WAIRARAPA.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1482, 19 September 1918, Page 10

WAIRARAPA.

P. Daly’s Pair of Smart Juveniles — Form Up Going Along Nicely—Hydrus’ Disappointing Form—Mr. A. McDonald’s Promising Prospects in Weight-for-age Events. MASTERTON, Saturday. Stan. Reid will ride Mr. Kemball’s jumpers during the present season, and if a fencer is included in the team for Australia he will go across and do the riding. Sarbonite (Saracen —Waituru) was fancied by his connections for Dannevirke, and. better handled, he might have been closer up. Sarbonite is trained by C. H. Harris at Carterton. The two youngsters in P. Daly’s stable are shaping well, especially Hytinas, and they have been responsible for some smart sprints at Opaki lately. The stewards of the Masterton Racing Club on Saturday last decided to vote £2O to the Dr. Barnardo’s Home Fund. Gunner R. Cooper, who has been on active service for about three years, is expected to return home shortly. Before enlisting this gentleman was a well-known Wairarapa owner and a steward of the Masterton Racing Club. Penury Rose was started twice at Dannevirke, and ran third and fourth respectively. The locally-owned and trained gelding is very well just now, and should not be long in landing another stake for R. Knox. Although Form Up was allowed to drop out of his Marton and Dannevirke engagements there is nothing wrong with him, and he is going on the right way at Tauherenikau.

The lad W. McEwen, who rode Multaine when she won at Dannevirke, is now apprenticed to W. Hawthorne at Masterton. He was having his first ride for the stable when his mount was successful.

Now that the tracks at Opaki are drying up there will be a busy time in store for local trainers. A very large number of horses are at present in work at Opaki, including a dozen two-year-olds. It is hard to account for the poor showing of Hydrus in his recent outings. He is galloping well on the track, and trainer Jamieson has him looking very well, but when the colours are up the son of Hymettus and Belama does not appear to put the same dash into his galloping as he does when working at Opaki. Private Alex. Watson, who was a well-known local horseman before going on active service, was at latest advices in Egypt, and is a member of the camel corps. Watson says camel riding is hardly as comfortable as race riding, but says he would not have missed his experiences for anything. Fisher was sent through to Masterton from Dannevirke as unbeatable, but his backers did not collect, as he failed to draw the weight. One well-known Wairarapa trainer who was present at the meeting invested his winnings for the day on the exAucklander.

F. Corlett, the local lightweight, is riding well again this season, and scored his first win for the new racing year on Penury Rose at Marton.

A promising career is predicted for this lad, as he is a very energetic and obliging boy when riding exercise at Opaki.

H. Eva, the Tauherenikau trainer, had three horses accepted for at Dannevirke (Cyresian, Paparess and Livland), but the only one to face the starter was Paparess in the Hack Hurdles.

Mr. A. McDonald was unlucky last season in not winning a classic race with Torfreda, as the full sister to Hymestra was second in the Champagne Stakes at Riccarton and also in the Sires’ Produce Stakes at Palmerston North. However, there seems a very good chance of the Masterton sportsman taking a prominent part in weight-for-age events this season. Torfreda is looking particularly well just now, and her full brother, Hyades, is a promising two-year-old. Then there is Affectation (Kilbroney — Simper), a colt which promises to turn out a rare galloper. The latter conducted himself in a quiet manner when taken to Marton for educational purposes, and his efforts at Opaki have shown that he knows how to gallop. The stewards of the Masterton Racing Club for two or three years after the carrying of no license generously supplied liquor to favoured patrons at its race meetings. Somehow or other the privilege was abused, and they decided to discontinue it. “Are we going to have any liquor this year?” asked the president (Mr. C. F. Vallance) at a meeting of the stewards on Saturday last. “No!” came from most of those present at the meeting, and this definitely settled the question.