FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1932, Page 4

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

NEW PLYMOUTH HORSES. ORWELL RACES THIS WEEK. (By “Hurry On.”) Twenty-four Carat, who contested the Maiden Handicap at Te Kuiti on Saturday, is a three-year-old gelding by Catmint from the Kilbrouey mare Boynette, hence a half-brother to Rippling Waters, who won the Auckland Welcome Stakes in the spring. He is owned by Mr. H. D. Matthews, and the race he had on Saturday was his first appearance in public. According to an Australian paper, Nightmarch is to have a spell after his return to Riccarton, and then will be trained again for spring racing. Another trip to the Rand wick spring meeting for weight-for-age events is likely, and he may make an attempt to win his second Melbourne Cup.

After a strenuous season’s racing, Karangapai has been turned out for a spell and he will probably be rested for a month or two before returning to G. Holland’s stable at Ellerslie. Karangapai raced fairly consistently through the season, but did not meet with the success ho deserved, as he. found it difficult to win up near the top of the weights in the hack class and in his attempts in open company found the opposition a little too good. For at least one horse in. England last Friday was to have been a day of some importance, for it was to have marked the entry of Orwell, the leading two-year-old of last season, into a racing term that many believe will end with classic honours thick upon him. The race was the Greenham Plate, >at the Newbury meeting, the result of which was not cabled. Orwell is also expected to contest the Column Produce Stakes at Newmarket' this week. These races lead up to the Two Thousand Guineas, which will be run on April 27. Orwell’s most serious rival for the Derby was expected to be the brilliant Mannamead, but recent advices stated he was amiss. Whether he will be able to join in the first classic race of the season jiow remains doubtful. New Plymouth Track. With Gibraltar, Orapai and Easter Time away, and nearly all of R. Johnson’s team turned out, there is not a great deal doing on the New Plymouth track at present. Royal Bengal is the only one that R. Johnson has in active work, and the Chief Ruler gelding is looking well. He shaped satisfactorily over five furlongs with Sparkling Morn yesterday, though owing to the gale blowing right . into their faces coming up the straight the time was not out of the ordinary. Gold Dawn, who looks •in good fettle, moved well over six furlongs on the outside of the course proper in Imin. 20 sec. Her trainer, W. Mantle, is at present indisposed, but it is hoped that he will soon be about again.

Sparkling Morn looks in great order and has built up quite a lot since Opunake. She moved very freely over live furlongs. ■ She will race next at Hawera next'month. Little Doubt is back in active work again, and E. George’s team has been strengthened by his rising two-year-old brother by Chief Ruler, No Doubt.'