RACING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20556, 6 May 1930, Page 9

RACING.

JSGMONT STEEPLECHASE

NEXT THURSDAY'S RACE*

. * PAST WINNERS ENGAGED.

I GOOD CONTEST EXPECTED,

Past winners in Nnkuniai. who scored with 11 13 iu 102G, and Brigadier Bill, who won jn J923 with 30.5 and was second last year n-ith 11-0. are included among tho acceptors for the Egmont Steeplechase, which is to bo decided at H'awera on Thursday. In addition there aro several other well-known 'chasers and a few promising young horses that should lend jnterest to tho race, and a good contest is anticipated. Some of tho candidates have had no recent racing mid therefore tho prospects aro difficult to assess. Now that they, have reached tho veteran stn-je, it i* expecting a good deal of Brigadier Bill and Nukumai to come back 83 good as formerly, and yet they will only have to be produced in forward condition to have a host of adherents, for they are good horses and be too old to have chances in a race of this description. Matu 1 jfaunca are solid fencers who may have to be taken into'consideration on account of their solidity, but they would both better suited by a longer journey. Passin' Through has possibly gono rust ijs best and tl?e race may provide improving young horses like Aurora Borealis. Birkbeck and Ponjola with an excellent opportunity to show their worth. Aurora Borealis is a y.."ing maro who won over country last season, and, as she recently displayed 6°od form-in winning over hurdles ft t Awnpur.i, she. appears to bo a distinct possibility- Ponjola showed promiso last jcar when he won the Wuikato Hunt Cup, last month he gave evidence of being well forward by running third over hurdles at Hastings. Birkbeelc, who has won on tho flat, over hurdles and over country this season, is a solid customer whp should bo belter than ever this winter, and it is in his favour that he has bad- Good deal of racing through tho season, so that ho should bo one of tho fittest horses in the field. It is an open race, but popular fancies may he Aurora Borealis, Fonjola. o-nd Brigadier Bill.

V HACK RACE DIVISIONS. [BT TELEGRAPH.—rRESS ASSOCIATION.3 - HAWERA, Monday. (Jwing to tho necessity for two divisions the Egmont Racing Club has added £IOO to the original slake in tho Telegraph Hack on Thursday, thus providing £125 for each of the divisions, which will be treated as separate race 3, with the totalisator opening for each. RIDING ENGAGEMENTS. tOCAL JOCKEYS FOR HAWERA. Several Auckland horsemen will bo riding it the Egmont Racing Club's Winter Meeting at Hawera this week and among them will be H. Dulieu, H. Wiggin3 and E. Stanway. Dulien's mounts will include Horomea> Waitaunaha and Airtight, while Stanway will pilot Passin' Through. Up to yesterday Wiggins had made no definite engagements, but -he will probably steer Hopwood and Kawhakina.

TRENTHAM YEARLINGS. VS. J. REID'S LARGE TEAM. The Trentham trainer S. J. Reid is Lusy fcith his yearlings, which are as follows: Lyrical, a filly by Limohd from Anthem; Forestry, a gelding by Limond from Forest Girl; Acis, a colt by Acre from Minora: Granada, a colt by Limond from Graciosa; Prefect, a geldjng by Chief Ruler from Leithfield; and Meritor, a colt by Leighton from Merit. Reid also has one to be handled later in Shock, by Shambles from Giicip3e. J. T. Young has a very attractive yearling by Hunting Song from Crubeen. This fellow, who is to race as Cottesmore, is . forward and lookß fit- to gallop now. On looks he is more of a Limond, the sire of his dam who did not race. Young also has another yearling, a gelding by Arausiro from Jerda. This fellow is not as forward "as his mate. Boll} are owned by Mr. H. P. F. Blunciell. J. T. Daly has made a start with tho Cape Horn youngsterß. Two havo been broken in, fillies from Ragfair and Rose Mnriian. Both are likely-looking sorts to judge at this early stage. Daly is slso

pleased with tho Moabite—Marriage Bell Colt. THE HAWK AND GOSHAWK. ENTRIES FOR QUEENSLAND. When J. M, Cameron left New Zealand for Sydney with Goshawk his instructions were that Tho Hawlc was to be retired after racing in tho Hawke's Bay Cup. However, a Sydney _ paper says that cn Monday of last week the old gelding was entered for tho Brisbane Cup and Stradbroke Handicap ni the Queensland Turf Uuh'a Winter Meeting on May 31 tvnd June 3 and 7. Cameron also entered Goshawk for tho chief events there.

freyja resumes work. Recovery from injury. When Preyja over-reached and cut a 'tndon while schooling over the steeplechase fences at Ellerslio before tho Easter meeting, it was feared that she might havo 1,6 indulged in a good spell. Fortunately lie injury was not as serious as at first believed and it has honied so rapidly that freyja has been able to resurno work this Week. fcfcyja. who was well forward when nho with tho mishap, was being prepared ® r tho hunters' -races at tho Auckland Kacing Club's Winter Meeting, and mly ° r " ;e stoppage in her work would have _ ee n a very fit inare next month. Now it doubtful whether slio will bo ready to 8 anything liko her best.

JUMPERS "AT ELLERSLIE. Waltzer. jn new stable. J 1 ' 0 lat fßt additions to .T. Chisholrn's v/ 1) Ellcrs lio urt! Waltxer and Furore, ami Z °mi * 3 carryln " 11 ragged appeanmco lief W> avo '° i ,c ' built up in condition . ° re ho is - likely to show any marked murovenient cm his latest efforts, which ji e j°, ee ' l m( 'd>ocre. Furore in being qualiijaen I'' n ' cra races arid lie has sufficient j. ,° bo worth a trial in that class. What stum' ° 8 drawback is his lack of to „ lna ' ' or ' n 1C P ui! t i'° - UIS been unable 10 So very f ar . hurdi" „'". mpinK 0110 of ll'o schooling (£ p' 5 •* um coma (Craddock) and Twinkler t'.vicn * t'i 6l6 ac h°oled over t.lie stonewall jiirnn j ' '' erH '' c yesterday and they both com! l, satisfactorily each time. Quinit i« „ n en^n tremcTila at Wnnganui, but : trip "it ? w '" "lake the southern hj" will i* ln ' eseut intentions are altered, Grenl v ' lis rioKt appearance at the * orlhe ™ meeting at Ellorslie in June, "cbcolln ° f a knook received wliilo eativ r Danro U1 temporarily on before V „ and ll - may bo n fuw weeks C Tn r * aume3 work. In tho meantime X»„i P,!rU eaa u' a dCV ° tbs hiß attention to 'icini; ... ' came trough hia autumn 5l » the n p r3 ( " atlsfac t°' ily. All going v ell 1.0 i n " cw weel «. Kauri Park should *•«. at Ell" ? in ~ io tnck, ° hia ensagei»«obably taniM * e i? exl mont ' 1, when he will the Great .Northerns,