RACING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 31 March 1925, Page 5

RACING.

fixtures. April 1 and 2—Manawatu R.C. Autumn. April 4th and 6th.-—Westport J.C. Annual. _ April 11th and 13th.—Wairarapa Racing Club. April 11 th and 13th. —Feilding .T.C. April 11th, 13th, 15th and ISth—Australian J.C. Autumn. April 13th. —Beaumont R.C. Annual. April 13th and 14th—Canterbury J.C. Autumn.

TURF TOPICSSuggestion will be ridden in the Awapuni Kold Cup by 11. Gray. Rafa has a festered foot, and is a very unlikely starter at Awapuni. Hall Mark was badly placed when he was started in open company on Thursday. Put among his class on Saturday he won nicely.

Ilka and Fool’s Paradise had every chance in the open six on Saturday, as Gray and Reed jumped them clear of all trouble at the start, and they had uninterupted passages all the way.

Gaze ran a good race on Saturday, and >as he was in need of a run the outing can be relied on to improve him considerably for his Manawatu engagements, states a Wellington writer.

The reports concerning the ability of Bevis were apparently based upon fairly substantial foundations. Had he got away well on Saturday he would ost likeiy have won. It was a good performance under 8.10.

New Moon, a> five-year-old Kilbroney gelding, trained by M. J. Carroll for the ex-AU Black, Mr George Gillett, was rather fancied for the concluding race of the Wellington meeting. He is only a pocket edition of a horse, and was never prominent in the running.

For a non-stayer Suggestion stuck to his task in the Gold Cup well, and Gray rode a tine race to get him as far as he did. Surveyor ought to go well in the Awapuni Gold Cup, which is run over a distance of ten furlongs, unless his effort over two miles has detrimentally affected him.

The. following are the nominations for the Foley Memorial, of 700 sovs., I-} miles, at the Avondale meeting:—Suggestion, Steel Bar, Spoony, Far North, Barometer, Count Cavour, Illumination, Desert Glow, Abbey Bell, Whetunui, Muscari, Cherry Ripe, Gold Rain, Polonett, Gala Day, Gold Jacket, Glen Canny, Right and Left, Royal Present, Marble Bell, Tressillian, Surveyor, Pelham, Hipo, Clandhu, Clarinda, Ruapapa, Areheen, Bright Day, Town Bank, Loyal Irish, Charlady, Tuhine, Lady Ridicule, Matinee.

Mr .T. M. Cameron, owner-trainer of The Hawk, has won great popularity in Australia. He has a good horse, and he is not afraid to let the general public know ahead what his intentions are in respect to his champion. Thus over a week ago he made it perfectly clear that he was cut to win the Doncaster next month, and had backed his horse heavily to land the stake. He will have to put up a record to do it under the weight.

The outsider of the held in' the Thompson Handicap at Trentham was last year’s winner, Sunny Loch, who had only a few tickets over the century taken out on his chance. He looked too big to do himself justice, but he raced a good deal better than many others, states a southern writer. He may not be, however, quite at his best for some time yet. In Sunny Loch, The Cheat and Lava, Me Co in be has a very useful lot. The Cheat was unlucky last week, and it would not be surprising to find McCombe adhering to his intention to make another Sydney trip during the winter.

Reliable reports from the north say that members „of the racing public have been taken down in various ways on recent occasions. Some followers of the sport have invested their money with persons who have found the present a very hard autumn, and have now resorted to paying out short. Worse still is the case of one whose enterprise in taking what was recognised as /t considerable risk far exceeded his anxiety to settle promptly. No one in Auckland would hold money against a certain horse, till the individual referred to stepped forward and said he would take the lot. He got it. 'On the Monday he announced he would settle on Tuesday. He spent Monday collecting what was due to him; on Tuesday he was missing, and he has not been seen since.