HAWKE’S BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 938, 27 February 1908, Page 7

HAWKE’S BAY.

NAPIER, February 26.

Golden Comb, who has been having a long holiday, started work again last Monday. Gold Dust is looking and going well at present.

Messrs E. J. Watt and T. H. Lowry leave to-morrow on a visit to Western Australia. Float’s rising three-year-old son by Merriwee has started on his labours under the direction of T. Quinlivan, junior. Erl King has been set going once more. J. Cameron brought back Supplement with him from Woodville. The gelding will only be under the guidance of the Hasting’s mentors till the Dannevirke meeting. A three-year-old half brother of Waiuku and Douche was railed down last Friday from Waipukurau to Hastings. The strangers will study under the able direction of W. Whitaker. Golden Gate will shortly be p'ace<l under the control of a new trainer, Clarence O’Neill was an onlooker at the Woodville Meeting last week though going a bit short through the mangling about he got when he had the accident to one of his legs. The game horseman was otherwise in excellent health. J. Rollos, who has been laid aside for some time past, was also assisting at the Woodville gathering. John Quinlivan is going well and strong at Greymouth. In a chatty letter I had from him last week he informed me that he has Ellerton in great heart and the other members of his team, Barley and Tyshirar were a’so in good tackle. Quinlivan states that W. Moore, who used to handle Montigo and Miss Adeline has First View and Ahaura studying under him. Handicappers Morse, Chadwick and Shannon, were noting facts at Woodville last week. It is not often that W. Davies, the wellknown Hutt trainer misses the ’bus, but he did so the other day when he made a mistake at Woodville in getting the wrong tickets from the machine in the Victoria Hack Race in which he had Ancycle representing. him. The number of the gelding was six on the machine and Davies got his little bunch on number nine, Jet de More. Ancycle ran second and paid . . (the Gaming Act comes in here); well, a good price, and those who know the Hutt mentor can imagine how he went on although the fault was his own. His bad luck did not sop here, for next morning Ballarat got out of her box and was not found for some time afterwards. Luckily she showed no signs of her liberty. Two of the features of the Woodville fixture were the splendid starting of O’Connor, and the hospitable treatment of visitors by the executive of the club. Mr J. I. N. Mackie who had the looking after of the requirements of visitors never had an easy moment throughout the meeting and his courtesy and kindness stood out like a good deed in a naughty world. The hospitality of the Woodville stewards could be well copied by clubs not a hundred miles away from the breakwater.