HASTINGS MEETING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22165, 19 July 1935, Page 9

HASTINGS MEETING

THE FINAL GALLOPS slippery and hest A GOOD FOUR FURLONGS > BT telegraph own correspondent] L HASTINGS. Thursday - Tn view of 'the Hawke's Bay Hunt 'races on Saturday considerable interest * as taken in the final gallops at * Hastings this morning. The only visitor to arrive to date is Panpadair, but the remaining fifteen are all booked to arrive to-morrow evening. \C a r Parade was the only horse schooled, giving a fast and clean dispt 8V over three hurdles. Mahora Grand ran the last three of four furlongs in 41 Js, going easily. Sabatini was the only horse to gallop on the plough, which was very fast. an d he ran seven furlongs in 1.411. On condition, he may surprise in the hurdles on Saturday. * jjukumea an( ] Shu did not attract attention by doing four furlongs in 56is. Father's Choice, handling the soft co ing comfortably, sprinted three furJongs in 39is, while Royal Feast, against the bit, ran,half a mile in 56is. .'Royal Feast appears to have benefited by the two races he had at Trenthnm. - Shenanikida was.three lengths better than Lady Wessex over seven furlongs in 1.31). Joy Stick /was ahead of Peggy Defoe throughout a mile gallop and at the - finish'was four lengths to the good in 1.54. Tidal Song, with 21 stone the better of the weights, was just shaded by Hunting Cat- over four furlongs in 545. Tidal Song' goes to Marton for the maiden race next week. This was a fair effort for hacks. Over the same course Eoyal Bengal and Cawbeen were given .a working gallop, to occupy a shade betteT than 575, but Royal Bengal, gave the impression that he could have knocked three or four seconds olf this and made niany friends for Saturday's engagement., Hard Times was going better than Trackman, who is a bad track horse, and Second Gear over four furlongs in 555.

Maine and Mona Lisa went a verj nice easy fire furlongs in 1.9. Mona Lisa is undoubtedly on the improve ■ and. will be one of the favoured ones in the maiden event on Saturday. * The best .gallop of the morning was done by Slippery and Hest when running half a mile in 53$s, and as Hest will have the better of the weights on ~the day by over a stone in comparison with this morning's gallop she will not

lack for public support. V Granvale, Blygain and Morning Quest .took sos for four furlongs, while Hukemanu showed improvement on recent efforts by galloping the same distance in 545.

PROFIT OF £SOOO TRENTHAM WINTER MEETING A profit of approximately £5003 from the winter meeting held last week is anticipated by the Wellington Bacing Club. In this announcement, i the president, Mr. Eric Riddiford, said: "I cannot for the life of me think

where all the money invested on the . totalisator. came from, but it is sure ; evidence that the public enjoys racing at Trentham and that it appreciates win-and-place betting. The gate »takings were up each day, in fact the improred receipts in this direction ~ were sufficient to meet the stakes increase we were able to make above last year's steeplechase programme."

TREK TO AUSTRALIA ... : a. . " : , , .) • % BLENHEIM TEAM MAY GO \ It is probable that after the Grand National meeting at Riccarton next . month the Blenheim trainer J. 0. E. Jones will' take a team of horses to Australia for the spring racing. Re- . vision. Make Up, Korero and Isaacs are likely to be included. Make "Up has not raced since the winter meeting at Ellerslie last year, when he ran second to Wee Pat in the Great Northern Hurdles, but may be seen in action at the Christchurch Hunt fixture at 'Riccarton on August 3. Of the five chief jumping races at the Grand National carnival for which entries have already closed, he has been nominated only for the Beaufort Steeplechase, two miles a-half, on the middle day.

TRENTHAM APPRENTICE

SUCCESS ON SISTERINA

' The Greymouth trainer M. Conza has been so satisfied with the manner in which the Trentham apprentice J. McCauley has handled Sisterina. in her recent races, winding up with a victory m the Kia Ora Handicap at Wellington, .that he has engaged him again for Grand National meeting at Rircarton, in spite of the fact that the minimum weight there will be Bst. arid that therefore the boy will have to put up considerable dead-weight. "When Sisterina first began to race ;ea?ty in the year no rider on the West Const could be guaranteed to stick on hei," Conza said. "She often dropped th?m several times in the birdcage, T*fl<l then would shoot them up on to her neck at the start. On the track she , Vwiild also part company with her riders, and one day when she bolted ;flff to the swamp it took me several ;hours to find her. Since McCauley has ;he<m on her she has been a different ;mare altogether, this young horseman J appearing to .have an underutanding jwiijh her, probably because he does not 'irritate her by taking a tight hold of •heir head."

GAY PATRICK SORE . AUSTRALIAN TRIP CANCELLED i- lis • - ■ *—' ; t»r TEI.EGRAFH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] i ; HAWERA, Thursday j jSay Patrick, bv Gav Shield —Persis, very lame after working this mornand when he had cooled off was his near foreleg. It appears >«Wt he has a weak knee and his Australian trip is definitely off. His pros--Mrts of racing during the early spring .do not look bright. «uri is unlikely to fulfil his engage®tont at the Mauawatu Racing Club's "later Meeting on July 27.

( I; f GRABALL SCRATCHED IDji* telegraph— own correspondent] CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday Grab'all was withdrawn from all en- ' SjS®^ er its at the Canterbury Jockey Vilub's Grand National meeting at 12.15 Ptt. to-day.