HAWKE’S BAY

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XV, Issue 895, 2 May 1907, Page 8

HAWKE’S BAY

NAPIER, May 1. F. (Bud) Williams, one of our wellknown local jockeys, to-day joined the ancient order of Benedicts. Bud was the recipient of a number of useful and valuable presents. I noticed Mr. R. Tait, the manager of the Hon. J. D. Ormond’s Te Aute property, riding a fashionably-bred mare the other day. His mount was a three-year-old half-sister by Birkenhead to Defiance, and Defiant, and though not built on the massive lines of the majority of the Birkenheads is an exceedingly nice sort. Land O’ Nod is showing a great deal of proficiency over the, schooling hurdles on the Hastings track. A. Woods has received a couple- of new pupils from Karamu. The new comers are a bay filly by Birkenhead out of Goyt, and a gelding out of Norsemaid by the same sire. The latter is a half-brother to North Star, Ice, Andree and Co., and is a solid built fellow of commanding stature. Goyt’s daughter is a nice sample of the thoroughbred, built on smaller lines than the other Birkenheads. Under the tuition of Woods on looks and breeding lines she ought to go fast, for she is built to skip, and as her grandma on the dam’s side is a half-sister to Carbine, there is not much amiss with her breeding. The pair are both rising three-year-olds. After the Hawke’s Bay meeting next week J. Webster, who had lately took office with Mr. H. Gaisford as' private trainer, will have Gauze and Swimming Belt handed over to him. This pair of gee-gees, who are the property of Mr. Gaisford, have for some time been pupils of J. Prosser at Porirua. San Ferninandez, the San Francisco —Sybil two-year-old colt in McLaughlin’s stable, has given evidence that he can use his feet all right, for though he has so far been asked no serious question his style of locomotion leaves no cause for complaint. The colt is the property of Mr. F. Martin, owner of Moata, The sports behind Golden Gate here were going for a good even when San Francisco’s son got second to Kitchenmaid at Awapuni last week. Zimmerman’s yearling full-brother and the fillies of the same age, out of Chance and Banjo, have been broken in, and are now being ridden about at Karamu. The following horses, who are engaged at the autumn meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, arrived at Hastings on Saturday:—Night, De Witte, Lady Annie, Glenculloch, Clanchattan, Volume, Elevation, and Culmination. A committee meeting of the Waipukurau Jockey Club was held last night in the Tavistock Hotel. Present: Messrs. George Hunter (chair), J. J. Bailey, G. Lomas, A. Johnston, H. Speedy and Dr. Godfray. The interim balance-sheet in connection with the late race meeting which showed a net profit of £619 was laid on the table. The committee decided that the following improvements be made in time for the next annual meeting:—Erection of ladies’ cloakroom; all sanitary arrangements to be brought up-to-date, and the approach to the grandstand to be made of an easier grade. In consequence of Mr. H. Limmer losing the services of White Squall through an accident at the Napier Park autumn meeting his nomination fees in connection with the horse were ordered to be refunded. The next annual race meeting of the club was fixed for Easter Monday, April 20, 1908. The secretary was unanimously voted a bonus of £lO.