HAWKES BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 439, 22 December 1898, Page 13

HAWKES BAY.

Woodville betting—Harmony—old Cup —Baccarat — Departures for Cisborne — Ned Kelly — Errors — Moonraker — Death of a, Dreadnought colt—A claim for stakes.

Napiee, December 15. Transactions over the first day of the Woodville Meeting were greatly in favor of . backers here. Lady Lorne, the winner of the Trial Hack Race, was, practically speaking, the only one enquired for in that race, and the enquiries on her behalf, were very solid. Daphne, who paid over £9 on the first .day, was another who was well supported, numbers of investors on Lady Lorne playing up a bit of her winnings on Forerunner’s daughter. The -stable connections of the former mare had a good commission afloat. The fielders resident here must have paid out collectively something in close proximity to £5OO over the first day’s venture. x Harmony, who captured the Open Hack Race at the Cabmen’s Sports on Wednesday at the Town and Suburban racecourse, is an attractivelybred horse.J His dam, Forest Queen, who won the Wanganui Derby in 1879, is by Gladiator from Policy, while his sire, Forerunner, is a halfbrother to Vanguard by King of Clubs. Gold Cup, who triumphed at Woodville on the second day of the gathering, was at one time a stable companion of his, the pair being members of Cuneen’s string. Since he quitted them neither have scored till Wednesday, when they both got home. December 20. J. Rollo, of Hastings, has got Baccarat in hand, and he intends taking Kempenfeldt’s daughter to Porangahau for the annual Boxing Day meeting of the Porangahau Racing Club. Landscape (a full-brother to the defunct hurdle mare Waterlily), Hinepara, and Jadoo, all of whom are racing in the interests of the Native sport, Mr Mahangi Kaiwati, left for Gisborne by the Waihoraon Friday night. The owner of the trio has acquired an establishment in close proximity to Napier Park, where his string for the future will be located. Ned Kelly, the hurdler, has been leased by Mr Kaiwhato, and he will carry his colors at the approaching meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club at Hastings next month. That able and proficient exponent of the art of race-riding, J. Redmond, has been engaged on behalf of Ned Kelly. Mr Danvers goes to Gisborne this week, his •etvices being required by the Gisborne Racing Club for the allotment of weights at their meeting this month. The local papers here fell into two errors over the Woodville Meeting, they giving Whitaker the credit of riding Lady Lorne in the race she won at that fixture. Mr Robinson, her owner, wrote to me yesterday and informed me that his - son, L. Robinson, rode the mare in her triumph. The time for the race was also incorrectly given as Imin 45 l-ssec ; it should have been Imin 48 l-ssec, which was the official ultimatum Moonraker did not leave for Auckland after all, the inducement to participate in the Manawatu and Hastings meetings being, I suppose, too strong to resist. The yearling son of Dreadnought and Lyrebird, the property of the Hon. J. D. Ormond, met with such severe injuries the other day while being conveyed by train to Waipukurau that he had to be destroyed. Along with a number of other youngsters he was being sent to Wallingford,one ofhis owner’s stations,about 18miles dis tant from Waipukurau, and by some bad luck be got down in the truck, bis companions dealing with him in a very rough manner. I saw him a couple of months ago, and I was greatly taken with his fine, noble appearance, which was suggestive of pace, deiermination, and stamina. Mr Lloyd, on behalf of Mr A. Raynor, is claiming from the Waipawa Racing Club the stakes in the race won by The Frenchman at the last meeting Jewel Gun finished second, and the stakes are claimed on the ground that The Frenchman was not eligible to 'start.