Waikato Trots

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 109, 11 May 1939, Page 10

Waikato Trots

GREAT FIELDS ENGAGED ON SATURDAY

HORSES WITH FORM Special to "The Times." AUCKLAND, Last Night. The Waikato Trotting Club will stage its final meeting of the season at Claudelands on Saturday when fine and well-balanced fields will create keen competition and a wide range of win and place speculation. Great Guy is an improved trotter who will take beating in the Introductory Handicap, while Mattie Herbilwyn ran surprisingly well at. Epsom and Ihi Ihi, Worthy Worker and Sir Tony have good prospects. The fancies may bo Great Guy, Ihi Ihi and Matti Herbilwyn. The draw for positions will bo a factor in the Erueka Handicap in which Bingen's Best, Claypot, Double Peter, Excel, Grand Dame, Narbada, Tsana, Worthy Quest and Kewpie's Bingen read likely. Most support may be for Excel, Kewpie’s Bingen and Claypot. If Axminstcr is present he will be in demand for the Tamahere Handicap but Amywyn, on her Epsom form, will trouble him. Reyola, Silk Lady, Lady Potts, Llewellyn's Pet and Hillcrest will add interest and the best backed may be Amywyn, Axminster and Silk Lady. Many incline to the belief that th# Burch Handicap is easy for Parauri but on Hawera form Policy will keep him busy. Several of tho others have prospects and the next best may be Three Bells. Tinker will give aded interest to the Ruhuhea Handicap in which Marcus, Stargum, Bold Venture, Luminate, Resistance, Peter Smith and Roma Girl | (who raced splendidly at Awapuni), will be supported. The favoured ones ! may be Roma Girl, Luminate and Tinker. Within will have admirers in the | Members’ Handicap and most opposition may be expected from Decoy Bird and Llanvabon. j The big "fry" will measure strides 'in the 2.47 Fraser Smith Handicap. Thore should be fine competition between Uenuku, Star Pronto, Fernbrook Lass, Gold Dredge, Our Peggy, Kenwor thy and Navy Blue. In a wide pool the order may be Uenuku, Kenworthy and Star Pronto. The saddle merchant# will step out in the Visitors' Handicap, the best known at the style being Levity, Bold Venture, Lucky Love, Our Summer, True Trust and Roma Girl. Recruits who will keep the rest busy are John’s Last and Young Pointer, and they may be the most troublesome to the likely favourite Our Summer.

POVERTY BAY MEETING RIDING ENGAGEMENTS ANNOUNCED Among the riding engagements announced for the Poverty Bay meeting are:— P. Atkins: Quiip, Raana. A. Lord: Parry. H. J. Callahan: Defray, Golden Flame. L. Cullen: Buster Brown. J. Dooley; Thrasher. C. L. Kerr: Peter Beckford, Rapa Waiata. R. W. Savage: Glen vane, Platter. G. P. Do wrick: Mischel, Life Guard. O. Evans: Royal Spades. W. J. Mudford will also bo riding at the meeting and will probably be on Golden Blonde and Gay Mimic. ASTRONOMER Astronomer, who won the Encourage Handicap and a stake of £4O at Kyneton (Victoria) last month, was bought as a yearling for 800 guineas, sold as a three-year-old for 150 guineas and given away some months later. A brother of Donaster, Astronomer was once a Btablcmatc of Ajax, but he failed miserably as a two-year-old, with the result that he was put up for auction. Mr. L. Kennedy bought Astronomer for JSO guineas, but, when the gelding appeared to be a hopeless proposition, he gave him away to Mr. C. Cussen, a farmer at Pakenham Fast, who then leased the gelding to Mr. "C. Namwoll." GLOUCESTER CUP RACE The Taranaki Hunt Club and EgmontWanganui Hunt Club have decided again to hold a combined meeting at New Plymouth, and the dates applied for are August 31 and September 2, 1939. This meeting will be the sixth held conjointly by the two clubs. Teh race for the Duke of Gloucester Cup, allotted to tho Taranaki Hunt Club for the 1939-40 season, will be included on the programme, and this race will provo a great attraction at an already popular gathering. A GOAT INVASION Outback race meetings in Australia are often crude affairs, where humorous incidents predominate, but a meeting at Roundstone, Queensland, took on a tragic turn. Two riders were injured and a horse was killed when an invasion of goats on the race track caused an accident. It was at the Roundstone Amateur Picnic Raco Club’s meeting. The goats were apparently tempted by the rich grass on the track, on which about 50 had encroached when the field thundered down on them. The jockeys had no time to pull up and were unable to go round the goats. Several horses fell and the goats were sent hurtling right and left. There was a general mix-up. Jockeys, horses and goats were spread across the track. Uuinjured horses and goats scrambled to their feet and fled in panic in all directions. The officials had a busy time iu restoring order. They found that six goats and a horse had been killed and that two riders, Reginald Wilson and Michael Hanrahan, who had been thrown heavily, were unconscious. Wilson and Ilanralian were taken to Rockhampton by aerial ambulance and admitted to hospital, Wilson with a broken collarbone and Hanrahan with head injuries.