HAWKESBURY RACING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11400, 18 April 1899, Page 3

HAWKESBURY RACING.

The leading events at this1 New South Wales fixture are thus commented on by " Galtee More": For the Nursery Handicap Manildra, a smart-looKing filly by. Sunrise fiom Dur. Rose, was selected as the best of the bunch, the demand for her being so great that she soon hardened in the market quotation? to a shade of odds on. Though the company was email, it afforded a couple of instances of want- of resource in equine nomenclature, that seuselesS'practice of spelling backwards the name of the sire and dam having been resorted to in the cases of Rotadam and Elleh respectively. Elleh cut out the work for. half the journey, when she retired, and Parker bringing the favourite through as they rounded the bend, landed her aii easy winner. The scratching pen made sad havoc among the candidates for the Autumn Handicap, only 14- of the 30 numbered oh the list remaining' in. When speculation opened April Fool had the call in the market, but the weight of money in. favour of Carberra soon sent the daughter of Carbine to the head of the quotations, where she' remained to the rise of the barrier. At half a point longer odds Mr Foy's horse was always marketable, the Junee mare Trienid was next in request, and beyond Fairy Prince and Water Colour extended prices were obtainable. Callinan, who had the mount on April Fool, took him to the front Eoon after the rise of the barrier, and letting him run along nt his own pace, kept him in the lead, his nearest attendants being Bclhvood, Trienid, Fairy Prince, Water Colour, and Carberra. Bellwood retired as they came round the bend, where his ■ place was taken by Fairy Prince, while Carberra, Trienid, and Water Colour were just in the wake of the leading pair. Fairy Prince made, a determined effort to catch April Fool at the distance, but the game son of Crowberry responded generously to every call from Callinan, and scored a popular win by a neck, while the other place was occupied by Water Colour, who ran a good mare. The favourite showed dangerously on the extreme left at the home turn, but, with Trienid, was beaten out of a place. On returning to scale the winner was greeted with a hearty round of applause, which could not have been otherwise than gratifying to his owner, who was present to witness the victory. April Fool was got in England, by Crowberry from Atropos, and Mr.Foy, having purchased his dam, sent her out to Australia, whore the colt was foaled to English time on April 1, hence the appropriateness of the name. His dam, Atropos, is by the Irish horse yU'bitrator from-Happy Hampton, by Hampton from Cantiniere, by Stockwei! from Cantine, by Orlando.