SPRING RACING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 204, 29 August 1936, Page 6

SPRING RACING

HUNT CLUB FIXTURES WANGANUI HANDICAPS NOTES AND COMMENTS Next week’s racing will be marked by the combined hunt clubs' postponed meeting at New Plymouth. .... The Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club meeting is set down for Thursday, when the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Cup will be decided. On Saturday next the Taranaki Hunt Club meeting will be held. The Otago Hunt Club will also race on Saturday next. Weights for the first day of the Wanganui Jockey Club's spring meeting are due on Monday, and acceptances will close the following Monday. The Foxton meeting follows a week after Wanganui. Nominations are due on Friday of next week. Red Manfred, a Wanganui Guineas winner, is due to make his reappearance at the forthcoming Wanganui spring meeting after an absence from the turf of some eighteen months. He won the Easter Handicap at Ellerslie ast year. Moonbeam has been sent to Westmere Stud to be mated with Beau Pere. The first event at the EgmontWanganui Hunt Club meeting next Thursday is to start at 12.15 p.m. and the intervals between races will be 45 minutes. The totalisator system at next week's combined hunts' meeting will be the win-and-place system. The dividend barometer will be used, and running descriptions will be broadcast on the course by means of loudspeakers. Explanation Accepted. Following the running of the Sylvia Park Handicap at Ellerslie on Wednesday, L. Clifford, the rider of the winner Johnny Walls, was charged with boring in on Strathire near the winning post, thus causing interference with Landlubber. The evidence of J. Mclnally, rider of Strathire. H. N. Wiggins, rider of Landlubber, and of Clifford, was taken and the explanation of the last-named, which was that his mount was hard to manage owing to the slippery nature of the course, was accepted. Hunting Cat. Hunting Cat last season by winning the Manawatu Cup and other middledistance handicaps proved up to that class but now looks a still better horse. He is reported to be going along pleasingly in his work at Ngatarawa and will be a member of the rather large contingent that will be trekking to Wanganui and Avondale. Dungarvan for Wanganui. Although Dungarvan did not run up to expectations at Awapuni last month after winning at Trentham the Colossus gelding has been doing so nicely at Awapuni that he is expected to be found among the winners -.t Wanganui next month. Dungarvan has won every time he has started on the Wanganui course. Wahine Nui’s Prospects. Owner-trainer H. Montieth has done well with the Chief Ruler mare Wahine Nui since he took her over, having a third and a win for as many starts. Wahine Nui has previously seen a rogue, but Montieth seems to have got her measure and she may add to her winning account at New Plymouth next week. Hopes for Entheos. Entheos, which came into prominence last autumn when he won a double at Trentham. is booked to reappear at Wanganui next week and it is significant to note that, while in among the hacks the first day. he is also entered for the open middle-dts-tance race on the second day. Good Brazen Colt. The presence of the Brazen colt Brazen King in the field for the 'Aanganui Guineas, to be run two weeks from to-day, adds to the New Zealand interest attached to the success of Million Dollars in the First Division of the Three-Year-Old Handicap at Moorefield- a fortnight ago. Million Dollars is by Brazen from Dollar Line, by Paper Money from Santaline. a id he was purchased at the dispersal -ale of Mr, “F. Smithden’s" horses last season at 300 guineas. Race-gangs in England. Recently a section of the Press in England raised an outcry concerning the reappearance of troublesome gangs of undesirables on English racecourses. This has brought an official reply from the stewards of the Jockey Club. They said that, so far as the enclosures were concerned, such conditions did not exist, and had been so since the organisation of inspectors under Major Wymer several years ago. Many racecourses in the bld Country-, however, have only enclosures grouped round the winning post, the remainder being common land anti open to the public. Possibly it is this section about which the complaints were made. Sporting Blood. Sporting Blood is just about twice as good looking now as he was when in Australia on his last visit, states a Sydney writer. If he is a little less improved than 100 per cent, in galloping ability, his opponents will know have been to the races. On the occasion of his last success at Randwick he ran away from his pursuers in the straight. When he settles down to work over half a mile he gives a very similar impression. Peter Riddle now his charge of this fellow. Fair Copy Not in Derby. When the entries for next year’s classic races in England were scrutinised recently it was found that Fair Copy was not in the Derby. For some reason Lord Derby’s colt had been entered for the Tw-o Thousand Guineas and St. Leger, but, owing it is believed to a clerical error, he was left out of the major .classic. It will be hard luck

Is for Lord Derby if he has the best colt d of the year, which is not improbable, •f and not be able to run him in ch? big k race at Epsom.