SPORTING

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7409, 17 December 1930, Page 14

SPORTING

Has been nominated for races beyond a mile on the second and third days at Awapuni, and it is more likely that Jie will be on hand for these contests than that he will undertake the journey to Ellcrslie for the Railway Handteap.

horses racing at the Manawatu meeting, will leave at the end of next week. Karapoti and Pcgaway, who ran first and second in tho Flying Handicap at To Awamutu, went out as a bracketed pair, thus making a single dividend of it. Though stabiemates in the establishment of Trainer H. Cook, they run in different colours —Karapoti in those of Mr M.* H. Tims and Pcgaway iu those of Mr A. W. Pranglcy. However, thero would seem to be some commun ity of interest in one or other whicn necessitates their being coupled on the machine.

Both arc engaged in the A.R.C. Railway Handicap, Pcgaway sharing tno honour of top-weight with Toxcuma at 9.G, and Karapoti being iu at 7.12. it is said that all going well meantime, both will face tho tapes in the big Ellcrslie sprint event. Pcgaway lias had only one previous race this season —the Cambridge Handicap at the Wai-, kato spring meeting—in which he was narrowly beaten by Prince VaJ, while Karapoti has the Great Northern Guineas to his credit and also won the Kirikiriroa Handicap, the open sprint on tho second day of the Waikato fixture.