RACING NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 253, 24 September 1942, Page 6

RACING NEWS

TRIALS IN HEAVY GOING. (By "Spectator.")

I The horses with engagement sat the ' Foxton Club's meeting were given their final preparatory gallops at Awapuni this morning. The track was particularly heavy and the poles on the course proper a long way out. Stoady rain fell throughout the proceedings and the times registered proved of little value, none of the horses being allowed to do their best in the going. Don Quox (Bowry) and Sceptre (S. Waddell) were sent over a mile, the former pleasing by the way he handled tho going. Theolateral (Midwood) was showing out from War Credit (S. Waddell) and Augment (Sellars) at tho end of five furlongs. Courting (Bowncss) slipped over half a mile and Star Zone (S. Waddell) infused plenty of dash into a three-furlong effort. Henry of Huntingdon (A. Waddell) finished on solidly to head off Sea Quex (S. Waddell) and Kinsman (Midwood) when they ran seven furlongs in even time. Solver (Bowry) and Donegal Bay (Ewan) were paired over five furlongs, and Stairway (A. Waddell) and Rink (S. Waddell) followed over six. Over tho hurdles, Vitcmont (Anderson) jumped three obstacles carefully, and Colossal Chief (W. J. McDowall) and Circular Note (Miss F. White) went well in a similar task.

Some ridirig engagements are: —A. Midwood. Sea Quex, Rama Iti, War Credit; V. Sellars, Madam Rachel, Pedantic, Augment; J." Garth, Tetratina; C. A. Bowry, Nighean. Miss Portland j N. Vanglian, Theolateral; D. Redstone, Lady Virginia; S. Waddell, Don Quex, Courting, Star Zone. 11. N. Wiggins, who has been out of the saddle fur nearly a year with a broken leg, hopes to resume riding again at the Christmas meetings.

The Awapuni trainer G. W. New is compiling an excellent record in connection with the Debutante Stakes run at the Wanganui meeting. He has trained five winners of the event—Legatee, Pas do Chcvnl, Surmount, Damask, and Screen, and twico supplied tho runnerup. In a letter to his father, Mr G. W., New, P;iot-Ofliccr D. New states that while in hospital in Egypt with lonsilitis, he met the horseman W. ("Watty") Pine, who was convalescing. Ho wished to be rcmombered to all his friends at Awapuni, where he spent some years asa rider.

Tho Centennial Cup winner, Old Bill, has finished racing. He strained a ligament at Marton on Saturday and it has been decided to retire him to the stud. He will remain at Awapuni under L. Wilson, v who has had charge of him during his racing career. By Siegfried from Liaison by Lord Quex—Lovcmatch, by Martian—Lovelorn. Old Bill has plenty of staying blood. Now seven years old, ho was not over raced and ho has some important handicaps to his credit, among them being the Centennial Cup, Feilding Cup, Awapuni Handicap and Wellington Autumn Handicap. Although he only won eight races, his stake earnings reached nearly £6OOO. G. R. Tattorsall, who is now overseas, rode him in his most important successes.