FROM TRACK AND STABLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 10

FROM TRACK AND STABLE.

SOME EARLY WINNERS. (By “Spectator.”) Race meetings next Saturday will lie held at Hastings and AVaimato. Both are liunt meetings. Peter Pan will start at the stud with a 100-guinea service fee. The Liniond marc Prclyxo producod twin colt foals prcmatuioly to Foxhridgo. Awapuni stables got a share of the stnko money at, Trentham. W. and L. A. Piio hud a lirst and second with Dungarvan, and a win with Dawning Light. I his pair are in wonderlu! order for future racing and their erudition reflects great credit on their trainers.

Mrs A. W. McDonald has effected a great improvement in Manawatu. and she had the pieasure of see tig him run a first anil a second, while Suitsprny was also a winner for the same stable on tho final day. Uazoor was not taken to Trentham as it was considered the track would bo too heavy lor him. lie is now having a short spell prior to being laken in Hand for a preparation for the New Zealand Cup. .

No notice need bo taken of Clarion Call’s defeat in the Winter Hurdles on Saf.iuday. Ho had had only one race (on the Hat) sitiie the Auckland meeting and being lushed to the front from the very start would not help him. His Grand National admirers need not despair, for the race would do him an immense amount of good. Soveral horses at the 'Wellington meet iug showed improved form ana are likely to get on the winning list soon. Among Inese are Battlegiound, lluorc Ton u, r-Jarcring, Alby, Adulene, Brazen King, Philcmup, Younij Pailuou. Alolber Superior, Caishot, and Ilolios A mile seems too short for Korero. In the Winter Oats Handicap he was third last entering the straight, but he Jinislied full of running and v.as close up lo the placed bunch at (ho end. lie should get another stake or two before the winter meetings are disposed of. llorowbenua is one to remember for an early race. He showed a glimpse of nis boat" in the Winter Oats, in which lie finished third, after delaying his final run until very late.

I Polity’s striking run from the home turn ito win the Kia Ora Handicap was in keeping with his earlier form this season. He failed to! win in his two starts at tho autumn meeting at ’J renfham, but lie finished second to Hunting Mars on the second day. Since then Polity has hail seven, starts, and aftor finishing second to Execution and Chief Ranger respectively at tile Canterbury Jockey Club’s Easter meeting, lie won three races on end from six furlongs to over a mile. At \\ ashdyke in May ho tallied 9.5 (7.0 minimum) and won over a miio' and 55 yards in heavy, going. IJis form at Trentham last week showed him up as one of tho best hacks in the counlry. Of interest is the. fact that he is trained by M. B. Edwards, tho wellknown trotting mentor, of Yaldhurst, Cln istchurch.

,’J'lic Manawatu Racing Club received an oxeelkt.t list of nominations for the winter meeting, and a successful gathering seems assured. Form horses in Dungarvan, Arctic: King, and Oncwlictu, with several improvers, are mitered for the Palmerston North Handicap. Other events have drawn some useful horses. Sisferiiia, who was severely injured in a hurdle race at Wiugatui recently, is making a remarkable recovery due to the care of her trainer, M. Conza, at Riccaiton. It. was thought that the Arrowsmith mare would hove to bo destroyed. She can now. wa.k on the, damaged log. ft is moat, unlikely that she wol ever race again, but she. is at least assured of a piaco at the stud. Streamline met with-another badly cut stifle through hitting the second fence in the race on the first daj* at Irentham, and he will need another two or three weeks’ easy time. There is a deep gash near the previous wound, and it is much more severe. It is hoped lie will have recovered in time to' race at the Grand National meeting. Sir Charles Clifford is sending Sailor's Hope, the dam of (he dual Cup winner, Fast Passage, and Disdainful to Cambridge, to bo mated with Foxhridgo, who was imported last year to take tho place of Gay Shield at Air E. S. Otway’s stud. The lalcst. addition to T. H. Cillclt's team at Kicrarton is a yearling gelding by Lord Warden from Divinctte, a sister to tho steeplechaser, Puncliestown, by Thurnham Irom Diyiniu. The youngster, owned by his breeder, Air E. Hay, will be broken in and put through the following stages of liis education, after which lie will be given a spell before being prepared tor racing. Gisborne supplied the winner of the Trial Plate at Trentham in Dc Friend (Defoe—Jeanette). The three-year-old colt put in a groat run down the straight.and won well. His form was consistent, as on the first day ot the recent Napier Park meeting ho was only three-quarters of a length behind Peter Botkford in the Greenmeadows Hack Handicap. In Hawke’s Bay Peter Bcckford was regarded as almost a certainty for the Trial Plate, but lie was not produced owing to slight lameness. ' Stipendiary stewards in Western Australia have been givm the option of imposing a time limit for the running of weiglit-for-age races, which provision has been in force in other States for some years. No minimum times have been laid down; the stewards will decide those on the day of the race, in conference with the chairman of the committee, and if the time limit is exceeded, the slake money will be reduced 25 per cent. Ilaro.d Logan lias enjoyed ’the winter months at the seaside and looks remarkably well (says the Christchurch StarSun). Ho has bpent most of his days recently in aping some two-year-olds, and his activity suggests that he still has plenty of vitality. He has bem clipped and has resumed training under E. Hawtin at New Brighton. Harold Logan is among the horses likely to receive favourable consideration by the reassessment board, Mid he may bo let out 24yds from his present two-mile mark. The horse’s excellent health and condition have encouraged his owner to give the old favouiite another preparation. Harold Logan will compete at the August meeting at Audi igtori, and if he goes along in a satisfactory manner lie will take his place among the contestants for the New Zealand Trotting Cup in November. Miss J. Cuff, of Southland, a prom nent trott ng breeder and owner of the rising three-year-old Southern Chief, who is a fancio'd candidate for next seasen’s Derbies, has' completed the purchase of n stallion from America. This is Quite Sure (2.011), a Peter Volo horse and described as one of America’s best bred st-al--li< iis- lle was bred at Walnut Hall Farm, the greatest trotting nursery in the world, and bis dam, Etawah Girl 11., 2.14 a (trotter) is still in use at the Farm and is the dam of Chequers (trotter) 2.12, Volo Etawah 2.113, and Europo, ono of tho most promising two-year-old trotters in training >i America to-day. Quito Sure is a handsome medium bay stallion, seven years old, standing 15.3, a free-legged pacer, and be will rank as the fastest stalpon at the service of breeders in New Zealand to-day. ’that Quito Sure is a horse of exceptimal speed is borne out by an article -in the Christmas number of The Horseman and Fair World, stating thut in a throe-heat race ho paced tho lust quarter of each milo m better than 30 seen ids and the final quarter of tile third mile was paced free-legged in 271, seen ids, a speed never before credited to a three-year-old pacer.