JOTTINGS FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19881, 7 March 1939, Page 9

JOTTINGS FROM TRACK AND STABLE

RACE CALL SPRINTS GOOD TARANAKI TRIAL NOTIU.M OUTCLASSED YEARLINGS AT WEST MERE By “Trenton" An exceptionally fast trial by Race Call at Hawera last Saturday morning should bring him into favour for the sprint at the Taranaki meeting on Thursday. In company with Notium, he dashed over five furlongs in 1.0 2-5 sec. However, Notium was well back at. the end, and as he appears to have lost a good deal of his former brilliance, he is to be tried over distances longer than sprint races. Sportsman Returns Mr. E. W. Spencer, owner of Rabble, who won the Banks Peninsula Cup at Motukarara on Saturday, recently returned from a trip to England and will remain in New Zeaianc. for a few weeks. He has much improved in health, and is at present on a trip to Otago. Melbourne Rider The Melbourne horseman L. Gough has gone to Riccarton with the mtentioUof 1 settling in the district tor the jumping season. He has been i Auckland for a few months past and has had a good deal of experience m jumping races. Above the Ordinary Electric Spear, winner the hurdles at Pukekohe on Saturday, is evidently above the average. He is a half-brother to Electric Flash and Dark Prince, both winners nor fences. Lame Again Lady Leigh was given a month’s holiday after the Christmas meetings. She started work some weeks ago, looking all the bettor for her spell, in spite of her hideously enlarged knee. She was under orders to race at/the Wellington and Manawafu meetings but it is very doubtful if she will be there. The hard ground was not long in finding out her weak knee, and she has gone lame. Change of Luck

Defoe added another winner to his already long list when Improvident scored, at Motukarara oa Saturday. Improvident is a three-year-old colt by Defoe —Misgovern, and until Saturday had not had the best of luck in his recent starts. Twice he has just

been touched off, and on each occasion it was a very useful horse that did it. The last time it was the three-year-old colt Spartan, who went straight on to Wingatui and ran a first and a second. Classic to Spoil There is no more consistent a youngster than Classic in the north. He has only once been out of a piace in his eight starts this season, but is now to be turned out and will not be produced again until pext season. He is to be gelded during his holiday. One to Remember Benevolent, the big youngster by Beau Pere—Dignified, who ran a close third to Great Swoop and Scandal at Riccarton last November and was then spelled, has started working again. A big fellow, he was gelded during his spell, and the operation has been beneficial, as he is not carrying as much top hamper as he did last spring. On Staying Lines Having successfully accomplished 11 furlongs in the Herries Memorial Clip, it is quite on the cards that Llangollen will prevail over longer distances. Llangollen is bred on staying lines and is a daughter of The Ace (son of Bayardo) and Lianbcris, by Marble Arch from Recoup, by Hierarch from Agatha, by Nelson from Sister Agnes (imp.), by Rosicrucian. Russian Ballet Russian Ballet is likely to accompany Smoke Screen on the Taranaki trip, and if she starts in the open sprints she should be prominent. At any rate, the races at New Plymouth should do her good in view of her Trentham engagements. Team of Jumpers Mr. W. E. Hazlett has a strong team of steeplechasers at work at Invercargill, but El Caballo and King Willow are likely to be his only jumping representatives at Riverton at Easter. It is not intended to hurry Burwood. as his owners are set on racing him at the Grand National meeting, with the Enfield Steeplechase as one of his chief missions. Hunting Go was placed in work earlier in the year, but may not be persevered with, as it is thought that he may be troubled in the wind. Baltruin’s efforts are likely to be confined to hurdling, but a newcomer to the team is Actor, who shaped promisingly as a hunter last winter arid won several point-to-point events. El Caballo has already schooled well and promises to live up to the encouraging form he displayed in his first season. King Willow is at present suffering front a knee injury he received when he fell at Winton. but it is yielding to treatment. Australian Yearlings Eleven of the high-priced yearlings purchased by Australian sportsmen at the National Sales last month are at present being broken in at “The Grange” stud, Westmere. With two other yearlings as well to look after and four horses from Australia having a holiday on the property, Mr. M. Grogan, the master of the siud, has his time well occupied. The yearlings at “The Grange” are: Tiderace —My Own colt (who brought top price of 1450 guineas). Beau Pere —Barbacan colt, Beau Pere —Emberalto colt, Ringmaster—Watervvings colt, Phaleron Bay—Columba colt. Lord Quex —Parley colt, Myosotis— Wartone colt, Foxbridge—Eager Rose colt, Phaleron Bay—Bayloeh filly. Bulandshar- —High Art filly, and Myosotis—Cheloid filly, who were all purchased for Australia; and a colt by Lo Zingaro—Podokes, sent, over from Sydney by J. T. Jamieson to be agisteo in the Dominion, and a colt by Phaleron Bay—Silver Rule, who ;s being broken in for Mr. W. H. Gaisford. They are a fine lot of youngsters whose eventual merit only the race track will be able to distinguish.

The horses from Australia having a spell at Westmere are the stallion Actor, that useful performer Denis, and two untried three-year-old geldings by Son o’ Mine and Verbius respectively.