HAWKE’S BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1291, 21 January 1915, Page 12

HAWKE’S BAY.

Iliads Hero and Downham Galloping Freeiy—Football Responsible for Attractive Displays. (From Our Napier Correspondent.) NAPIER, Monday. Slanter, the younger half brother to Golden Glade, by Gold Reef, will be raced in the interests of Messrs. .1. M. Cameron and H. Jago. The following team left here last week to represent the “Bay” at the Wellington R.C’s. meeting:—lndigo,

Alces, Sicily, Gold Foil, Marshal McDonald, Beldame, Desert Gold, Iliad’s Hero, Football, Blackall, Dribble, Sea Pink, Downham, Try Hard, Croesus, Fair Rosamond, Black Heart, Kooya, St. Elmn, and Evadne.

F. Lind, who for some time past has been occupying the post of private trainer to Mr. G. P. Donnelly, severed his connection with the establishment last week. Gold Foil made the trip to Trentham under the care of R. Gooseman, who will attend to Mr. Donnelly’s filly during her stay at Trentham. On her return she will be handed over to J. Oldfield at Greenmeadows. This trainer, when Lind quitted Mr. Donnelly’s employ, was entrusted with the control of Gold Shot and a five-year-old gelding by Gold Reef that Lind had been moulding into shape. During his track essays since he came back from Ellerslie, Marshal McDonald has been showing a lot of temper, and at times it has been a difficult matter to get him to extend himself to any extent.

The racing that Iliad’s Hero got through does not seem in the least

to have had any serious effect upon him, for since his return to the Park he has presented a fine healthy appearance, and has bee n .galloping last and freely. Downham previous to his departure for Trentham accomplished several excellent gallops, and if he reproduces them at Trentham this week, he is a certainty to get on the winning list there. There is no foundation for the report that in the near future Hereford would cross the water to race in the Commonwealth States, the owners of the white faced gelding being of the opinion that there will be ample scope for Hereford to assert himself in the Dominion.

India, the two-year-old full sister to Indigo, is moulding up into a real handsome filly. She shows a great deal more substance than did her brother at the same age. The connections of Football are inclined to favour his winning prospects in the Wellington Cup. The son of All Black and Float has come on greatly of late, and has been responsible for some attractive displays on the hurry-up at Hastings. A younger full sister of his?, Dribble by name, is also going well in her training work, and she will be seen out at Trentham. B. Deeley will have the leg up on Croesus in his attempts at Trentham this week; the Auckland horseman having accepted the mounts at Woodville after the Royal Fusilier horse had made such an excellent impression at the summer meeting of the club last month. Beldame and Desert Gold have not been asked to exert themselves to any great extent since their return from the Auckland campaign. Both mares, however, look in the best of heart, and it would appear as if, judging by their outlook, that more favourable financial prospects are in store for Mr. T. H. Lowry. Messrs. H. Coyle and A. G. Wood, handicapper and starter respectively to the Wairoa County Racing Club, leave for the scene of hostilities on Monday next. After assisting at the gathering they both journey on to Gisborne, where similar offices are filled by them in connection with the Gisborne Racing Club.