AT WOODVILLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 290, 8 December 1939, Page 4

AT WOODVILLE

Summer Candidates’ Last Run | BOLTON HANDICAP FIELD RECENT FORM REVIEWED As the Woodville meeting to-morrow and Monday will provide the majority of holiday aspirants with their final opportunities before the busy midsummer racing carnival, form at the meeting will be of major importance, and it is likely to prove a fairly reliable guide. The course is a splendid testing ground, and the wide track and long straight will provide ample opportunity for the class handicap and sprint performers tn do their best. The Bolton Handicap field contains

several aspirams for greater honours, and some of thoso engaged have shown in recent displays that they ar; not far from their best form. Siegmund's win in the St. Andrew’s Handicap at Feilding was achieved in fine style, and in spite of the fact that the Siegfried gelding has 51b. more to carry he will be in request for the ten-fur-long event. At Feilding he was conceding the pacemakers a substantial Mart half a mile from nome, but he finished full of running. Two years ago he had a great "trot” at Awapuni, winning three races, and he appears to I be back to his best. Chances of Wotan I Wotan has thrived on racing but he 'appears to be still susceptible to improvement, though he still has a race- | winning run if it can be produced at 'the right stage. At Feilding he comnrenced his run much earlier than usual, and just failed to sustain it, I finishing third the first day and equal ‘fourth the second day. A repetition 'of this form would make him a danigerous customer with 8.5. I Friesland has had only one race this 'season and thus cannot be expected to • prove dangerous to his more seasoned ■opponents. He has lost that brilliancy which marked his career a couple of • years ago. I Baran appears to have the best I prospects by reason of the fact that !he is a form three-year-old who has not been out of a place in six starts this season, yet he has only 8.1. The ! distance will not trouble him, as he was third to Beaulivre in the Derby and third to Royal Chief and Beaupartir in the Canterbury Cup, in each instance being in charge toward the latter stages. He will be dangerous • to-morrow. j Hunting Cat was fourth in this race ■ last year, and he appears to be one 'of those evergreen veterans who cannot be altogether discarded when ’ summing up prospects. Three times : this season he has won over the distance, and his Waverley Cup success will not be overlooked, ; Galteemore does not appear to be near his best yet, otherwise he could be expected to play a part in the finish. His last success was in the Hokowhitu Handicap at the Manawatu winter meeting last May. The Bigot showed at Feilding that improvement can be expected of. him in his early engagements, for he finished just behind the placed three in the Manchester Handicap. It is against him that he still shows a tendency to run out, and probably that takes too ‘much out of him. I Colonel Bogey has come to the fore recently, ana with Broughton in the I saddle he will be one of the fancied (division. He won his first open race, I the Empire Handicap last Saturday 'at Feilding, in good style, and he looks I just the sort to develop into a useful handicap performer. I Entail has not sported silk since he (raced at Te Rapa, where he was not disgraced, thougn he failed to get in Ithe money. Still, he finished fifth in iTaurangi s Waikato Cup, and this field is not so classy as the big event at ITe Rapa. He has worked well since ■ his return, and he may be expected ito run one of his best races. j The Crooner has had only one race this season, that being when he linishled third over a sprint distance at the ; Foxton meeting at Awapuni. Generi allv regarded as a sprinter, the Nigger i.Minstrel five-year-old, nevertheless, I has staying blood on his sire's side. I Flying Acre is one of the most consistent of the seasons performers for |he has been placed five times, including a win over seven furlongs at Levin, and he promises to go on with it. ■ Colfort, as a promoted hack who icarried off the honours in the Lake • Hack Cup at Levin, must be respected lon the minimum, and Limbohin, second to De Friend over nine furlongs I at Napier Park, can also be depended lon for a good effort, even against stronger opposition. Probably' backers will prefer the chances of Siegmund. Baron and Colonel Bogev, and the three-year-old appears to have the best prospects to- ! morrow. Hiding Engagements P.iding engagements tor Woodville have been announced as under:— W J. Broughton. Oragon, Lam- ! bourn Beaupartir (second day), Indian Sun, Little Dorrit, Millament, ‘ Flammarion, and Colonel Bogey. B. H. Morris. —Friesland. The Ring, Kotua, the last-named being the Kinkardine filly. P. Jarvis.—High Peei. G R. Tattersail. Siegmund, Waimutu, King’s Mark, Anita Foe. W. J. McDowell.—Primak. J. Chaplin.—Daregain. S. Anderson. —Thrasos. W. Jenkins. Lady Furst, Kehua, I Newbury Queen. •i D. B. McGregor.—Courting. . ’ S. Waddell.—Pas de Cheval. | C. B. Goulsbro.—Girl Pat. j D Redstone. —The Buzzer. J N. R. McKenzie.— Ringcraft. K. Chote.—Dynasty. W. J. Mudford.—Entail. The experience that Cheddington had in the Cambria Handicap last 'week has done him goon. a nd he will ’ ■ be an improved colt the next time he ' faces the starter. Cheddington dis--1 ' played a lot of speed in the early !! stages of the race for a "green coll i and if he makes the progress that ' horses of his age usually do at this ; period of the season he should be capable of holding his own with the best ; two-year-olds in the future, states the Auckland Star.