GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 75, 10 March 1933, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

A final reminder is given that firstday acceptances for the Wellington Autumn Meeting must be in with the secretary by 8 o'clock this (Friday) evening. ® * a The devil’s number, as was the case when Chang paid over a century at Te Aroha less than a fortnight ago, was again associated with a big dividend when the Kilbroaey gelding Wee

Musk, carrying No. 13 saddle-cloth, paid nearly half that amount at Pukekohe on Saturday last • • • Old Paganelli again yesterday provided evidence that, despite his eight years, he is by m ueans as yet on the shelf, carrying his 9st 61b to victory like a racehorse over a mile in the chief event of the day. Pulled out again for the six-furlong Flying Handicap, his penalty proved a little too much for him and he had to give way to Bambury, to whom he was conceding just on 3 stone. ,

Cherry King, who, in making his racecourse debut yesterday at the Waikato meeting, ran a creditable third in the Juvenile Handicap, is a two-year-old full brother to Chief Cook and, like him, was bred at “Akatio” 1 by Mr Frank Armstrong. He is spoken of as being a solid youngster who has shown speed on the training track and is likely to improve with a bit more age. • • «i

Exciting finishes were a feature of the Franklin Racing Club’s fixture on Saturday, says a Waikato exchange. Half a length was the widest margin by which any winner scored. Two events were won by half a head, one by a head, and three by a neck. The concluding event on the card provided a fitting finale, Limex and Karangapai recording a dead-lieat in a great finish.

Despite his liberal rise in weight and the extra distance he was called upon to handle, says the same writer, Chang gave further evidence of his consistency by running Free Ail to a neck in the Highweight at Pukekohe. It was a good display on the part of the Day Comet gelding and he was a trifle unlucky not to take the major prize. Paddon’s half-brother had yesterday, at Te Rapa, again to put up with a second placing.

The three-year-old Raceful —Steinhill gelding Racefield, having his first public outing at the Franklin meeting last Saturday, though unplaced, ran sufficiently well to suggest his doing better ere long. These expectations he duly fulfilled yesterday at the Waikato meeting, when, fairly well backed, he won the six-furlongs Trial Stakes from a big field. He is an instance of close inbreeding, both his sire and his dam being by Martian. Steinhill comes of a fine line of blood, being from Class, a grand-daughter of the Panic mare Nightmare, from whom have sprung many winners on the Australian turf.

Following up two previous recent successes “over the sticks’’ by winning the hurdle race at Te Rapa yesterday under list- 61b, and giving away from a stone up to two stone to fair performers like Lucess and Arcade, the locally bred seven-year-old gelding Cruachan gives promise of turning out something better than an average stake-earner as a jumper. By King Mark from the Birkenhead mare Straga, he is half-brother to a real flyer in Hymestra, and also to Hyades, dam of Ammon Ra. As a flat-racer he did no great credit to these relationships, but it looks as if at the illegitimate game he might redeem the family reputation.

The Australian bred Bronze Eagle is being pottered about the roads, and has been noticed on the track of late. This colt’s preparation will be awaited with interest, as he has been off the scene for almost twelve months, having been blistered and turned out on his owner’s farm at Matamata. Bronze Eagle was last year’s best three-year-old, and it was a pity that he broke down when at the top of his form, as he would undoubtedly have added further laurels to his attractive list of victories. He is very robust as a result of his spell, and will take some time in being tuned right up. • « o Three riders, Broughton, Voitre and Alclnally, each accounted for two wins at Te Rapa yesterday,’rather an unusual occurrence. * • • The big dividends that hive been so much in "evidence at Auckland provincial meetings lately were conspicuous by their absence at Te Rapa yesterday. The investing public would seem to have got the hang of things wonderfully well, four successive races being won by horses who were first favourites on both the straight-out and the place machine. Of the other half of the programme no event went to a horse that was further down the betting than third on either totalisator. This wide distribution of the money is reflected in a 100 per cent, increase in the turn-over as compared with the corresponding day last year.