HAWKE'S BAY

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1010, 15 July 1909, Page 7

HAWKE'S BAY

NAPIER, July 12. Te Arai, who scored a double at the late Gisborne Racing Club’s winter meeting—the Park Steeplechase and the Second Handicap Hurdle Race being secured by the aged son of Monaco —since he was acquired by Mr. Cuthbert Morse a couple of seasons back, has proved a good investment, for since he has been in the new ownership he has been returned a winner on seven occasions. At the cheap figure at which he was obtained by Mr. Morse, Te Arai must show a good credit balance in the ledger.

Mr. G. P. Donnelly’s many friends throughout the Dominion will be sorry to learn that he is at present confined to his room, suffering from a very severe cold.

Nero went amiss again the other day. The trouble is in one of his pasterns, and the affliction is of such a severe nature that it is questionable if he will be able to race again for some considerable time.

The weight allotted to Jack Pot at Trentham is considered so excessive by his owner and trainer that the Chain Link gelding will be an absentee from the winter fixture of the Wellington Racing Club. J. Rae is shortly leaving this district to take up his residence again in Auckland- Mr. G. P. Donnelly’s team, which has been under his control of late, has been eased off. Rangi Thompson, who has lately been associated with the piloting of El Dorado, will for the future keep an eye on the string. A pony daughter of Golden Views, by Merriwee, who up to last week was a scholar of R. Gooseman’s, has now left that establishment. A Wellington sport who patronises the Miramar gatherings has purchased the filly through the agency of Dr. Ulic Shannon.

Theodore’s half-sister by Wonderland, Sublime by name, carried out her bat at the Gisborne Racing Club’s winter meeting, where she was successful in a triple event. Uenuku is to be put up for public auction next Wednesday week. Track-watchers are enamoured of the proficient style in which Pikapo gets through his work over the schooling obstacles at Hastings. San Fran’s son is one of the courageous sort, and is blessed with a lot of pace, consequently he should prove a good sort over the hurdles.

Of the team taken by Harry Hickey to Gisborne, consisting of Te Kohau, Lebeccio, The Squatter and My Darling, the only one to give any returns towards the expenses of the trip was My Darling, who secured second money and dividend in the Hack Flat Handicap last Friday. Hopeful, dam of Mundic, and Useful and Maputaki, who has given to the turf that good one Pink-’un, have both been booked to Birkenhead.

Bobrikoff’s dam Gossip, who was lately purchased by Mr. T. H- Lowry, is of a surety in foal to Martian. Her owner also has a rising yearling filly by the same stallion. The youngster is full of promise, and should, when the time arrives, prove a reputable bearer of the navy blue and gold racing banner. Bribery, the latest to have his name enrolled upon the list of victors for the V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, is somewhat related to Lingerer, the dual steeplechase winner at the late meeting of the Napier Park Racing Club, for his grand sire on the male side, Malua, fathered Taihoa. who produced Lingerer to Apremont.

In an appeal case that is to be heard at Wellington this month, Mr. J. C. McVay, one of the suburban delegates to the Racing Conference, will act in a judicial capacity. Five horses won eleven races at the just-concluded winter venture of the Gisborne Racing Club, and a brace of these were bred in this district, Sublime having first seen the light on Mr. H. M. Campbell’s Poukawa estate, and Baldos was foaled on Mr. C. Gollin’s Mangatarata station. The latter is a half-brother by Waiuku to Splendid Idea, Happy Thought, Good Intent, Float and Bonnie Idee, and was purchased as a yearling by his present owner, Mr. C. J. Parker, of Gisborne, for 40 guineas. Harry Hickey got rid of three of his team at Gisborne, The Squatter, Ta Kohau and My Darling all finding new owners.

Stay-at-home backers did not even up in their speculations over the late Gisborne meeting, several of the good things that were wired here from headquarters failing to materialise.