CORONATION RESUMING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 232, 30 August 1938, Page 10

CORONATION RESUMING.

TRIAL AT WANGANUI. . AVONDALE ENGAGEMENTS LATER. (By “Spectator.”) Coronation, the Limond —Jewel of Asia colt, is to resume his racing career as a three-year-old at the Wanganui meeting, where he is engaged in the maiden race. His form there will be closely watched in view of classic engagements later. He will bo meeting some fast ones in Ecstatic and Old Bill, to mention only two. Coronation’s connections have sufficient confidence in him to allow him to remain in the field for the Champion Plate (seven furlongs) at Avondale, and he is nominated for the New Lynn Handcap (one mile) on the second day of that meeting'. Passion'Fruit to Race. Passion Fruit,: who was reported retired after the Dannevirke Hunt meeting, is to race at New Plymouth on Thursday. For Sprint Events. Francis Drake, who is engagecj, in the sprint 'events at Wanganui, has been working well at Woodville, and shovdd com© up very fresh for his engagements. Likes the Track.

Brazen King, who won the Bristol Handicap at the 1937 Wanganui winter meeting, and the Wanganui Cup during the past season, always races well on the Wanganui track, where he will be engaged in the Marangai Handicap. He has not raced since the Trentham meeting. In Avondale Guineas.

Though not in the Wanganui Guineas field, Groat Legion has been entered for tho hack sprints at the coming meeting. Pie is a smart beginner and has been going along very nicely at Awapuni. Great Legion remains in the Avondale Guineas after the declaration of forfeits. Silver Rule’s Mate.

A good mare to bo mated with SolicitorGeneral this season is Mr W. PI. Gaisford’s Silver Rule, the dam of the highclass Australian two-year-old filly, Boimeur de Pere. Mr Gaisford was so pleased with a foal by Solicitor-General from a mare mated with him in 1936 that lie decided to send his best mare to him this year.

Will Do Better. From the same stable as Quadroon and Florence Mills, Merryman has developed into a much more solid horse than formerly and should bo capable of winning ii middle distance event soon. He won in maiden class at Awapuni last Christmas and then was unlucky to be beaten ,at Pahiatua. Soreness has in the past prevented him from giving of his best. Speedy Young Sprinter.

Florence Mills, a brilliant speedster who started off last season with three successive wins, but was later prevented by adverse circumstances from repeating this form at the Auckland and Trentham fixtures, is likely to keep her opposition very busy this term. She scored her first win on tho Wanganui track and on the first day of the Wanganui meeting will start either in the Durie Hack or open sprint. Breeding of Limulet,

Limulet, who won the Novice Race at Warwick Farm on Saturday, is by Limond from Anklet, so he and Royal Order, who won at Williamstown, are full relatives. Limulet is owned by Dr C. Nigel Smith, of Sydney, who purchased him at the Trentham sales from the Koatanui draft for 7Oogne.. Anklet has proved a top-notch

matron, as all her stock are winners, and an earlier colt, Garter Knight, who came to an untimely end, was looked upon as a real smasher. Anklet ‘is by Absurd from Bronze. Limulet is in tho Derbies. Awapuni Duel Repeated.

When Stretto and Royal Qliief clashed in the Warwick Farm Stakes, won on Saturday by the former, they repeated the duel they had in the Awapuni Gold Cup last autumn, but on this occasion Gold Rod intervened for second place from Royal Chief. Stretto established a race record in beating the latter home by a length in the Awapuni Gold Cup, and this was the first time they had met since. It takes a horse of champion class to win the Warwick Farm Stakes.