HAWKE’S BAY

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 889, 21 March 1907, Page 7

HAWKE’S BAY

NAPIER, March 20. J. (Paddy) McLaughlin has lately strengthened his team by the arrival of San Fernanda a rising three-year-old chestnut colt by San Francisco out of Sybil that has been purchased by a patron of his establishment. The new-comer is a rare stamp of a horse showing quality and solidity throughout the whole of his conformation. San Fernanda is a half-brother to Guardsman, who proved himself a

real good one when he was looking for scalps some few seasons back. Miss Gladys, the dam of the champion Gladsome, is also a half-blooded relative of Mr. McLaughlin’s latest acquisition. J. Webster, who this month took up the position of private trainer to Mr. H. Gai sf ord has got going with his new students. The pack in work consist of Golden Days (Gold Reef — Rangipi), Miss Corelli (Sir Lancelot —The Shrew), and Huramua (Daunt —Seal Brown). Webster is also handling a couple of yearlings, one being a full brother to Merriwai and the other a brown son The Possible and Lifebelt. Mr. R. Te Hiangi informed me the other day that his two-year-old colt by The Possible out of Maid Marion should be called Tutahi, not Tutaki, and he cannot understand why the

chairman of the Conference has disproved of the name, for as he says there is no other horse of the same appelation in the Stud Book, and the cognomen is applicable, Tutahi meaning the first in the Maori language. Mr. E. Amundsen has leased Blue Streak to Messrs. Shaw and Docherty, of Ongaonga. The Squatter met with a bit of bad luck the other day, The Possible’s son by some unaccountable means injurying one of his hind feet so badly that he will have to be one of the invalids lot for some months to come. Floria was put over the battons the other morning at Napier Park, and the talented style in which he got over the obstacles proved beyond doubt that his retirement has not caused him to lose his cleverness. Collelo has also been giving Ngaru-

hoe (The Possible —Rotomahana) schooling exercises over the sticks. For a green fellow he shapes all right, and with the example of a good schoolmaster like Florio should develop in a useful member of the leaping brigade. Careton, when competing in the Omahu Hurdles at the Park on Thursday, broke down in his off fore leg. There is a likelihood that Mr. W. H. Hartgill, the popular racing judge, will stand for election as a country racing club delegate on the Racing Conference.