SPORTING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 167, 14 June 1940, Page 10

SPORTING

HAWKE’S BAY RACES. SECOND MEETING TO-MORROW. The second Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club's winter meeting will be held to-morrow, when the main event, will be the Hawke’s Bay Hurdles. The following horses may be fancied: — Hastings Trial.—Great Fair, Skycttc, Queen Ila. Hawke’s Bay Hurdles. —Soho, Queen’s Dream, Opoho. Havelock Hack Handicap.—Smiling Personality, Vascomis, Flying Flag. Juno Steeplechase.—Master Hector, Small Boy, Tigreterre. Corinthian Plate.—Tolaga, Doctor Defoe, Kincarolc. Rotopai Hack Handicap.—Dunmamvay, Malacca, Noble Fox. Final Handicap.—Native Song, Endorsement, Heroic Maid. ' Additional riding engagements are:—W. J. Broughton: My raid, Smiling Personality, Native Song. B. H. Morris: Dunmanway, Proclamation, Great Fair. H. J. Callahan: Queen Ila, Royal Spades, Royal Pageant. It. Marsh: Tide, Rocon, Yasconcs. MANAWATU RACING CLUB. SIRES’ PRODUCE STAKES. Nominations will close to-night, at 9 p.m., with the Manawatu Racing Club for nominations for yearlings for the Thirty-third Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes in 1941 and for sires for the Thirty-Fourth Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes in 1942. BACK— INTER HOUSE Basketball 4 4 The following are the results of the games played in the interhouse basketball competitions on Wednesday :—Ladies’ A grade: Glaxo 46 v. Eclipse 10; Hutchins 22 v. C. and C. 22; P.D.C. A 28 v. Collinson and Son 15. Ladies B grade: Co-op. 40 v. Rosco B 6; G. and B. 18 v. Berryman’s 12; P.D.C. 13 14 v. Exclusive 8. Men’s A grade: Clausen’s A 13 v. 2ZA Cubs 11; M. and W. Motors 8 v. Air Force 6. Men’s B grade: Rosco Y’s 22 v. P.D.C. B 8; Rascals 18 v. G. and B. 0. FAMOUS SIRE. CORONACH FOR DOMINION. FORMER DERBY WINNER. The famous English sire and racehorse Coronach, will be shipped shortly from England to Now Zealand. The war has caused many English owners to make arrangements for the safety of their best animals, and it is likely that some famous English racehorses may come to this country. Coronach will be shipped through the collaboration of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., and their agents in England. The famous thoroughbred will pass into the 'control of Mr J. Donald. Under the will of his late owner and breeder Coronach cannot be sold, but it is the intention of the present owner, Mrs Malcolm Buchanan, a daughter of Lord Woolavington, to give the horse to Mr Donald eventually. Coronach was one of the greatest racehorses of all time, and is the first winner of the English Derby and St. Leger to come to this part of the world. His stake winnings totalled £48,225. including three victories at two years. As a three-vear-old he ran away with the Derby in heavy going and also won the Eclipse Stakes' and set a new record when winning the St. Leger. He was beaten in the Two Thousand Guineas, but won easily in his five other si arts. He also won important victories at four years. At the stud ho has sired winners at . home and abroad of nearly £120,000. Other horses to bo sent to New’ Zealand are Battle Song and a daughter and granddaughter of the famous brood mare Cinna. Battle Song, -winner of the Irish St. Leger, is a son of Spion Kop and a direct descendant of Carbine._ He is being imported for Mr G. A. Kain, Canterbury. The fillies have been purchased by Mr J. C. Alexander, o.f Maxwell.

I. Rohloff Suffers Fall. A severe fall was suffered by I. Rohloff, who is now riding in Melbourne, when Tesfudo came to grief in the steeplccbasc at Moonee Valley recently. Latest reports say that lie is making- satisfactory progress.