SPRING RACING CAMPAIGN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 243, 13 October 1937, Page 5

SPRING RACING CAMPAIGN

AUCKIAND CUP ENTRIES The Masterton spring meeting will be held to-morrow ajid Saturday. As Masterton is just under 120 miles from- Wanganui it would not be surprising if several parties of keen form followers made the trip. The handicaps for the first day of the Wellington Racing Club’s spring meeting have made their appearance and will be perused with interest. The Trentham meeting will be a three-day affair, commencing on Thursday of next week and being continued on the Saturday, with the concluding day to be held on Labour Day holiday.

Twelve months ago the Trentham spring meeting, also over three days, found* the totalisator turnover reaching £133,562 10s, half of which was handled on Labour Day. It is safe to prophesy that these figures will be substantially improved on at the forthcoming meeting. The weights for the Waverley Racing Club’s Labour Day fixture draw attention to the meeting, which is popular with racegoers in the Wanganui and Taranaki districts. Acceptances are due to close next Monday night.

Nominations for the Auckland Cup, Railway Handicap, Summer Cup, Racing Club Handicap, Grandstand Handicap, King’s Plate and Clifford Plate at the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting close with the secretary, Mr. W. S. Spence, at 5 p.m. next Friday.

A half-sister to Clarion Call has made her appearance at the Grange Stud, where Saxon Saint (Hallomas— Formless) has a brown filly foal by Phaleron Bay.

The imported mare King Cup, now at the Maxwell Stud, has foaled a brown colt to Phaleron Bay and will be mated with Captain Bunsby. Sparkling Sun (by Hunting Song) has a brown filly by Phaleron Bay at the Grange Stud, Westmere, and will again be covered by the Phalaris horse.

The Trentham trainer T. R. George has sent the two-year-old Doric — Tamarzand colt Doric to The Grange agistment farm at Westmere for a spell, as the youngster ricked himself during or shortly after his race at the Marton spring meeting. When next he races Doric will be a gelding.

Doric takes the box vacated by Grateful, who has been returned to his owner after enjoying a beneficial spell at The Grange. The Taranaki and Stratford midsummer meetings will show an increase of £5OO each in the stake-money offered, and a like figure will be the increase in the stakes at the Franklin Racing Club's meeeting. The Franklin Cup will be worth £5OO and the club will also have a hack cup of £3OO.

Acceptances for all first-day events at the Wellington meeting, together with acceptances for the Harcourt Stakes (third day), are due to close at 5 p.m. on Friday.

Lilimond ,dam of Wildflower, has foaled a bay colt to Phaleron Bay at Mr. J. G. Alexander’s Cranleigh Stud, Maxwell.

Mr. F. Bristol’s Grand Knight mare Hawora has a brown filly to Beau Pere at the Maxwell Stud and is on a visit to Phaleron Bay.

When The Bigot won the Little Flaxmere Handicap at Hastings on Saturday the Australian-bred horse was making his first effort under silk since winning the Adderstone Hack Handicap at the Awapuni autumn meeting. In the interim he has enjoyed a let-up at The Grange agistment farm at Westmere, with similar happy results to those which attended Chief Ranger’s reappearance in the active brigade at the Wanganui meeting.

The Bigot was responsible for an impressive effort in winning the Little Flaxmere Hack Handicap at Hastings. Though he drew No. 17, a smart beginning had him always prominent and he fought off a strong challenge by the outsider Granvale at the end.