SPORTING

Northern Advocate, 23 September 1927, Page 10

SPORTING

AVONDALE MEETING. GOING WILL BE HEAVY. LIKELIHOOD OF RAIN. SOME FANCIED FAVOURITES. (Special to “Northern Advocate.’’) AUCKLAND, This Day. The Spring meeting of the Avondale Jockey 'Club opens at Ellerslie tomorrow, and with good fields engaged there should be some interesting racing. Owing to recent rain the track is sure to 'Re heavy and the prospects for fine weather are not good at the time of wiring. In the Maiden Plate (two divisions) dividends will be paid on the first horse only. For the first division, Whaka. King and Star God may command best support, while in the second section Royal Doulton and Wyoming promise to be favourites. Eight are engaged in the Grey Lynn Hurdles. Kamehameha, York Abbey and Rahepoto are likely to be the best supported. A good field is carded in the Members’ Handicap and Gala Day, Automne and King Smock look like being the public’s choice. The Avondale Cup'is a hard race, but recent form points to Mask, Alloway and Te Kara as commanding most respect. On Wanganui running Knightlike and Chit may be favoured for the Avondale Stakes, with Freehold also in request. After his win in the Eclipse Stakes and a good gallop at Ellerslie yesterday, Laughing Prince will have friends in the Flying Stakes, with Delightment and Covent Garden also fancied. In the Swanson Handicap, Bright Dawn, Sovena and War Officer are likely to be well supported. In the Henderson Handicap, the bracketed pair, Damaris and Thaw, will have good support, with King Lu and Areheno also in demand. HAWKESBURY RACES. NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES. (Received 12.37 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. New Zealand will not be largely represented at tomorrow’s Hawkesbury races, the last of the series of suburban fixtures leading up to the Australian Jockey Club’s Spring Carnival. Battlement, Merry Mint and. Drawbridge are among the acceptors for the Spring Handicap and The Hawk and First Acre for the Rowley Mile. New' Zealand has a single representative in each of the three other races. —A. and N.Z. BEAU CAVALIER INJURED. ■ FALLS ON ROADWAY, (Special to “Northern Advochte.’’) AUCKLAND, This Day. While being led from Ellerslie, in charge of trainer S. Tooman, after being exercised this morning, Beau Cavalier reared and falling on the road cut a knee severely. This will interfere with his ■.preparation, in which the champion was shaping nicely, for the Onehunga Steeples at tlje Auckland Spring Meeting.