HAWKE’S BAY HURDLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 6

HAWKE’S BAY HURDLES

BLUE BOY'S IMPROVEMENT NOVICE JUMPER'S WIN In recent years it has become very | common for th© novice jumpers to win the Hawke’s Bay Hurdles, and I Thursday’s race, with Blue Boy the victor, confirmed the present rule. Lust year the winner, Royal Banquet, was having his first start in the role, and i.motion and Miss Hastings, the winners the previous two years, were also without much experience. Blue Boy made his debut as a hurdler at Foxton less than a fortnight ago. when he ran an excellent race and finished fourth. At Otaki last week he went back to flat racing, finishing fourth and impressing as one capable of doing better on the lir>t day, but failing unaccountably to make any showing whatever on the second day. It was thought then that his. hurried racing after being only a short time up from a spoil might have given him a setback, but this explanation has now been rather ruled out by’ his ability to- win Thursday’s hurdles. It was Blue Boys’ first win in the colours of Mr. J. Wilkinson of Wellington, who recently leased him from Mr. E. N. Grensid-e and handed him to A. Al. Wright, to train. Priorly he had been off the scene for eighteen months. He is still in the rough to look at and he should therefore be susceptible to continuing improvement. . As far.as can be recalled (writes “Rangatira” of the Evening Post) he is the first son of Gainscourt to go over fences, and he is at least the first winner.