RACING NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 168, 15 June 1940, Page 10

RACING NEWS

AMIGO’S PROGRAMME. , ENTERED AT MELBOURNE. MAY RAGE IN SPRING EVENTS. (By “Spectator.”) Air L, G. Paul, owner-trainer of Amigo, has not made any definite plans about a trip to Australia in the spring, but Amigo has been entered for the Caulfield Cup and for other events in Melbourne. Amigo did no harm by hia racing at Wanganui, and is being kept going with a view to racing at Trentham next month, when, all going well, ho will contest the Whyte Handicap and the Parliamentary Handicap. On his previous visit to Australia Amigo jnet With a mishap' which prevented him giving a taste of his real quality. Bracketing of Horses. A remit will come before the New Zealand Racing Conference next month suggesting .that any horses trained in one stable and starling in any one race shall be bracketed on the totalisator. Rest Till Next Season. Homily and Dynasty have been put aside until the- now season, .and Rehearsal and Curtail, two others of Mr G. M. Currie’s Wanganui team, are being ■kept in light work. To Jump at Otaki. Pekoe is among the hurdles entrants for the Otaki-Maori meeting. After going amiss two seasons ago he was hunted and showed jumping ability. In recent schooling over hurdles he has shown promise. Wanganui Club’s Loss. The Wanganui Jockey Club lost about £IOOO on its winter meeting. It had to pay more than £3OOO in taxation. The meeting would probably have been quite successful but for the sudden cancellation of “the King’s Birthday holiday. Throat Trouble. Both Dunmanway and Nora Gregor had to forgo their engagements at Hastings to-day because of a sudden attack of a form of influenza. This malady has afflicted both horses in the throat. Nora Gregor was not among the final acceptors for the meeting, but Dunmanway accepted and it was subsequently aii‘hounccd Iliad he would .be unable to Btart. The horse has a temperature, but should sooii recover Youngsters at Awapuni. Two youngsters bred and owned by Mr G. M. Currie have entered G. W. New’s stable at Awapuni to be prepared for racing. It was first intended that these yearlings should ho . trained by . IV. Rayner, Wanganui, but as ho has no light boy attached to his stable plans were altered. One of the youngsters is a colt by Spiral from Veil and tbc other a filly by Posterity from Impetuous.