ON THE TURF

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 88, 14 April 1938, Page 4

ON THE TURF

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“KESTREL"

EASTER RACES

HOLIDAY MEETINGS ELLERSLIE AND FEILDING MANY FIXTURES IN N.Z. Principal interest in the North Island will rest with the Auckland and Feilding meetings.

At Ellerslie, the Easter Handicap, the Great Northern Oaks and the Great Northern Champagne Stakes will be decided on Saturday.

The Feilding Cup, with a stake o£ £7OO, will be run on Saturday, and will be contested by a field ot eight.

The Wairarapa Racing Club s meeting at Tauherenikau will occupy attention on Saturday and Monday, and fields may be a little better than those at Feilding.

On Easter Monday the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting will be commenced at Riccarton, and the Waipukurau meeting will be an extra fixture in the North Island.

The Great Easter and the Great Autumn will be the principal handicap events at Riccarton, and the weight-for-age events will be the Challenge Stakes and the Champagne Stakes.

In spite of her steadier of 9.6 Stretto promises to be a well-backed candidate in the Easter Handicap at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Wanganui will be represented by Icing in the Great Northern Oaks and by Rehearsal and Russian Ballet in the Great Northern Champagne Stakes on Saturday.

Tray Bit (7.3) was omitted from the list of acceptors for the Easter Handicap originally telegraphed. This makes the total engaged sixteen.

F. E. Baker, who has had a good leal of success as a hurdle and steeplechase rider, will ride Stretto in the Easter Handicap at Ellerslie.

L. J. Ellis will ride Amelita in th< Riverton Cup.

Wild Career will run in the Riverion Cup and then go to Christchurch for the Great Easter Handicap and the Great Autumn Handicap.

After riding at Ellerslie on Saturday, L. H. Clifford will travel by plane to Christchurch on Sunday to fulfil riding engagements on Dictate and Lady Ina at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting on Monday.

L. Dulieu, who will be attending the Feilding meeting, will ride Wotan. Footloose, and Davistock.

Mrs A. W. McDonald is now on a health recruiting trip to Australia; and her big team has been taken over by Alan McDonald.

For the Waverley Racing Club’s autumn meeting, to be held on Saturday of next week, acceptances are due to close at 8 o’clock next Tuesday.

There will be only one bracket in the Feilding race-book, this being in the Mangaone Handicap, in which Laughing Lass and Great Hope, both owned by Mr T. A. Duncan, will be coupled on the machine.

The Wanganui Jockey Club has decided to add £5O to the stake for the Wanganui Guineas of 1940, entries for which will close on June 10, 1938. This will make the race a sweepstake ?f £5 each for starters, with £450 idded.

It has been suggested that the Wanganui Jockey Club may revive the New Zealand Eclipse Stakes at the forthcoming spring meeting in an endeavour to ascertain whether support would be forthcoming for this weight-for-age event. An early announcement would be welcomed by owners.

Lo Zingaro left the Grange Stud, Westmere, yesterday and will be shipped back to Melbourne from Wellington to-daj. This Solario stallion has been enjoying a three months’ spell at Mr M. Grogans stud. Returning with him are Pharaoh (Chiet Ruler—Lady Pym) and a Lord Warden colt, half-brother to Shy, this pair going over to J. T. Jamieson’s stable. Jamieson is sending over t& the Grange Stud a Lo Zingaro colt and a Parenthesis colt, both belonging to the former New Zealand trainer.

TUAPEKA COUNTY CLUB

ACCEPTANCES FOR SATURDAY. The following are the acceptances for the Tuapeka County Jockey Club’s annual meeting to be held on Saturday:— Konini Trial Handicap (of £7O; five furlongs).—Royal Ransom 8.8,, Dazzler 8.7, Vanity Queen 8.5, Granada, Signorina 7.12. Lawrence Handicap <of £9l; six furlongs).—Trivet 9.3, Royal Gallant 9.1, Roseman 8.8. New Note 8.1, Gipsy Fair 7.11. President s Handicap, in saddle (of 3.43 class; one and a-half miles). —Allen Wrack. Elliot Derby. Kid Wolk, Koakiaenae, Mulguy, Myrtle Guy, Parishioner. Santa Brigada, Satin Guy, Sea Peter scr., Vanilla Guy 12, Happy Horn 48. All Kings 72, Master Potts 84.

Wetherstones Handicap (of £81; six furlongs).—Ballad 9.5, New Note 9.4, Irish Birdcatcher 9.1, Final Bell 8.10, Gipsy Fair 9.9. Philaster 8.1. Dazzling Eyes 7.12, Sunny Dawn. Sir Rosenor, Black Tulip 7.11. Tuapeka Handicap (of £lijo; U miles) .—Trivet 9.3, Royal Gallant 9.0, The Surgeon 8.12, Hanlon 8 8. McHeath 8.5, Toreador 7.12. Leading Boy, Dazzling Eyes 7.11. Gabriels Handicap, in saddle (of £B3; 3.5 class; one and a-quarter miles).—Allen Wrack. Antarctic Sun. Chief Power, Devotion. Ebb Tide. Flash Guy. Ginger Rey, Kid Wolf,

Koakiaenae, Lady Quilla. Mulguy, Myrtle Guy. Parishioner, Santa Brigada scr., Vanilla Guy 12, Princess Rey 24. Happy Morn, John Dee 48, Master Potts 72.

Waitahuna Hack Handicap (of £9O; one mile). - Ballad 9.5, Philaster 8.1, Dazzling Eyes 7.13, Royql Ransom 7.12, Sir Rosenor, Dazzler, Granada, Signorina 7.11.