MANAWATU RACES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 93, 19 March 1936, Page 8

MANAWATU RACES

the autumn meeting. . COURSE IN SPLENDID ORDER. With all the indications pointing to tho fixture being favoured .by mild, sunny weather, preparations are complete for a very pleasant outing by turf patrons at tlio Manawatu Racing Club’s autumn meeting which opens to-morrow and concludes on Saturday. The Awapum racecourse, noted throughout. New Zealand for the beauty and charm iof its surroundings, is in great order. In fact, it was never looking better, the soft, grassy swards having suffered no damage whatever during the recent storm. There is a blaze ot prettily harmonising colours in tho flower beds and the race-track, with its splendid sole ’of grass, should provide magnificent walloping conditions, llorscs which raced prominently at Wellington figure in firstclass fields, and the betting system will be on , the single pool, with two dividends (75—25), where there arc five or more starters.

TRACK GALLOPS. I Most of the horses engaged at the Manawatu meeting having had the benefit of racing at Trentham, serious tasks were not allotted'to many on the training track at Awapuni this morning, tho majority doing paceworkj ivith a little sprinting oxCr \Var Lap, who was a winner at Bulls, and lias since been working well, was sent once -round, covering the .last three furlongs in 40 2-ssec. Round Score just shaded Waitohu over a mile in 1.50. Spiral, who sprang a surpnso by annexing tho President’s Pfandicap at Wellington, went over a round at easy pace, apeeding up to cover the last three furlongs in 40scc. in 1.21, the former doing the better of the Soverc and Alloa galloped six furlongs pair. . Muggins left half a mile behind in 53isec. .Gustos covered three furlongs very easily in 44scc. ■ Bazaine was sprinted over the last two furlongs of a round on tho plough. Striding along nicely, Entail and Greek Shepherd covered five furlongs in 1.04-5. Martial Lady ran half a mile in 54scc. Bodylinc covered three furlongs in 38 3-ssec. , ' Battle Pomp. accompanied by fall Light, made 1.42 for seven furlongs. _ La Crown took 53sec. for half a mile. Working on the plough. Gold Cure covered six furlongs in 1.18 1-5. Tiger Bill took 1.21 for the same distance on the plough. Vonia Park was responsible _ for tho best gallop of the morning, covering three furlongs in 38scc. Big Dook did two rounds on the course proper at an easy pace. A two-year-old from ,1. PI. JefTerd’s stable showed pace out of tho barrier at the seven furlongs post. SILVER RING SCRATCHED.

Silver Ring, who has been withdrawn from the Awapuni Cup and leaves for Sydney to-morrow to content weight-for-ago races in Australia, shares with Nightmarch and Sasanof (both Melbourne Cup winners) the distinction of having won twice the chief event on the Manawatu Racing Club’s autumn programme. Now six years old, the Silverado gelding, ridden by G. Humphries, won the Awapuni Cup in 1934 and 1935. Nightinarch won the race in 1931 and 1932, while Sasanof won in 1919 and 1921. Had Silver Ring taken his place in the field this year, on his present form, and carrying the same weight (9-2) as that with which lie won last year, ho would probably have equalled the record of the great marc Desert Gold, who won the Awapuni Cup three times in succession—in 1916, 1917 and 1918. However, it lias been mentioned that one of Silver Ring’s missions in the spring may be the Melbourne Cup, when he will be given a chance to attain the same success as Sasanof and Nightmarch, The Li mot id gelding Chile, who showed good form at Wellington, where he won the Ngaio Highweight, lias been scratched for all engagements all engagements at the Manawatu meeting. He originally figured among the acceptors for the To Matai Handicap on the first day. Whctuma Ims also been withdrawn from all engagements.

, GENERAL Except fof the hack six furlongs event, IV. J. Broughton, who piloted the winner of the Blanket Nursery Handicap at Wellington, has a full book of riding engagements so far. His mounts will be Dungarvan (who was second in the Champion Hack Cup), St. Clara, Senior (in the Awapuni Cup), Haut Monde, Eka Tore and Black Friar.

Forest Clow, trained at Awapuni by L. Knapp, has returned from the Paeroa meeting, where lie won the McGuire Steeplechase on the opening day and finished second to Golden England in the Uauraki Plains Steeplechase on the second day. Following the running of die Hatiraki Plains Sleeples, an inquiry was hold concerning the crossing of Forest Glow h.v Golden England at the last fence. The protest was dismissed, but R. E. Thomson, the rider of Golden England, was suspended up to and including May 31 for interference.