TRACK AND STABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 3 May 1938, Page 9

TRACK AND STABLE

SLIPPERY’S SUCCESS . AT HOME IN MUD J. LEACH’S WINNING MOUNT PASSION FRUIT LAME. (By “Trenton.”) Passion Fruit showed signs of lameness after ■ the Hartgill Handicap at Dannevirke on. Saturday. , He may have been harder to beat had he been sound, but the winner, Slippery, relished the heavy going, and won really well. Only Ride. J. Leach, who rode Master Hector in his rather sensational win at Dannevirke, had his only ride at the meeting. Before the start Master Hector bolted and held the race up for 10 minutes while he was brought back. Still Winning.

Slippery, winner of the big race, the Hartgill Handicap, at Dannevirke on Saturday, is an eight-year-old gelding by Hunting Song—Royal Moment Although he has been off the scene for short periods, he has done a lot of racing and has been a good stakeearner. The successful jockey, P. Atkins, has been associated with most of his wins. Worth Watching. Amatory is standing up to his racing well, and is steadily improving. He will be worth watching at Wanganui. Middle. Middle, who is back on the tracks at Wanganui after a spell of two months, is looking in good shape to start another preparation. He has put on considerable condition, and it will be some ibefore he is ready to race again Greatly Improved. Reipar has been paid up for in the seven-furlong event at Hawera next Thursday, and, as he is greatly improved as a result of his race at Waverley, he should give a good account of himself. Sister to Wotan.

Under H. Dulieu's, guidance on the New Plymouth tracks is a yearling full-sister to Wotan, which will rac in the same ownership as the Melbourne Cup winner. Only One More.

One more hack hurdle race would place Sporting Song beyond that clasThere is little hope, however, of his racing yet awhile, as he is being treated for a leg, which gives the appearance that it is* very doubtful whether he will .be in any events in the next few weeks. Sporting Song has been handicapped for the Egmont meeting, and one would like to see him compete, as he is very good at his best. English Parentage.

Though bred in the Dominion. Francis Drake has a wholly English pedigree his sire, Chief Ruler, and his dam,’ Tame Duck, being imported horses. Tame Duck was bred by Captain Greer, and as a yearling was sold for 70 guineas at the Newmarke! sales. She won a T.Y.O. Selling Plate at Newmarket in 1915, and was sold afterwards for 280 guineas. As she was almost immediately sent out to Mr. Armstrong in New Zealand, the purchase was apparently made on his behalf. She did not race here, but went to the stud in 1918. Her first foal was born dead, but at intervals since have come Coot, Duck s Egg (dam of Round Score). Admiral Drake, Duckling, Miss Lorraine Quacker, Bumble, and Francis Drake Duckling is the dam of the Bean Pere filly for whom Mr. E. Riddiforo paid 1000 guineas in January. Hunting Go.

Hunting Go has again appeared on the Invercargill course. Last winter he was regarded as one of the most promising ’chasers in training. Nordic Song.

Nordic Song has been turned out and will race in future as a gelding. He appeared in a flourish of trumpet) but did not succeed in gaining a place in several starts, although his track work put him in the boom. The Sydney Sales.

With an aggregate of 32,225 guineas for 131 yearlings and an average of 246 guineas, William Inglis and Sons Pty., Ltd., received the best results for an opening day at Sydney thoroughbred yearling sales since the boom period waned in 1929. A feature of the sale was the demand for the stock of Heroic, four of whose sons realised 5800 guineas, an average of 1450 guineas. The top price, 230 U guineas, was the highest price obtained for a yearling since 1929, when the top price, 2000 guineas, follovveo the record of 6750 guineas set in 1936. Bonheur de Pere. Bonheur de Pere is claimed to be the best two-year-old filly of the season in Australia. She was bought oy Mr. A. E. Smith at 400gns. when he came over to secure Beau Pei. e a. 3300gns. Roselale, the dam of th filly, was got by Kilbroney Rosalia, by Stepniak— Rosella, by S~ato Delaval —Role, a half-sister to St Hippo who won the New Zealand Cup and Auckland Cup as a three-yeai -old.