HUNT CLUB MEETING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 11

HUNT CLUB MEETING

RACES AT THE PARK GOOD SPORT TO-MORROW Trio Poverty Bay Hunt Club’s meeting, to he rieid at the Park course tomorrow, should be a most popular fixture, as it provides trie only chance for locally-trained horses to be given a run during trie winter months without going abroad. Practically every horse nominated and accepted for, in connection with the meeting, is trained in local establishments, and ran be expected to line up in its respective ejass. The courseTs in good order, and has received a. great deal of attention dfiring, the past fortnight. Good rttteiulntice.s hhvp been registered on recent mornings during tin' training gallops, find interest in the doings of various runners lids been mbst keen.

Transport arrangements for the public will be asi usual, and the club has arranged for the attendance on the lawn of . the W.E.C.M.R. Band, which will vender a programme of suitable selections. LEASE OF DEFOE

BETTER CHANCES NOW NEW ONE FOR MAKAR AKA The lerisiiig of Defoe, the promising younger sire at the Makaraka stud, to a bleeder who will stand him in the Sorith Island, has opened the wav for Mr. Gaiiie Carrington, the blaster of tHle Malta raka stud, to consider the iicqiiisitibii of a representative of the Blandfoi'd line, now most fashionable in England, and likely, in his to prove successful and popular in New Zealand.

The delivery of Defoe to his lessee, bli terriis which provide for eventual piii-chtise dt the option of _ the lessee, will take place about the huddle of the irihhth. Defoe is in excellent shape, iiiid with the improved cHitnces he will get in the South Island, lie sliofiid not be long in establishing himself as a successful racing sire. At Makaraka he lias been handicapped by the established fame of Hunting Song, and though lie lias bad some good mares, his chances of earning distinction have not been as good as they should be in the South. Already Mr. Carrington is engaged in preliminary negotiations for replacing Defoe at his stud with a representative of the Bland ford blood, which has provided three English Derby winners in the past four years. The Blandford gets gre mostly very smart off the mark, and moreover have the stamina to see a long distance out, so that there should be a good demand for the strain in this country, where the majority of the races are. short. Some imported strains have proved unequal to the brilliance required in the shorter races of the New Zealand turf, as their representatives have failed to find their feet early in their races, and conseouently have suffered from an initial handicap. There are good chances for a distance horse in this country, but the bulk of the money is to be earned over shorter distances, anil most of it goes to horses that can begin quickly. The speed of the Hunting Songs from the barrier have counted largely in the Successes registered both in New Zealand and Australia. In the Blandfoi'c] strain, Mr. Carrington counts oil securing just those qualities which should best suit the conditions of the New Zealand turf. He recognises that there will be no good youngsters by Blandford available at knock-down prices, but his experience, with Hunting Song in particular, has shown that it pays to invest in a really good horse, with the prospect of a useful return on the investment. He has nothing to complain of in regard to his recent ventures on this basis.