WANGANUI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1314, 1 July 1915, Page 12

WANGANUI.

Aruake to be Schooled Over Big Fences—Awahou and Master Lupin Doing Good Work—Future Track Events—Alf. Neale’s Charges in Capital Fettle—Winter Cup Candidates.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

MONDAY, June 28

Aruake went very sore after racing in the Hawke’s Bay Hurdles, and W. Rayner decided to bring the gelding home instead of keeping him at Napier for the Park meeting. He is going on all right now, and will be in work again by the end of the week. Rayner intends to school him over the big fences, and anticipates that the son of Chasseur will shape well over country. He has proved himself a very fine jumper over hurdles, and there is no reason why he should not negotiate the bigger obstacles. If he does as well as expected he will be sent to Trentham for the steeplechase events there. Awahou and Master Lupin have been in Wanganui for a week or two now, being got ready for the Wellington and Grand National meetings. Both have been doing good schooling work over the hurdles, and they promise to be very hard to beat in what-

ever events they start at Trentham or Riccarton. Master Lupin has taken to the jumping game very kindly indeed, and he shapes like a veteran, clearing his obstacles very cleanly and in dashing style. On Wednesday morning he and Awahou were being schooled and both jumped splendidly until the fifth hurdle, when Awahou made a mistake and toppled over, his rider, Jack Myles, getting a nasty cropper and badly hurting both shoulders. He is now in the hospital. Awahou was none the worse for the accident. Master Lupin finished his task all right, and he is likely to make things interesting for the best of them when he starts in a hurdle race. He is engaged in both the Parliamentary Handicap and the Hurdles at Trentham, and it is hard to say in which event he will go to the post, though in some quarters it is reckoned that the Wanganui Cup winner will start in the Parliamentary, the stable relying on Awahou for the hurdles. Kew’s victory at the Napier Park meeting on the opening day came as a surprise to many of the usual followers of the Fordell stable, who considered the Sylvia Park gelding would probably want a race into him before winning.

There is very little doing on the local tracks just now, Qut things should liven up a little shortly. Alex Hall has the big chestnut which he

purchased on the other side in steady work, also a two-year-old. He has not yet put Denise Orme into work again, but she will be taken in hand almost immediately. J. Peachey has St. Gate looking bigger than ever he did, and he will be putting the work into him shortly, as it will not be long before the Marton meeting comes round and sets the ball rolling on this coast for another season.

Alf. Neale has kept Crown Head and Karamu in steady work, and they should be in capital fettle for the opening of the next season. This trainer deserves a bit of luck, as he is one of the most careful at the game, and it is pleasing to know that both his charges give promise of showing good form later on. M. Gardner took Tiora to Napier, but the St. Clements mare let her backers down on Saturday at the Park, as she failed to run into a place though heavily backed. Leonta is nicely weighted in the Winter Hurdles at Trentham, but it may be that he will want a race over the small sticks before being at his best. Still, with Kew in the same stable, Leonta should be well schooled. Kew is in the same race at 10.8, and should run well, though the journey is probably a bit far for him. Aruake has 9.7, at which he ought to have

a good chance, but he will most likely be sent for the steeplechase instead, in which he has 9.12.

Tilley has both Miacara and Ardent engaged in the Winter Cup. The former has not got back to form yet, but may be all right by the time she is asked to race at Riccarton.