STRONG AWAPUNI TEAM FOR HASTINGS RACES

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 April 1950, Page 2

STRONG AWAPUNI TEAM FOR HASTINGS RACES

PALMERSTON N., Last Night (Sp) —A team of 13 horses will go through from Awapuni for the second day of the Hawkes Bay meeting and the trip should be a profitable one for some of them.

Mesalliance, Omaio and Lord Holland are ir. the Hurdles. Mesalliance ran second at Feilding and would not have to improve much to have a chance at Hastings. Omaio won at Hastings last week. The margin was four lengths and the increase in weight should not. make much difference. Lord Holland ran third last week after an exhibition of slow jumping.

Ngarobi, Offender and Terrific are in the Te Mahanga Handicap. They are on the minimum and are likely to be going on with it when the others have cried enough. Emotional is in the two-year-old race. He ran third to Alarm, a stahlemate, and Te Kowhai on the first day at Feilding. He has been working well and the roomy Hastings course should suit him.

I Awapuni’s strongest “hand” is probably that for the Okawa Handicap, 'for which Nakura, a double winner iat Feilding. Livre d’Or and La Modelie are acceptors. Nakura on the second day at Feilding came from the clouds to beat La Modelie in a photofinish after a fast-run seven furlongs. Livre d’Or on the first day of the Manawatu meeting led all the way in the six-furlong Longburn Handicap and decisively beat a class field. He failed at Feilding, but looks particularly well for his Hastings engagements. He will be ridden by Broughton.