WANGANUI.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1493, 5 December 1918, Page 11

WANGANUI.

Client to Start in the Manawatu Cup — F. Tilley’s Team for Manawatu Meeting—Feilding J.C.’s Meeting —Golden Bubbles to Make His Debut at Awapuni— Vance in Steady Work —H. Rayner’s Pair for Feilding. WANGANUI, Monday. Client has been withdrawn from the Auckland Cup, but the son of Elevation claims an engagement in the Manawatu Cup, to be run on Boxing Day. F. Tilley has evidently decided to take his team to Awapuni instead of going north. In addition to Client, F. Tilley has Acre, Moutoa Ivanova, Oratress, Moutoa Camp and Rude engaged at Awapuni. The two last-named have not yet been seen out this season, but they are reported to be doing good work, and they should be in capital fettle by Christmas. It is to be hoped the Feilding Club will be able to hold their meeting on the date (the 18th inst.) provisionally set down for the gathering, as any further postponement will probably militate against its success. There is every reason to believe that if held on the 18th the meeting will be a big success, since some splendid racing is assured, judging by the excellent acceptances received, and the horses engaged there could race on that date and have ample time to go on to Auckland if they are to race therei the following week. W. Rayner intends to give Golden Bubbles (the two-year-old colt by Absurd —Catchfly) his first run in public at the Manawatu meeting, where he is engaged in the Juvenile Handicap. This colt has been much

admired by many good judges, and if he turns out as good as he looks he should make a name for himself on the track. He is owned by Mr. G. W. Currie. Rayner also has Farce, Pennon, Zola and Zela engaged at Awapuni and they are all looking and going well on the track. The fact that the tracks continue in a more or less soft condition as a result of the wet weather we have been experiencing has been in Pennon’s favour, and the soreness which troubled her last season has not shown itself to any extent so far this season. She is galloping in good style, and should be at her best for the Feilding meeting, at which she is to contest the Stakes. Zola is looking particularly well, and he, too, finds the tracks more to his liking than they would be if on the hard side. He figures in the hurdles at Awapuni, in which he will have to meet a better class than he defeated so easily at Hawera, but he is likely to make things interesting for the best of them. J. Peachey is giving Undecided a steady preparation for the hurdles at Feilding, in which he has 9.9. He .is going along nicely, and appears to be very well. Hupana, in the same stable, has been galloping in an attractive style recently, and she ought to be hard to beat in the Flying at Feilding if she begins well. H. W. Johnston is keping Vance at steady work, and the daughter of Advance —Daisy Clipper is likely to show improvement when next seen out, which will probably be at Feilding. wher she figures in the Trial Plate. H. Rayner will probably take, both Carmel Arch and Starengo to Feilding. They are both looking in excellent fettle, and it should not be long before they placei a win or two to their credit. Gang Awa’ is amongst the entrants for the hurdles at Awapuni. He is not now an inmate of the Fordell stable.