NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(By "Maecenas.") <

Kuia ran a fair race at Awapuni, and should show up well at Feilding or* Saturday. -,

No Bother as a. juniper appears tobe on the improve, and may be one of:" the fancied horses for the Kawa Kawa. Hurdles at Feilding. , Zany is a very, brilliant filly and should make light of her 8.5 at Wairarapa on Saturday. Bonnie Nurse- ** may be the strongest of her opponents. Blue Hall is a useful sort and should have plenty of friends in the Members'' Handicap at Wairarapa. Martian Miss finished very fast'in. -fourth place at Awapuni last week, and in the'inoderate field'at Wairarapa/ on Saturday should command respect. Hyrax is a very useful gelding, and with 7.11 in the saddle should have a - host of admirers in the Easter Handicap at the Wairarapa-ineeting, which opens on Saturday. Kick Off. is a very promising sort, and the St. Leger at Ellerslie on Easter Monday should find All Black's son running prominently. On Awapuni running (where she. ran, the two best races of her career) Pam " should have a host of admirers in the-",. Mokai Handicap at Wairarapa on Saturday next. / ...

Left (Martian—Lovelorn), which d&-: a full sister to those. pair of good stake-earners, Nones and Mehelaus, is, engaged in . the Maiden Stakes at Feilding and should-run welL

Paoanui ran such an excellent race at -' Awapuni on Saturday that one must . keep her in view for the'Feilding Cup. This mare has won the last two twelvefurlong handicaps decided at Feilding^ A few notes on th& "Waimate Plains - Trotting meeting, which takes place on Easter Monday, will appear in Saturday's issue of the Star.

The -Lueullus colt Lucius is engaged. in the Onslow Stakes at Ellerslie on. Saturday next, and as he is on the upgrade and showed by his running at Trentham that he has pace, he should, not lack support up north. That, promising hurdler Poanui is:getting through excellent work and can be.depended on to run well in theBrighton Hurdles at Ellerslie on Saturday.

In a poor class Cleasanta should, figure prominently in the Great Northern Oaks. This filly ran a fair race toKick Off in the St. Leger at. Trentham a couple of weeks ago. ' The Stratford-owned Big Push will _ make the trip to Waipukurau and -racethere on Monday next. Big Push, isvery well just now and should pay"his. way at the meeting.. The Stratford-trained Pouma hasc been responsible for good work on the Stratford course, and the connections-, of the daughter of Campfire will de disappointed should she fail at Feilding.. Pouma under light weights" is betierthan people give her credit for beingThe Easter racing carnival opens on „ Saturday, when a number of racing- " clubs open their respective campaigns. Of the clubs concerned, Taranaki. sportsmen are most interested in "theAuckland, Feilding *and Wairarapa, meetings. ;

On Monday next the Auckland,. Feilding and Wairarapa meetings eoirclucle, while the Canterbury JockeyClub open their meeting. The Waimate Plains Trotting Club also hold: their annual gathering on this day,, and Taranaki is lucky to have such a" progressive body in their district.

The racing Rational had at Trentham has had the effect of ''sharpening" Tip the son of Absurd. Those connected with Rational make no secret of the fact that they expect the brilliant, bay to win the Easter Handicap on Saturday. Possibly the long run up theback stretch, also the trying straight at Ellerslie, may not favour the three-

year-old, and horses like Gasbag and! Quest may prove too good for the Hawera representative.