HAWKES BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume VIII, Issue 384, 2 December 1897, Page 10

HAWKES BAY.

Benedict—Tenby—Rivet and Coolgardie—Jack Parker’s fillies—West Coast gatherings. Napier, November 30. Mr Harold Russell, owner of Capon Rouge, eldest son of Captain Russell, joined the ranks of the Benedicts yesterday. He is a good sport, and will have the best wishes of turfites in his new line of life. Mr Siddells’ hurdle horse, Tenby, has been taken in hand again after a lengthened spell. At present Remington’s son is only being hacked about. Geo. Manning is now looking after Mr H. N. Weston’s pair, Rivet and Coolgardie. Mr Jack Parker, who at one time owned Sequah and the Dreadnought colt Quinton, has running at his place at Greenmeadows a trio of nice fillies. Two are three-year olds, and the other a two yearold. Of the former, one is by Mr Ormond’s stallion, Spinfeldt, from a Foul Play mare. She is an even-built, well-formed filly, who looks as if she was growing fast, and will be well served with a bit more age on her. Her companion in years is by the Musket horse Archer from a mare belonging to Mr Heslop called Brim; the same gentlemen, I may also state, owned and bred The Archer. A particularly nice cut of a mare, she has, too, rare good-looking lego and feet, which are essential points in a racehorse’s conformation. Well ribbed up, with good quarters and a well-set-up fore end, she has got a long reach, and when moving looks as if she would know right well how to use her legs. One of our local trainers is so taken with her style that he has made arrangements to lease her from her owner, with a view to speedily preparing her for racing. The two year-old is by Lord of the Isles, and shows great bone and substance. She is much more in the rough than her companions, which detracts greatly from her appearance Cceur de Lion’s victory at Wellington on the second day of the meeting, and the big dividend attached to his success, did his followers here — and they were pretty numerous —a real good turn. Target for her win on the opening day, and Rhino upon both occasions when he also won, were well backed, the starting-price layers doing business in this city getting a severe doing at the hands of punters. The Waipawa Racing Club has not received very good nominations for its Boxing Day meeting, the entries being confined entirely to local horses. With a bit better diffusion of their advertisements much more satisfactory results in the way of nominations would ensue. Say, for instance, a few insertions in the Sporting Review, which is largely subscribed to, and read by the majority of hack owners on the West Coast of this island, which is really the home of the hacks of New Zealand. Besides which, the energetic correspondent of the Review in that locality would be sure to bring the meetings of that or any club who did busines with this journal prominently before owners in that district. Let these few remarks of mine point a moral and adorn a. tale.