FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1931, Page 11

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

HORSES REACHING NEW PLYMOUTH RASTER TIME AND TRADESMAN. (By “Hurry On.”) .The prospects for the Taranaki jockey Club’s meeting next Saturday and Monday are very bright. The track has never been in better order, last week s rain having worked wonders. The visiting horses are already arriving, and it would seem certain that all those that ■ have accepted will be there on Saturday. The recent track work at New Plymouth and at Hawera shows that the Taranaki horses are in good form and will be hard to dispose of. The Auckland horsemen E. Manson •nd L. Dulieu arrived yesterday and will be riding 1 work on the track this morning. Manson is riding All Humbug, Broken Rule, Chief Savage, Fairway, Hystride and Mehal, while Dulieu s mounts include Orapai, Gibraltar and King’s Archdr. . Tradesman was expected to arrive by float last night, and Alloy will arrive by the boat from Onehunga this morning. Havering and Psychologist arrived from Hawera during the week-end. The favourite for the Railway Handlcap, Golden Wings, did the best five at Ellerslie on Saturday and seems to have created a very favourable impression. Gay Court’s two-year-old brother Boy Blue is attracting favourable notice at Hastings. Unlike Gay Court, who is a chestnut, this youngster is a brown. He is being given every chance and will not be asked to sport silk until the autumn. In the Salisbury Handicap, one mile, it the Dunedin summer meeting, _ Night Parade is handicapped to give Riri 81b. In the Hororata Cup (one mile and aquarter) Riri was 121 b above Night Parade, which works out at a difference Of 201 b. . „ •* According to a Hawke s Bay writer King’s Jest is being used as a hack on the property of his owner, Mr. J. D. Ormond, at Wallingford, and as he shows no sign of the ailment that brought about his retirement the Great Northern Hurdle winner will probably be put 'into training again with a view to racing him during the winter. . Pennyplain tried to win the Pirongia Hurdles at Te Awamutu almost from end to end. Coming into the straight the last time he was clear, but hung out badly and tired in the run home, and Kairuri got up in time to heat him. ’ However, Pennyplain should be weatly improved as the result of that race and should be prominent in his Auckland engagements. His owner will take him and Chromadyne to Ellerslie. At the end of last month a former New Plymouth resident, who has been away for some years, and a friend, Both well built men of over six feet, came to the town on holiday. Before leaving Auckland they had invested money upon • horse running at Takapuna, and they were eager to know the result. The exNew Plymouth man told his companion to come with him, and paid a call on an old friend. To his surprise, this friend failed to recognise him and, looking over the two big men, professed absolute ignorance of horses and racing. He. blandly stated that he did not even know that there was a meeting on. Naturally the pair were completely taken aback. They were only enlightened when they read in the papers of the “haul” of pencillers in South Taranaki: they had been taken for a pair of plain clothes men from another part. Rivals From Last Christmas. Th® two most fancied candidates for . the open six at New Plymouth on Saturday are Tradesman arid Easter Time. Just a year ago these two met on the first day in the Juvenile Handicap, Tradesman, a three-year-old, carrying.. 8.11 and Easter Time, a two-year-old, haying 7.6 on his back. They never gave the rest a look in, Easter Time winning by four lengths, with the third horse ten lengths behind Tradesman. Ou the second day_ of the meeting Easter 'rime did not run and Tradesman, carrying 9.2, beat Royal Routine by half a length. On New Year’s Day at Stratford Tradesman had 9.1 and Easter Time 7.11. Mrs. Graham’s youngster was at odds on, but only just arrived on the scene in time to snatch victory by a short nesk. Easter Time did not race again at. the meeting, but his rival won the Strathmore Hack and ran Gold Dawn to a nose in the Stewards’ Handicap on the concluding day. At Stratford Easter Time carried 161 b more than weight for age and Tradesman 111 b. Now in the Flying on Saturday Easter Time has 121 b under that scale and Tradesman 201 b. This means that on weight for age terms Easter Time at their last meeting conceded Tradesman slbj while on Saturday he has to concede him 81b, Leaving the subsequent form of both out of the question, as Easter Time’s last autumn and Tradesman’s this spring were both good, it would seem that the handicapper has made a good assessment of their respective. merits. STRATFORD RACING CLUB. . PREPARATIONS FOR RACES. The annual meeting of stewards of the Stratford Racing Club was held recently, there being present: Messrs. D. J, Malone (chairman), H. M. Good, R. R. Tyrer, A.'Nelson, J. Fredric, H. Cleland, A. Coleman, S. Macalister, S. Pitt, f. W. Spence, W. G. Thurston and J. S. Lyons. The chairman extended a welcome to Mr. J. 8. Lyons who had recently been appointed a steward. Messrs. Malone, Coleman and Robins were appointed a judicial committee, and stewards’ duties for the summer meeting were allotted. On Mr. J. W. Spence’s suggestion it was resolved to improve the vision of the, assistant judge at the finish of the races, and the matter was left in his hands to confer with Mr. C. H. Washer (judge) with power to act. The president and vice-president were empowered to make necessary arrangements in the event of division races. It was resolved that trophies for the summer meeting be presented in the bird cage and that the president’s wife (Mrs. D. J. Malone) be asked to make the presentation. At the monthly meeting of the general committee which followed Mr. Fredric reported regarding the installation of a new range and stated that necessary adjustments had been attended to. Mr. Nelson reported that matters in connection with horse accommodation had been attended to and the matter finalised. Mr. Fredric reported that the painting of the bird cage fence had been completed and the number board would be painted. It was resolved that repairs to the north-east top corner of the grandstand be left in Mr. Fredric’s hands.