FROM TRACK AND STABLE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1932, Page 4

FROM TRACK AND STABLE

CLAREMORE’S PROSPECTS

AMMON BA NEXT FOR AMERICA.

MANAWHENUA GALLOPING WELL.

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“Hurry On.”)

The two-year-old Margaret Rose went some fair races in juvenile events during the autumn and gave the impression that she would prove useful later on. She has been working well on the track at Hastings and is expected to run prominently in the maiden event at the Hawke’s Bay meeting to-morrow. Manawhenua has gone the right way since racing at Ellerslie and was responsible for a particularly smart half mile in company with Croupier the other morning. There is no doubt that this son of Acre can hold his own with the best in the land on a heavy track. Croupier also is doing all that is asked of him and is ready to race at any time now.

Among the horses nominated for spring events in Australia are Silver Ring, Gaine Carrington and Inflation, who were among the best two-year-olds in the Dominion this season. The absence of this trio will rob some of the early three-year-old classics in New Zealand of a deal of interest.

The two Ellerslie hunters Thespis and Haakon preformed quite well at the recent Great Northern meeting and look like turning out more than useful in their class. Both have continued the right way since racing and should be in great order for the Pakuranga meeting in August. His excursions over the small fences appear to have worked an improvement in Henry of Navarre and he went two good races on the at at Otaki. He is a fine big horse who looks well up to winter weights, and he may make his presence felt in the hack events on the

Hawke’s Bay circuit. The South Canterbury Jockey Club’s winter meeting will be held at Washdyke to-morrow, and indications point to it being more than usually successful. Riccarton stables are fairly well represented, but the club is even more indebted to the support from training sta'bles further south for the excellent fields which have been attracted. This applies particularly in the case, of the

two jumping races, whicn promise particularly well, with a strong contingent of the horses that provided such good displays over the obstacles at the Dunedin meeting; Claremore made a wonderful improvement from the time he failed badly at Te Rapa until he contested the Great Northerns. He was never in the hunt at Hamilton, yet he went a splendid race in the Ellerslie steeplechase to finish third behind. Copey and Callamart. Should he make as much improvement this month he will take no end of beating in the big event at Trentham. He was going particularly well in this race last year when he fell in the last circuit. A. Cook has in his stable at Te Awamutu a half brother to the wayward but brilliant Rafa, and hopes are entertained that he will prove good. There was no doubt concerning the quality of Rafa, who would, have held his own with the best sprinters in the land blit for his antics at the barrier. A Te Aroha report states that the Catmint horse Sargon, winner of the Takapuna Alison Cup last season, but never very sound, has been leased from Dr. E. H. B. Milson, of Auckland, by Mr. L. S. Otway, of Kiwitahi. He has been in light work near Cambridge for the past three months, and as he lias shown no present signs of unsoundness he will be persevered with, and. will probably be seen out under colours during ths winter. Morena, an aged son of Bisogne, looks like developing into a really useful hurdler, and. it would not be surprising to see him win shortly in much better company than he has so far encountered. He used to be trained by F. D. Jones at Riccarton, and just prior to .the last South Canterbury meeting was sold, winning at his first attempt in his new colours at that fixture. At the recent Dunedin meeting - Morena accounted, for the June Hurdle Race, but lost his rider in the Otago Hurdle Race, while on the last day he was a good second to the much more experienced Captain’s Gift. Morena is due to make his next appearance at the South Canterbury meeting to-morrow and should go well. Private advice received in Auckland from Mr. C. C. Sheath, in Australia, state that Ammon Ra is being sent to America early next year. Arrangements are so far forward that a trainer and jockey have been engaged to accompany the horse. J. T. Jamieson, who is the trainer of Ammon Ra, has indicated that there is little likelihood of his making the trip, but Maurice McCarten, the regular rider of the gelding, said a few weeks back in Sydney that if Ammon Ra went to America he -would be a member of the accompanying party. Canterbury Nominations.

The nominations received last week for the Canterbury Jockey Club’s classic races show a big falling off, the total being 494, compared with 700 last year. The following table shows the details:. —- 1931 1932

The Reason Why. In discussing the question of the most favourable quarters for the breeding and rearing of bloodstock, A. B. (‘‘Banjo”) Patterson, writing in the Sydney Mail, says: “Straws show how the wind blows, and perhaps the air shows how the horse thrives. This is not so empirical a statement as it may seem, for there is evidence to support it. The ancestors of the English thoroughbred mostly came from the dry, hot air of Arabia, and it might be supposed that their descendants would revel iu the drier and hotter parts of this State. But the English thoroughbred has travelled a long way since the Arabian days, and, even as certain Australian fish have adapted themselves to climb trees, so the horse in England has adapted himself to a soft, moist air and luxurious green grass, such as his ancestors never saw in Arabia. One hates to admit it, but the New Zealanders are breeding a higher average of first-class horses than we are just now, and their climate approximates very nearly to that of England. We have every kind of soil here and every kind of water; so it must be the air—'there is something in the seaside air,’ as the old song has it.”

Welcome Stakes 82 55 Middle Park Plate >... 67 54 Champagne Stakes 108 /a Challenge Stakes (yearlings) Challenge Stakes (all 90 55 ages) 90 67 Derby - 174 119 Oaks 89 69 Totals 700 494