NOTES AND COMMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 46, 26 February 1935, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

There will be racing at Opunake tomorrow when the Opunake Racing Club will hold its annual meeting. Fixtures for Saturday. On Saturday next keen racegoers will have plenty to interest them, for there will be racing at Banks Peninsula, Franklin and Napier Park. The Hiker Amiss. The Hiker went amiss at Takanini last week and will be off the scene for some time. Sale-ring Bargain. Arachne, the three-year-old daughter of Corban and Welkin Queen, who won the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield, is included among bargains of the sale-ring. As a yearling she was bought for 75 guineas.

Good Under Light 'Weights, Venite, the winner of the Gore Racing Club Handicap, made the rest of the field go all the way. She shapes well under a light-weight, and was capably handled by J. Taylor, a novice rider attached to F. W. Ellis’ stable. Venite was got by Tractor from Andante, by Clarenceux —Chantress, bj r Birkenhead, and belongs to the same taproot at Tauramai, the winner of the Dunedin Cup. A Chance on Paper. Vintage has a good pull in the weights for the Essendon Stakes to be run at weight-for age on March 2. He is entitled to an allowance of 141 b. as a result of his wins not including one at the scale of the value of 500sovs. His only win at weight-for-age was the Clifford Stakes worth 250sovs. A Sportsman. It is understood that the present owner of Nightly places all the profits made by the son of Night Baid into a fund for the benefit of the children of his brother, who first owned the horse. Emotion Resumes. Emotion has rejoined G. Greene’s team at Hastings after a good spell. The holiday was thoroughly earned; few horses did as much racing as Emotion last season. He ran good races over hurdles as well as on the flat, and probably will do more hurdling this winter. Next at Pukekohe. Limex, the best of whom will nut be seen until soft tracks obtain, will be .having her next start at Pukekohe on ►Saturday. The racing programme of the daughter of Limond and Exactly has been limited this season, but on the promise she showed last year she should add to her account as soyn as conditions underfoot are to her liking. She is looking much improved in condition of late. Gelding Named. The name Gloucester has been lected for the three-year-old gelding by Acre from Kinetic. He is a halfbrother to Adalene and is a nicely proportioned fellow who has shown distinct promise in his preparation so far. Gold. Crest May Come Back. When he, was retired from the tracks two seasons ago it was surmised that Gold Crest would fie ver race again, lu the interim he has done duty as a hack and the damaged tendon has got right again. Now it has ben decided to give the gelding another trial, and he is in steady work at Riccarton. Some Newcomers. Gardianelle, who is likely to make her debut in the Juvenile Stakes at the Banks Peninsula meeting next Saturday, is a two-year-old chestnut filly by Lord Warden from Moiselle, by Solferino from Mademoiselle Ixe, by Stepniak from Miss Dalrymple, by Pilgrim s Progress. She is a member of the team of T. H. Gillett. That trainer has broken in the Limond—Curtain filly purchased by Mr. E. Hay at. Trent ham last month. Culotte (Robe spierre—Dame Strait lace) a two-year-old member of this team, is having a month’s rest owing to her ricking a joint.