NOTES FROM RICCARTON

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25800, 22 March 1945, Page 7

NOTES FROM RICCARTON

(Special) CHRISTCHURCH, Mar. 21 Dividend was schooled this morning over a round of. the steeplechase fences and he gave an attractive exhibition. He will leave this week on his way to Riverton, where he should race well as he is a very fit horse. G. Barr will be his r *Maggiore had the novice Gay Fort as her mate in a good display over four ill Chiding again showed great dash when sent bv herself over four hurdles. She is a brilliant jumper, but she may tire. Miss Medley did not come home aftei her race at Trentham. The Salmagundi filly has gone to Auckland, where she has engagements in the Great Northern Oaks and St. Leger. W. J. Broughton will ride her. First In arrived yesterday, with the local team that raced at Trentham. She will remain at Riccarton till after the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. R. B Robinson brought Native Song back when he came home from Trentham and will train the gelding for Messrs G. R. Hunter and P. C. Webb. He is a nine-year-old by Hunting Song and is a

half-brother to Kindergarten. He has some good hurdle form, but he has not raced for more than a year. A Messervy will go north this week for the Manawatu meeting, where he will ride Capronella, Joseph Conrad. Tavern Light. Peter Quex, Pallas Athene and Stony Broke. He will then go to Riverton to ride Signal Officer and two other horses for R. McLellan on Easter Saturday, returning home for engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting on Easter Monday. R E. Johnstone has Gunyah in his team and the Myosotls gelding will be tried as a jumper. A. Stove left Here Hine on the West Coast and she will be spelled for a few months.