HAWKES BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VII, Issue 361, 24 June 1897, Page 6

HAWKES BAY.

Fred Collins’ string—lllness of Cuneen— Allan-a-dale-Gold Cup - Harmony — The H.B. Hunt Club - Flintlock.

Napier, June 18. Fred. Collins has got a large string under his care at Greenmeadows, they consist of Popgun, Forest Rose, Drury Lane, Ironclad, Morag, and a two-year-old filly by Renald out of the Anteros mare, Marataki. Old Robinson Crusoe is also at Collins’ place, and is looking well and hearty despite hie years. I am sorry to say that Ted Cuneen is lying very ill at Waipawa, suffering from a severe attack of pleurisy. His friends, and their name is legion, will join me in wishing him a speedy recovery. Allan-a-dale (Lord of the Isles—Krina), who a couple of seasons ago annexed a few races, has been doing stud work at Flemington, the residence of Mr Fleming, in the Waipukurau district. It .is more than probable that, he will take up his place on the training track very shortly. Gold Cup is being well looked after during her compulsory retirement. She is located at Wai pawn, and while indulged in a run in the paddock during the day she is stabled at night., so that when her term of disqualification expires she will be in good trim to start operations on. Mr F. Moeller has leased Harmony from Jack Cuneen, and he has been nominated in Mrs Moeller’s name for the Bracelet, which comes up for decision at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club Winter Meeting. I may eay that Mr Moeller

has only the lease of him for the one race. He is, in conjunction with his stable mate Mairua, located at Napier Park. Alick Mitchell is superintending the operations of the pair. A remarkably fine-looking four-year-old chestnut son of the New Zealand Cup winner in 1890, Wolverine, arrived from the South last week. He claims an engagement in the Bracelet. His dam is an Oamaru-bred mare called Cocoanut, who did some racing in the vicinity of the White City some few years ago. The Hawke’s Bay Hunt Club has decided to hold a meeting at Onga-Onga on July 21st. The programme is exactly similar to that of last year, with the exception that the nominations for the Farewell Steeplechase close at the same time and place as the rest of the events. Flintlock, the horse leased by the Hon. J. D. Ormond to fill the place of the defunct Dreadnought at the Karamu breeding establishment, arrrived by the Tasmania on Thursday. I was not at all favourably impressed with Musket’s son, who looks very stinted and plain, his beauty being not at all enhanced by bis lop ears. There is this to be said in his favour, the two sons that I have made the acquaintance of —Picklock and Haria —show both size and quality, and I have no doubt that with the beautifully-bred mares that will form his harem here he ought to beget something removed from the average.