HAWKE’S BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1565, 22 April 1920, Page 11

HAWKE’S BAY.

Vacuum to Qualify as a Hunter—.Waipukurau .J.C.’s. Improvements—- ■ Manhattan’s' Pleasing Track Work —-Europa Displays Promise Over Hurdles. • NAPIER, Monday. Vacuum is to be qualified with the Hawke’s Bay Hounds. That capable horseman, Mr. Bruce McKay, intends to get him going for his owner, Mr. J. Bowen, and later on he will be seen out in Hunt Club events. Mr. ' Bowen has also recently acquired Nicomar, and as the chestnut son of Spalpeen’has had only one race during the past two years, his new proprietor should make more than expenses out of him, for in the interim he has been well looked after and fed as if he were going to race the day after to-morrow. The Waipukurau Jockey Club is going in for a big scheme of improvements in connection with their property, and already plans have been obtained for the building of a new grandstand, stewards’ stand, weighing and jockeys’ room, secretary’s office, and tot’alisator house. The committee of the club meet tomorrow morning on the course at Waipukurau to get the lay out of the scheme, and it is anticipated that in the very near future a start will be made with the erection of the above buildings. Judging from the size and equipments of the building plan, the country club is just in to spend a bunch of money. Messrs. T. H. Lowry and F. Armstrong leave Auckland on May 2 for England, via Vancouver. The former . sportsman intends to remain in the Old Land for about 18 months. The race that Manhattan had at Waipukurau on Easter Monday has sharpened him up considerably, and the Maniapoto—Waipuratu gelding, so i his owner informed me last week, is

going great guns in his work on the training track at Lake Station. Demosthenes hung another scalp on his belt by the pricb brought by his son out of Tete-a-Tete at the Sydney yearling sales. Up against the best that brains and money could buy for the Commonwealth, our “Bay” stallion just handed them the knock-out, and now some of those wise “Alick’s” that decried Demosthenes when he arrived in the district are feeling pretty cheap, if they are not, then they have got extra short memories. Mr. T. H. Lowry, breeder of the 1700guinea top-of-the-market yearling, as regards selling equines of his own breeding has established just something like a record, for Estland, Finmark, Fingon, Right and Left, Kipling, . and others disposed of are striking examples of how fortunate he has been in disposing of stock bred on his breeding quarters at Okawa. Tete-a-tete, who was also first ushered into existence at Okawa, is a half sister by Royal Fusilier to Bobrikoff, and there is not the slight-

est doubt that the infusion of the forcible dominant strains possessed by the baby son of Tete-a-tete will certainly make good when his time arrives to get going at the game in earnest. Europa,- the half sister by King Mark to Audax, one of V ; H. Collelo’s pupils, is making good in her exercises over the battens on the preparing grounds at Hastings. Europa is the property of Mr. F. Ormond, who in time to come will have a finished performer representing him at the lepping business. It is improbable that any of the members of Mrs. M. A. Perry’s team will be seen out in action until the autumn meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club, next week. All of the string are in good health, and with a bit of good fortune on their side should hold their own end up at Hastings this month. Bright Night and All Aboard, who silenced those opposed to them at the Australian Jockey Club’s autumn fixture at Randwick in the Rous and Final Handicaps respectively, both made their first appearance on this sphere at Mr. E. J. Watt’s breeding quarters at Longlands, Hastings. Bright Night is bv Wolawa —La Notte, and Mrs. M. A. Perry, of Otatara, has a coming two-year-old full brother to him, Donum by name, in work under the direction of Trainer T. F. Quinlivan. All Aboard (All Black — Float) is a full brother to Dribble, while he also has a relative in work here, for Trainer K. Quinlivan is handling a coming two-year-old colt by Wolawa — Float, who is showing the possession of every characteristic that illustrates the perfection of the juvenile thoroughbred. Owners were in a generous mood last Friday night, for they made a splendid response to the invitation of the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club in connection with the nominations for the club’s autumn meeting, which promises to be a most successful one.