ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

NZ Truth, Issue 985, 11 October 1924, Page 9

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"C. Bayes" (Wellington: (1) 1913;, (2) 1913.

"Doubtful" (Wellington): (1) £3 13s; (2) 15s; (3) £Z Bs.

NEWS AND NOTES,

Masterton concludes to-day. Guineas day at Wingatui to-day. Peach Brandy's turn is just about due. ■ . • ■ , Would Gloaming's win last Saturday annoy a certain quarter? - On his running at Randwick, Nigger Minstrel will not have much bother when he comes home. , | Tanadees' running at Hastings was most impressive, and he is going to show up still more before the season is out. Stewart Waddell was groing to have his team at Wingatui this week, but at the last moment he cancelled the trip. Mount Marta, a maiden, won (.he Hawkes Bay Guineas,, and won like a good. one. With a little more seasoning he will show that the performance was no fluke. The Wassail boom has burst. On his running at Napier and Hastings he is badly m need of a long spell. His crowd have overdone it, and the sooner he is eased up the better. Shirley, the half-sister to Anomaly and King's Folly, is a galloping machine, and the early two-year-old classics will find her knocking. She is m the Wellesley Stakes. Birkenella is a hopeless proposition as a hurdler. There is only one thing left for him — hunt him next season and see how he shapes there. Epistle, a half-sister to Correspondent and Communicate, owned by Harry Hickey is a mad brute, and wants a lot more education before being sent to the post again. Big money was once refused for Royal Diadem, and on recent running the would-be purchaser is lucky. The chestnut will have to* improve a whole lot on his Hastings running to even win a hack race. : Kalakaua put up his best performance for a long time when he ran fourth m the big race at Hastings. The big gelding is a. slug m a race, but, for his' small rider at Hastings, he went most generously and over the last fifty yards was galloping over everything. George Orange deserves every credit for the win of Mount Marta m th'e Guineas at Hastings. The Woodville trainer was most confident of his charge, who was far from ready, doing well m the race, and when it came to t a race his judgment proved to be cor-' rect. . i The blowing up of the tote at Avondale had its .serious side for several people. At least one well-known jockey was asked to give details of his wanderings on the night of the explosion! .. ■ , . The Whangarei meeting is' to be held next week. The fixture is not generally patronised by jockeys from the lower ,end of the North Island, but Charlie France has been offered a number of rides and he is going to make the trip. , . . Tutankhamen won his first race at Hastings and though he did npt have much to beat he was not extended. The chestnut is a lazy sort, and if given 1 half a chance will stop to a walk. Roy Reed 'lid not give him the opportunity last week.

Little First Salute stripped better than any horse seen out at Hastings, and he won the open six like a champion. Toa Taua's breathing apparatus is working overtime at the end of a mile and a half, and if lie is to catch a race he will need to have the conditions all his way. He had them at Hastings, but then could not do the trick. This time last year Proclaim was winning high weight races m fine style. He is m a similar event at Masterton, and Bonena appears to be the hardest to put down. Llewellyn by winning the Maiden and Hunt Cup Steeplechases at Pakuranga last Saturday repeated the performance of Glentui last year. The idea of racing a horse m the maiden event before taking on the big race is a capital one for it gives the candidate a pipe opener. Had Mahuru. had a race m the Maiden last year she would not have been licked m the bigger event later m the day. Peach Brandy does not handle the turns on a small course, but with the long straight at Masterton he should be quite at home. The Guineas at Dunedin appears to be a very open race, and though a number of those engaged are down to race on the first day it is doubtful if punters will get much of a guide. Tresham is a likely .one and the fact that he is not to race the first day should be enough to tell backers that his trainer is satisfied with his condition. Still, good judges are not sure of his. staying powers. Bonetter was allowed to drop out of the Gup at Masterton, but Snowy Burgess has one left m. This is Kilfaire, and he is on the improve. You must not write Subjection's Derby prospects out yet. Remember last year Black Ronald could not win a hack race /before going to Riccarton. With an : average nomination of 22 per race the Carter.ton Club look like having a good meeting. It will be welcome to the officials. Do not take the recent running 'of Bumptious as corr.ect. He lightened up after Wanganui and on his own course this week he will probably be a different horse. Now that Bitters has left his stable, W. Galbraith has only Prince Hal and Debate m work. 'The latter will also be thrown out of commission if she does not improve soon. Killocra has been entered for the six furlong race at Gartertbn. This should put him right for his engagements at Trentham and Riccarton. The Kemball two-year-olds have done a amount of racing and travelling lately, and they will be more forward than most m the Cave Plate at Masterton on Saturday. Mountain Jean, a three-year-old filly by Mountain Knight — Jean Laddo, has been doing well m her work at Masterton lately, and should not be long m the maiden class. The friends of Mr. Fred Jensen, the Masterton owner, will be pleased to know that he is now convalescent after a serious illness. i Nothing is coming on more quickly at Opaki than Peneus, and with a race he will be right. J. Gravestock has more than the usual polish on this season. With . Sir Rosebery spelling, Walter Garrett has only a moderate lot m work. Good acceptances for Masterton. If the officials of the country club keep to their .progressive methods there, is no reason why they should look back again. . Refrigeration will have to come along very quickly with racing to see the post m the New Zealand Cup.

Jack Farmer has had some trouble with the mare this spring. Mountain March is not going- to do much racing- while the tracks are firm. She has been showing 1 all her old soreness since taking up active work again. Merry Bells has still a bit to learn about the jumping business before she will be a top-notcher. She is all right at present till asked to get a move on; then she is liable to chance her fences. The run Damon put on the outside of, the field m the Maiden at Hastings was a startler, and. the first time you see him m a similar distance and the class not too rich just see what happens. Merry Singer will do things this season m the big flat events, but if I his owner wishes to race him as a hurdler next winter he had better not be too hard on the gelding. Killoch when she is right is not a bad sort of a mare, and if she is m the mood at Opaki the mile the first day will find her on the premises. Every race is improving Watchman and by, the time Trentham is on us he Avill be m his best. Wassail only ran like his real self for three furlongs at Hastings. After that he would have been beaten by a selling plater. Hastings track watchers say that Master Beckwith can jump like 'a good one. You know all about his pace on the flat. Master Black was favorite at Hastings, but he had one great time during the race. He was m trouble most of the way and when he tried to poke through coming up the straight he was well dealt with. "Woden is either a dog or he won't carry weight. At Hastings with the lead up he ran like a mule. There is a maiden m Hastings called Zaza, and unless the writer is mistaken he won't be a maiden long. He's a bit green at present, but that deficiency is mpre than counteracted by his galloping powers. At Napier Park, Lady Joyce carrying Sst 101 b beat Mount Marta carrying 6st 71b by a nose. At Hastings m. the Guineas, Lady Joyce carried Sst 91b as against Mount Marta's' Sst 101 b, and was beaten by a neck. No wonder the punters are always up against it. W. Rajner intends being represented fit Trentham by Motley and The Thorn. Since her return .to Wanganuj, Motley has been hitting out m a stye which points to her showing improvement on her next appearance m public to anything she has done this season. The All Black mare All Cerjse, whom Tommy Long raced with success a couple of years ago, has produced a colt foal to Acre. Wake Up, who wag severely injured through collision with a post at Wanganui, has made a good recovery. She is to be mated with either Tontjridge or Chief Ruler. ■ Deluge won the Flying at Wanganui m a way which made it look as if this son of Absurd would- be heard of again very shortly. He has gone on well since, . but has not been bustled, and it is evidently intended to keep him either for the Auckland springmeeting or Fielding, Vaudeville and Adavale both contracted colds at Avondale, but have recovered and are m work again it Wanganui. The many friends of Ohey Cox, the well-known Hawera trainer, wijl regret to ]earn that he is at present m Wellington, where he went under a severe operation at a private hospital. Sunshot won nicely at Wanganui and looked like going on with it, but it has been decided to spell the son of Boniform, who will be off the scene until the end' of November or beginning of December.

Te Kawa, a stable mate of Sunshot, is also on the easy list, and will not race again for a couple of months. He has been tried over the small sticks, and/ later on will probably appear m a hack hurdle race. One of the Absurd tribe won the Breeders' Plate at Randwick this week. his was the Greenwood-owned Nincompoop, a half-brother to the small but consistent Prince Ferouz. Trying to sort out tlie winner of the Electric Handicap at Masterton is going to be the hardest job of the day. with a decent marble Wilderness should be m the running. Jack Sullivan has a 'nice colt m Kaiti, who is by Lucullus out of Suratura. For a green one he ran very well at Hastings. There is material m the Champion Plate for a great race. Gloaming, Ballymena. Nigger Minstrel, Inferno and Royal Divorce have all been nominated. Arpent has been sold by Albert Goodman to the prominent Dunedin sport, George Barton, who is better known on the trotting side of the business. Even with his penalty, i Tanadees should be the hardest to dispose of m the Masterton Cup. His win at Has- ' tings was full of merit and he has only to repeat the performance to be m at the death. Duo has been sent home to his owner s station for a short spell. This means, of course, that his New Zealand Cup engagement is not to be gone on with. . ■• Martona, a big, • upstanding gelding, is a useful sort, and after his two seconds at Hastings. Vern Colello was inundated with inquiries for him. Happy Days has shown us the form of late and though he has a Joad to carry at Masterton he has the condition to do it. There were several flare-ups m the camps at Hastings after the Napier meeting and horses were being swapped about like chess men. It will be interesting to note how the said horses get on m their new quarters. Purseproud is a fair dinkum pricked balloon, and his last three sta;v have had the effect of putting him m the discard. Lady Joyce lightened up after racing at Hastings and she was given a spell m the paddock, George Young is having a trot over m Sydney this sprjng, and he is among the big' money all the time. Barrier injured a tendon at Napier, ,and has been turned out. This fellow is a smart piece . of machinery when dressed m his best, and had he had ordinary luck at the Park he would nearly, have won.The Hawera trainer, Dick Brough, is shifting his quarters to Waverley and m future his team will be trained thez'e. The tracks at Wayerley are good and Brough should be able to get plenty of use of the course proper for his team. This time last year Merry Day was not very forward, and she ran jn the six at Masterton. This year she has

had a couple of races and this should stand to her m the Cup. It is quite possible that Tanadees will undertake an ambitious programme next month. He may go to Auckland ami race m the Guineas, and the following Saturday take his place m the New Zealand Cup field at Riccarton. Ma Boughal is a slick one out of the barrier and if he is m the humor he will tire those m the five at Masterton. Gardenia is going along nicely and will next be asked to race ' at Trentham. With her engaged it will not be hard to find a top weight for the hack laces. The hurdle races at Trentham have drawn very poor nominations and it seems a great pity that such good stake money should go practically abegging. Ore urn, the first of Desert Gold's progeny, by King John, is to race at Trentham this month. She was a starter m the Stakes at Avondale, but was very green. She can gallop and before the season is out will be m the money. Bumptious did not run at all well at Napier and Hastings, but the weight may have had something to do with this. His trainer expects him to do' a lot better at Masterton, where he will be z-idden by Len Pine. David, by his fine performance at the Randwick meeting, has given the lie direct to the assertion that he was a back number. The funny part- of it all was that every Sydney writer was agreed on the matter , that the Baverstock horse had reached the end of his tether. It is never safe to write a good horse down as gone for good. A pretty good figure must have been paid for the two -year- old Arpent, for when the youngster won tit Wanganui, Albert Goodman turned down an offer of five hundred. Esquimaux, a lean, washy chestnut by Finland, can gallop for five furlongs, and if he gets to the front m the five furlong hack race at Masterton he will take some catching. Lochson is coming right again. He will probably be given road work shortly. P. Johnson is keeping Te Toa going m view of the trip to Waikato at the end of the month. , There are many who think the old horse is slipping, but Percy gives him a great chance m the Cup. J. O'Neill has Tuki m great nick and the New Plymouth horse should go well at Waverley. Roburant is back m work again', having made a good recovery from his operation, Roburite, who showed pace last year, is doing everything required of her at present. She should pay her way this season. Her next start will be Waverley. Valencia has been brought m and is now a member of Mantle's team at New Plymouth. W. Ansti.s has Wee Sandy looking a picture and just about jumping out of his skin. The Absurd gelding has been doing great work and tried over hurdles showed that he can jump. The Taranaki Jockey Club has increased its Christmas meeting stakes by £255, with the Christmas Handicap worth £350 and the Flying £225. The open events on the second day are worth £250 and £200. By winning the Craven Plate on Wednesday, Glpai^ing has now won just on three thousand more m stake money than Eurythmic. Chignon, who won the, Gimcrack at Randwick on Wednesday, is another of Mr. W, G. Stead's breeding, and was purchased by Dick Mason along with Nincompoop and two others. Nigger Minstrel's running at RandWick on Wednesday was very disappointing and the hard race m the Derby must have taken it all out of him. George Young's successful run still continues and at Randwick on Wednesday he rode three winners. The news would not. make very pleasing reading to several trainers the writer knows, for they reckon Young could not ride a rocking horse. Though at time of writing- nothing definite has been stated, it is most probable that Gloaming will go on to Flemington to tackle the weight-for-age races there.