DIVOTS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 283, 13 November 1936, Page 2

DIVOTS

(Dug by “The Delver”)

Don’t forget that acceptances must be in this (Friday) evening for Levin by 8 p.m. and for Waikato at 9 p.m, * * * The pool on the New Zealand’ Trotting Cup did not quite reach five figures this year, but the £9972 invested was slightly ahead of the £9531 10/bandled on the New Zealand Cup at Riccarton last Saturday. » * » A Palmerston (North resident has received a cable message from George Price, who has been seriously ill in Sydney, stating that he has made a wonderful recovery and is doing well. •» ■» « Hie totalisator pool of £26,340 flytaken on the Cesarewitch last month is a record for any race at Newmarket, though it does not nearly reach this year’s Derby, takings of 36,504 8/at Epsom. The totalisator takings for the day amounted to £55,553. * * * Haut Monde, who was gelded some time ago, is beginning to shape up well, according to a Woodville report. He will probably be asked to race at Christmas, and hopes are entertained that he will now reveal his. true ability, for he is an exceptionally good galloper. * » w The Ellerslie trainer, F. Gilehirst, withdrew Kelly, fronj the Waikato Cup and Rerepai from the Claudelands Handicap at the Waikato Racing Club’s spring meeting as soon as the handicaps were published, as he was dissatisfied with the weights allotted both horses. # * » Mrs. W. D. Graham, New Plymouth, received a cablegram yesterday morning from Mr.; S. Green, Melbourne, congratulating her on Fersen’s success in the New Zealand Cup. Mr. Green bred Fersen and raced him in Victoria before Mrs. Graham purchased the Verbius gelding (or 275 guineas at the end Of 1934. * * * Lord Willonyx, who was owned and trained by C. Morse at Takanini has been sold to Dr. N. Du Maurier, of Sydney and was shipped by the Awatea. Lord Willonyx is an aged gelding by Prince Willonyx from MangakinOy and made his debut as a hurdler at the Whangarei meeting last week, where he ran two good races, finishing second on tbo first day and winning on Saturday. « W * x Wild Chase is the first representative of Paper Money to win a Derby, and he also gave Sir Charles Clifford his first success in the Riccarton classic. Sir George Clifford won the race on three occasions, with Husbandman, Masterpiece, and Winning Hit, the lastnamed being the sire of Trench Fight, who narrowly missed taking the honours on Monday last. « * * Cuddle’s good showing in the Canterbury Cup in running second to the Derby winner, Wild Chase, has encouraged to her inclusion in the acceptance list for to-morrow’s Metropolitan Handicap, despite having to carry topweight, 9st. 91bs. Last season, after winning the New Zealand Cup under 7.13 and running second to Kinnoul in the Canterbury Cup, she carried 9.4 into second place in the Metropolitan, four lengths behind Silver Ring, with 9.5. J. Fryer has cabled his intention to return home about December 2. The Victorian horseman N. Creighton is to take up occupation with Fryer _at Hawera, and will do the stable riding when weights permit. Creighton can go to scale at 8.5, and is a capable hurdle horseman with several successes both on the flat and over hurdles to his credit. He is to arrive in time to do the stable riding at the forthcoming Feilding meeting. * « *

At the conclusion of the work before breakfast on Tuesday last at Hawera. Mr. H. Cleland’s three-year-old filly Mystic Glow dropped dead after completing almost a lap of steady pace exercise. Mystic Glow, by Lord WardGlow, whom she resembled to a marked degree, and who died shortly after foaling. The filly had been carefully tended, and was not raced last season, en, was the second foal of Bright but was being prepared for the holiday racing, and was in apparently perfect condition.