HAWKE’S BAY NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1473, 18 July 1918, Page 14

HAWKE’S BAY NOTES.

|From Our Correspondent.)

Dry Up Resumes Work—Local Representatives Fare Well at Trentham —A Handsome Two-year-old Colt— Multiply and Eligible Benefiting From Sipell—Lord Laddo Placed on Easy List. NAPIER, Monday. V. H. Collelo has goi in hand a half-brother by Sir Laddo to Sir Fisher. When his time arrives to take part in the business he will run in the interests of Mr. E. J. White, of Porangahau. Dry Up (Demosthenes— Drought) is again in work at Napier Park. This rising three-year-old half-brother to Wishful is an exceedingly nice, even stamp of a horse, who on looks should assuredly pay his way. Matatane is the -name that has been chosen for the two-year-old half-sister to Sauci and Parisian Diamond, by Merry Moment. She is the property of Mr. H. M. Campbell, and is receiving her education at the hands of Trainer W. Stone, at Hastings. Local backers, who came at the district horses competing at Trentham on Wednesday, got out of the wood, and as a result showed a slight profit, for had a ticket been purchased on each equine trained in the “Bay” a profit of about three pounds would have figured on the balance-sheet. Barcarolle, Mulatto and Sheila are in the private sale list. The reported sale of Impediment to Mr. W. R. Kemball, of the W'airarapa, for 1300 guineas, was all so much hot air, for the well-performed daughter of Demosthenes and Kautuku is still requiring a buyer. The rising two-year-old son of Demosthenes and Hard Wood, who is the property of Mr. C. E. Twist, of Greenmeadows, is growing into a beautifully-moulded colt, and his movements are indicative of speed of a high grade. His dam is a daughter of Birkenhead and Dryad, who claims half-sisterhood to Reliance and other good bygone turf performers. Bon Reve and Sir Agnes, who scored at Trentham on Saturday, were sent through from Wellington as the right things to be on, and consequently backers profited accordingly. Multiply and Eligible are improving with the holiday that is being their portion. At present the pair are enjoying their fling on their owner’s (Mr. T. E. Whelch) station at Wanstead.

Mr. W. H. Gaisford, of Oringi, the well-known owner, has been passed as fit, and he shortly leaves for camp. Mr. Gaisford is vice-president of the Waipukurau Jockey Club, who also have another representative in Mr. P. E. Wall, a steward of the club, in camp.

The locally-owned St. Elmn occupied the same position in the July Steeplechase at Trentham on Saturday as he had filled last season in the same event, when he acted as runner-up to Master Strowan. Lord Laddo, the full-brother to Nobleman, who had been demonstrating that he could fence fast and clever in his schooling exercises over the obstacles., has gone amiss, and has been turned out to recuperate. His owner, Mr. Keith White, of Porangahau, has been drawn in the ballot.