FROM TRACK AND STABLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 3 July 1936, Page 14

FROM TRACK AND STABLE.

ONEWIIETU’S NEXT RACE. (By “Spectator.”) Onewhetu is not engaged at Trcntliam, liut will probably be a contestant at tlic Matiawnlu winter meeting on July 25. The Night Raid—Receipt youngster it) W. Grindlay’s stable at liawera is to race us Settlement. It is reported in the south that A. J. Peart has been offered the mount on Punchcstown at Trcntliam. R. E. Thomsit i will ride Blackman and Travelling Agent both at Trentham and Riccarton. Peter Beckford, who is a fancied candidate for the Trial Plate at Trentham, is reported to have knocked a fore joint which swelled. It is hoped this will not prevent his running. Entail has made his reappearance on the Wanganui tracks after a spell of some weeks, which Iras evidently, dine him _a lot of’good. The son of Posterity has built up a good deal and he looks very healthy and bright. ,11° should prove better than ever as a four-year-old. On her form at Wanganui Hunting Mail should be worth watching at Trentham. where she figures in the mile hack handicap. She was flying at the finish of the Balgovvnie Hack Handicap and 11. Dulicu should win some good' races with this Hinting Song marc. Valpecii and Spear King are visitors to the Mutarnata track from Okoroire, but it is not intended that they will race again until the Riccarton meeting. The former should bo an improved horse by the time lie is called upon to attempt to win his third Grand National Steeplechase. The two-year-old filly by Lord Warden from Palestrina has been named Privy Seal. She will race in the interests of Mr A. J. McGovern. According to To Awaniutu reports she has been moving nicely in her trials on the tracks and shows a. lot of promise. Although Horowhemia and Tooley Street were not paid up for on the first day at Trentham, it is probable that they will be present for the second and third days. Both hit out freely in a half-mile sprint at Ellerslie on Tuesday, running thbi distance in 53scc, good time considering the state of the ground. Polydora was given her first task oVer hurdles since she was recommissioned at Riccarton on Wednesday, and she appears to have given a brilliant exhibition, taking four hurdles in great style. She will, have her next hurdle race at the Christchurch Hunt meeting, which precedes the Grand National lneetng. Koliika sprang a surprise in the Novice Stakes at Duuuevrikc. He is a six-year-old and this was his first race. lie is by Lackham from Native Queen, by Mountain Knight from Native Lady, by Formative, and was bred by Mr W. Simpson, of Eketaliuha, md races in the colours of Messrs N. Bicknell, of Pahiatua, and A. J. Mcxtcd, of. Napier. The novice Young Pacldon has been making good liead-way in his preparation at To Rapa and is set down for his first appearance in public in the inal Plate on the second day of the Wellmgton meeting. The other day he was doing better than Grand Score at the completion of five furlongs and there is no doubt that lie has inherited the family ability to handle heavy conditions. The Australian trotting gelding Maious Desin-u, by the American sire The Design, 2.9i,°has arrived from Perth, and joined C. S. Donald’s ■ stable at Belfast. The Design is a brother to lhc triumph, 2.9 J, who was at the stud in New Zealand. Marcus Design is a big, solid-looking gelding, and he has several good performances to his credit in Perth. Since the Great Northern meeting at Ellerslie the Little England mare, Adolone, lias been doing everything required of her in her preparation at To Rapa and she should strip in splendid fettle for engagements at Trentham. On the first day she is an acceptor for the Stewards’ Handicap, the open sprint, and she should not fail to make her presence felt She was associated :n a live-furlong trial with Prince Acre, to whom she was conceding weight, tn Tuesday, and finished in front of her companion over the deciding - stages. It was the manner. in which she revelled in her work that impressed particularly. The Ashhurst-tramed pacer Baron Grand was responsible for a splendid performance when he filled the rolei of run-ner-up to Munga langi m the Subuiban Handicap, on the second day of the Auckland meeting, md there is little doubt that,he has improved u good deal as Uio

result of racing round the Taranaki circuit. Baron Grand is only a tlnee-year-old, bin is a nice cut of a pacer, by Baron Cluuault from Welcome Pearl.

Mr G. J. Barton has decided to inform tin. New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club that Indianapolis will make an attack on his present mile record of 2.1 2-5 on the second day of the club’s November meeting. If the conditions arc perfect, Indianapolis is expected to pace a mile in two minutes. The champion lias made a complete recovery from the blood dis orders which put him out ot commission prior to Easter. He has not raced since February, si id the rest lias had a marked beneficial efiect on Ilia physical development. To seo him do his jogging exercise, ono would expect him to be an even greater horse in the coming season thin lie was this year. He is perfectly sound, and the cracked hoof that gave his trainer so much anxiety last November has made appreciable improvement during the spell from fast work. '.travelling Agent, Blackman, Adalene, and Philemup will form J. F. Tutchtn s toc.in for the Wellington winter meeting, states an Auckland writer. Travelling Agent lias not raced for some time, but he is reported to be going along all right in his preparation at Te Rapa. Blackman has had a fair amount of racing on the fiat during the last couple of months and he is I'keiy to lie an improved horse at. Trentham. He has been schooled several times recently and shows aptitude for this department of tlic game. Adalene was second to Dollar Bill in the Members Handicap, six furlongs, at, the recent Great Northern meeting, and m the Visitors’ Handicap she mot with interference; otherwise she would have been much closer at the finish. Philemup is to contest the novice events. Ho is a smart galloper, and is not without prospects.