GENERAL NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 78, 14 March 1933, Page 2

GENERAL NOTES

First-day acceptances for Manawatu are due by 9 p.m. on Thursday next, when also final payments for the Sires’ Produce Stakes and the Ma&awatu Stakes have to be made.

Last week’s Waikato meeting provided a great financial success for the club. Not ouly did machine investments show an aggregate of £32,852 10/- against £14,304 last year, but on Saturday there was also a record attendance of some 9,000 people. It has, however, to be borne in mind that the corresponding meeting in February of last year was adversely affected by wet weather and that as the result of a postponement, the races were held on Monday and Wednesday, the same days on which the Auckland Trotting Club’s February meeting was also held.

At Te Rapa on Saturday speculative straight-out backers were again rewarded with two good double-figure dividends, Rita’s Light in the Te Rore Handicap making a 3-X return and King Win going well over the 2-X in the Huntly Hack Handicap. • • • Rita’s Light is a five-year-old mare by Illumination—Rita’s Lass owned by Mr H. Maxwell and trained at Otorohanga by A. Rhodes. King Win is a gelding of the same age by King Lu— Allwin and is owned and trained by J. H. King at Manunui. • • • While two of Windbag’s gets were winning two big events at Flemington, Topical the Australian Cup and Winooka the Lloyd Stakes, yet another in Knight of Australia was winning the big stake of the day, the Storey Handicap, at Te Rapa. • • • D’Artagnan, who ran a close second to Solomon in the juvenile event on the first day of the Waikato meeting and on Saturday scored narrowly from recent winners in Musquil and Queen Nona, is a chestnut colt by imported Musketoon from the St. Amans rnare Gold Beauty, whose pedigree runs back to imported Merry Nif, the founder of a most successful line. • • • Amnion Ra’s three-year-old full sister Prolyxo who shared favouritism with Bambury, gave further evidence of improvement in winning the President’s Handicap at Te Rapa on Saturday. She has made steady progress lately and is racing very consistently. She displayed sufficient speed to keep close to Bambury until reaching tho straight and then went on to score nicely from Manawhenua and Lord Vai, both of whom finished strongly. » # • Suspension until April 1 was imposed on the apprentice jockey G. A. Baker by the judicial committee of the Waikato Racing Club on Saturday. The ground for the suspension was that shortly nfter the start of tho Storey Memorial Handicap Baker, on T<m4s, crossed over too quickly, thereby interfering with Paganelli. Baker rodp in four races on Saturday, for one win, on the outsider Rita’s Light, two seconds mid one third.