.J.C. Meeting next Saturday are not eligible to start. New conditions for this event, made last year and continued this year, rule out a horse who has won a race of six furlongs or under at the time of starting. The seven concerned are Late Jest, Craigavon, Eminent, Revision, Palantua, Tippling, and Fleeting Glance. Although not yet definite, it is likeiy that the Trentham lightweight, 8. Wilson, will have the mount on Korokio in the New Zealand Cup.

• • « A. Eastwood has been definitely engaged to ride Fast Pa'ssage iirthe New Zealand Cup.

Concentrate is doing solid work at Riccarton. He would have been all the better for a race, which was to have been his portion last Saturday, but if conditions are favourable, some solid galloping for the rest of the week should see him in something like his form for the meeting. Being well forward before his compulsory let-up will assist his trainer in bringing him to*' his best again.

Mr W. J. Wood, who took Chopin down to Riccarton last week, is fairly confident that his gelding will make a good showing in the New Zealand Cup. Chopin is only a handful, but he is all heart, and while his owner-trainer may appear optimistic so far as the two. miler is concerned, Chopin’s form in the past leaves no doubt that if he is on the scene at the finish lie will take some shaking off.

The Trentham contingent for Riccarton, consisting of Historic, Eminent, Aga Khan,' Red Sun, Normandy, Autopay, Pahu, Aroma, Flower, Purse, Black Mint, and Pegged Exchange, went south last night.

L. J. Ellis was riding Tanntqp at Riccarton on Saturday, when that geMing dropped dead. Ellis fortunately escaped injury.

Grecian Prince is in solid work again at Riccarton, but ho has suffered from lameness since returning from Sydney. If he starts in the Stewards’ Handicap E. Ludlow will ride Mm.