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Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1930, Page 4

Since returning front Feilding Crennatown has been showing continued improvement, though he has not really been seriously asked to gallop. A race like the Atidwa Hack Cup should suit him perfectly and, if started there, he looks like being hard to beat. • * * *

All going well, Aucklanders will have the . opportunity of seeing the A.J.C. Breeders’ Plate winner, Movie Star, and his mate, Hunt the Slipper, in action at Ellerslie during the holidays. They are being kept going at Otaki by A. D. Webster, who intends to make the trip with' them. This will be their firet appearance in New Zealand. « ■» , • •

Dochlaggan has had a couple of short sprints during the week and has evidently overcome the alight trouble which prevented her appearance at the New Zealand Cup meeting. ‘She is looking in. splendid order and will not require much fast work to be right for the Dunedin summer meeting.

After his good spring form it whs surprising to find Lord Romeo (Romeo — Agnestes) quoted at 25’s for the Horsley Handicap at Warwick Farm on December 3, but he finished fast into second place behind Pavilion and looks due for an early win. « ♦ .* • '

May Race Again. The V.R.C. Oaks winner, Barbette, received such a heavy fall in the Williamstown Cup that it was thought she might not race again. However, her owner, Mr. A. P. Wade, seated the other day that she had made such a good recovery that it was probable she would again stand training. At the same time he had not definitely decided whether he would race her again, or use her at the stud next season.

Good judges at the Waipa meeting noted a considerable improvement in Vandyke’s barrier manners since young Joe Gray took him in hand. Vandyke was obviously in need of a race and should do much better at his next outing. » * • *

The veteran Llandudno, .who brought off a big surprise at the Feilding meeting, was to have raced over the battens at Woodville, but went lame on the morning of the races. “Doc” Knapp will find it difficult to keep the old chap on his feet.

Fortune’s Wheel, the five-year-old sister to Phar Lap, now in work at Riccarton under the care of Mrs. J. Campbell, is coming to hand very satisfactorily and will shortly be given some fiist work. She cloefely resembles her brother in colour and build, and her future career will be watched with much 'interest. ‘ The four-year-old mare Easterly, who has now a record of two Starts and two wins over hurdles, is out of Sanseveria by San Fran from Eastwind by Euroclydon. Eutoclydon Won the New Zealand Cup, Derby arid Canterbury Cup treble in 1895, and later sired Eurus, a Grand National winner.

The Wingatui team of D. P. Wilson may be split up for the holidays. The present intention is to race Caterpillar and Rin Tin Tin at the Dunedin and Invercargill meetings, and to send Black Duke, Assemble, Kerbside and Wise Choice to the West Coast.

Riding engagements announced in connection with the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap are as follows:-— H. Wiggins (My Own,- Gesture), R. Me? Rae (Gay Cockade), H. Gray (Star Stranger and Hunting Day), A. G. Parsons (Royal Tea), E. Ludlow (Codnt Cavour and Great Star),,R. McTavish (Chromadyne), A. Eastwood (Gay Crest), G. Humphries (Paquito). «*. * . *

The two-year-olds Nightguard, br°ther to phar Lap, Water er to Agrion and White Wings, And Static, by Hunting Song from Erie, are still having the run of a paddock in the country, but A. McAulhy intends to make another start on them on his return from Auckland.

When being taken back to Whangarei last Thursday evening from Huanui, Mr. J. P. Tierney’s stallion Delightment (Catmint— Delightful), developed internal trouble as the result of a rupture and had to be destroyed near Glenbervie.

Pegaway was giving aalb., or 81b. worse than weight-for-age tenni, to Karapoti when he suffered a halflength defeat on Saturday. Horsemanship, too, counted to some extent in the win and, when everything is considered, Pegaway looks like being every bit as hard as the three-year-old in the Railway Handicap. ' . » • • ♦

Gray’s Bad Luck. . ■ The Auckland Clip is one of the few races the Dominion’s leading horseman, Hector Gray, has yet to succeed in. Gray was engaged to ride Concentrate last year, but he broke his collar-bone when Ohinemuri fell in the Te AwamUtii Cup and the mount passed on to E. Ludlow. In 1918 an accident was also the deciding factor in robbing Gray of a victory. He had been in hospital for many weeks as the result of a bad fall and when he went out dn Sasanof he was very weak. Mascot, ridden by the vigorous apprentice L. G. Morris, beat Sasanof by 4 very narrow margin, and Gray freely admits that had he done his part &B well as Sasanof did his, that great stayer would have won the three big crips— Melbourne, New Zealand and‘Auckland. A Good Hack. Included in the entries for hack events at the Auckland summer meeting is Bayacre, a three-year-old gelding by Acre from Bayana. This gelding was racing in Australia early in the present season, where he won two six-furlong races and also finished in the money in several other events, including a second to Veilmond in the Hobartville Stakes, seven furlongs. Since returning to New Zealand Bayacre won the Hokio Handicap, five furlongs, at the Levin meeting last month, in which he carried 8.13 and won nicely. These performance® indicate that Bayacre is a bit above the ordinary run of hacks, and if taken to Ellerslie he should perform will. A Thespian Winner. Aspian, who created a big surprise At Wajpa on Saturday, when he won the Waipa Plate, is a two-year-old bay col.t by Thespian from Aspic. Aspic was bred in England in 1920, beipg by Polymelus from Jelly, by Isinglass—Lady Ailsa, by Ayrshire. She had produce in England, and was imported by Mr. G. M. Currie, who put her first to Thespian, ASpian being the foal. At the last Trentham sales he went • for 300gns. Thespian’s stock have all shown galloping ability, and as Aspic is a particularly well-bred mare, Aspian looks like turning out ft bargain. He has been considered good enough to keep his engagement in the Great Northern Foal Stake*. *