DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 2

DIVOTS

(Dug by “The Delver.”; Don't forget that all nominations for the Otaki Maori Race Meeting must be in by 8 p.m. on Alonday next. # * w Among the Auckland jumping .contingent reported to be shaping well in their recent schooling trials are Tea Chat, Dolrain and Gascflle. * * * Tho principal race at the Afasterton spring meeting next month will carry, in addition to the stake, a ailver cup valued at £lOO, presented by Airs V. Riddiford, and it will be known as the Vivian Riddiford Alcmorial Cup. * * * The name of Afohua has been allowed for the Hunting Song—Afoa Bird two-year-old filly who appeared among the nominations for tho Wanganui Debutante Stakes. Sho is owned bv her breeder, tho Hastings trainer, G. W. B. Greene. » * * The Tamahere trotting ownertrainer R. A. AlcMillan was an interested spectator of the racing at Epsom last Saturday, having made a good recovery from the severe illness that kept him from being represented at the meeting by his pacer Prince Pedro. * * * The name of King Neptune has been claimed for the Tidal—Queen March colt owned by the Hon. E. R. Davis and Air O. Nicholson. This halfbrother to King Alarch, Limarch, and Gay Afarigold is believed to be a champion in the making,

Pelmet, a two-year-old filly in the stable of T. H. Gillett at Riccarton, is a sister to tho Wai wick Farm (Sydney) winner Loud Applause (Limonn—Curtain). Air Aloss paid 350gns. for Loud Applause, but Pelmet went for 190gus. • * * The hack sprint at Wanganui on Thursday resulted in a win, but only a narrow one, for the three-year-old Alchemic, who beat another of that age in the Hastings-owned Thane. It was a splendid finish, Alchemic coming home solidly to get the verdict by the narrowest of margins. Thane finished well and would have paid a big dividend had he Won. « * * In Australia the railways charge from £7 to £8 to carry a horse from Sydney to Alelbourne, a distance of over GOO miles; but tn New Zealand to send a horse by rail from Wellington to Auckland, 42G miles, the charge is £l2 3/5, less 25 per cent., but if by express £24 6/11, less 25 per cent. * * *• King March Oui. Alter executing a seven furlongs gallop at Ellerslie on Thursday the Avondale Cup candidate King Alarch was lame. The trouble, according to report. is a suspensory ligament and is serious. It may mean his absence from all spring meetings, and, with such a big horse who requires a lot of hard work, the possible. end of his racing career, «■ * * Cudale s New Quarters. Cuddle, who was purchased by Mr R. J. Alurphy from her breeder, Mr J. A. Hennah, of Hastings, last week, went down to Trentham horn Hastings at tho beginning of this week. She lias gone into T. R. George’s stable and will shortly begin her preparation for the big handicaps ahead, one of which is the New r Zealand Cup.

Big Second Divvy. Gay Boy followed up his Marton success by leading the held home in rhe Putiki Hack Handicap at Wanganui on Thursday, scoring very convincingly. He is a solid sort. Lady Eka very nearly brought off a big surprise, for she led to tho home turn, where she Jost a lot of ground through running wide. As it was, her supporters were rewarded with a double-figure dividend for second place. ’ * * * Longer Race for Bantry. R. Brough returned to Hawera from Marton with Bantry on Monday. Bantry fulfilled expectations and thrived on the trip (says a Hawera correspondent). Susceptible to a good deal of improvement, ho looks sure to be a good stake-earner this season. Brough is successful as a trainer of horses over a distance and has hopes that Bantry will prove useful in races over more than a mile. He will be tried out to-day at Wanganui over a mile and a distance. * * * One from “Akitio.” Jack Horner, winner earlier in the week of tho Cotterell Handicap at Ascot (Vic.), is a three-year-old gelding by Captain Bunsby from Cherry Gueen, dam also of Chief Cook, Cherry Queen and Cherry King, the lastnamed also now racing in Australia. Like them he was bred by Mr Frank Armstrong, of “Akitio,” Hawke’s Bay. * * -» Cood Hurdling Display. The Okehu Hack Hurdles at Wanganui resulted in an all-the-way win for the Hawera-trained Soloist, a halfbrother to the Auckland Railway Handicap winner Supremacy. Soloist gave nothing else a chance and was responsible for a faultless exhibition of jumping. Esteem found the task of conceding 231 b. to a smart hurdler beyond him, but he finished on solidly. Kaola got the minor placing after being w’ell back most of the way. # # * Promising Three-year-old Start. The open sprint, the Flying Handicap, resulted in a good three-year-old filly in Galilee winning rather comfortably after leading all the way. This Chief Ruler filly claims classic engagements later on but is not in the Wanganui Guineas. Slippery ran consistently to get within half a length of the winner. The favourite, Haut Monde, was chopped out at the start and was in a hopeless position two furlongs from home, but he finished strongly to gain third place. «• * * A Lucky “Half-dollar." Instead of putting half a crown on Zane Grey at the Pakuranga Hunt Club’s race meeting at Ellerslie, Mrs L. Flashman, of 7, Station street, Newmarket, bought a ticket in the. “Happy Thought’’ art union about a fortnight ago and won the third prize of £250. The horse won its race, hut Mrs Flashman would only have received about 7/- if she had not changed her plans. She said that the money could not have come at a better time, for her husband’s small milk-vending business badly' needed capital. They would put the whole of tho prize into the business, she added. * » * Cook’s Double. Flit Acre, who won the maiden event at Wanganui on Thursday, is a four-year-old gelding by Acre from the Marble Arch—Frcebird mare Flitter, whoso pedigree runs back to Dtidu, bred from imported parents in Australia in 1846 and imported to Now Zealand. Flit Acre had four stares last season without getting into the money. Ho is owned by Mr W. R. Shattock and trained at Te Awainutu by A. Cook, who on Thursday saddled another winner in Galilee. «• * * Tho Two-year-old Flutters. The Two-year-old I'arade at Wanganui on Thursday v.as run in two divisions over about two furlongs, from tho inile-and-a-quarter starting place to the winning post. In the first division Mr G. M. Currie’s pair, Moquette (Limond —Motley) and Imposture (Posterity—lmpetuous), showed speed out from the barrier and Jed Lavish and Jovial Prince home, Moquette being clear of her stablemate, with the otheis close up at tho post. Mr F. Ormond’s Arausio —Sunny Hours colt Karl led all the way in the second division, bemu followed past the post by Gay Chief (Gay Shield— Persia), Mirth and Gallio in that order, with a gap back to The i Tramp. The time for the first division was 25 4-ssecs., while the winner or the second division cut three-fifths of a second off that record. By the time this i»in print we shall know whether tho results of these two flutters provided any guide to the running of tho Debutanto Stakes to-day.