HAWKE’S BAY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1576, 8 July 1920, Page 12

HAWKE’S BAY.

Bagdad’s Parliamentary Handicap Engagement — Piro Piro Changes Hands—Nightie Under Orders For Australia—Majority of Mrs. M. A. Perry’s Horses Sold —Two-year-old Martian—Lichen filly Shows Great Promise.

NAPIER, Monday

Bagdad, who is engaged in the Parliamentary Handicap at Trentham next week, when he will have to carry four pounds more than was the case when he won a couple of years ago, is going on satisfactorily in his exercises at Napier Park. Mr. E. J. Watt arrived here last week on a short holiday tour of the Dominion.

Piro Piro has found a new owner, Mr. W. Slattery, who races Paraoa, having purchased the son of Merry Moment and Carnelian from Mr. H. M. Campbell. The gelding, who won the Ladies’ Necklace at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s winter meeting, left last week for his new location. Nightie, the younger full sister to Bright Night and Munus, is under orders to leave for Sydney as soon

as the transport difficulty becomes adjusted. When her time arrives, she will race in the interests of Mr. E. J. Watt. The filly is at present being wintered by Trainer F. Quinlivan, at Greenmeadows.

Trainer T. F. Quinlivan has been doing great business of late, for he has succeeded in disposing of nearly all the lots in the Perry Estate that were advertised for private sale. Demagogue and Hendra have been sold to a Gisborne sportsman, and the pair are now domiciled at Ken. Quinlivan’s establishment, at Hastings. Mr. H. R. Peacock, of Waipukurau, has bought Hepta, and the son of Demosthenes and Heavenly Twin is now under the tuition of F. Quinlivan, at Greenmeadows. Mr. Peacock is a steward of the Waipukurau Jockey Club, and in the past has had Palm Oil and Wamba representing him. He has got something more than fair to medium now to carry his racing uniform, for in the past Hepta has proved conclusively that he is possessed of pace and determination. Mr. H. H. Pharazyn, who has but lately returned to the Dominion, secured Lovematch, and the daughter of Martian and Lovelorn now occupies a box at W. Stone’s quarters, at Hastings. That mentor will in future have control of the little mare, who, I opine, will have her best period next season. There is not much of Lovematch, but it is all blown - in-the-bottle and true to name. Munus, the coming two-year-old full brother to Bright Night and Nightie, has been disposed of to Mr. Troutbeck, and this sportsman has, in conjunction with Mr. G. D. Beatson, secured a lease of Martindale Lodge, which some time back was purchased by Sid. Reid, who of late has been imparting education to Mr. Beatson’s team, and who is for the future going to occupy the position of private trainer to Mr. Bruce Joll, of Hawera. The only horses that Quinlivan now has on hand for disposal are Ennea and Formative. In the near future he is going to engage in the rest stunt for a bit, and anticipates shortly starting on a tour of the Dominion, and will top it off with a holiday jaunt in Australia. Mr. C. E. Twist has running on his property a couple of coming yearlings that present an attractive outlook. One is a half brother by Feramorz to Mosthenes, the other being a filly by the same sire from the Demosthenes mare Drowsy. I think that I am right in stating that Drowsy, who, by the way, is out of Snooze, is one of the first of the Demosthenes tribe to produce. The babies are being well looked after, having come through the cold weather period all serene, and if appearances are prophetic of ability, why, then, Mr. Twist will have something particularly good to represent him in the days that are to be. It was intended that Powder King should join J. Sullivan’s team, at Woodville, after the termination of the local meetings, but Mr. Twist has decided to put him through a course of studies on the Napier Park try-out himself. He is not half bad at the business either, for in days gone by he used to get Perceler and Pursefiller ready and fit for battle, and under his control won several events.

One of the sweetest movers among the babies that are being put through the kindergarten stage at Napier Park is the coming two-year-old filly by Martian — Lichen. She hits out well, makes no apparent effort in her essays, and can skip fast. She was purchased last November in Christchurch by Mr. D. McLeod, who still owns her, and at the figure she brought (475 guineas) looks as if it

will not be long ere she gives financial returns to work off the debit. Mosthenes is due to leave shortly for Trentham, and the son of Demosthenes and Dry Wood is such a determined gelding, and in addition has got pace of a high grade, that it may with confidence be expected that his trip to the convincing grounds of the Wellington Racing Club will prove productive of favourable results. Starter A. G. Wood, who has for some time past been suffering from an attack of muscular rheumatism, and who took a trip to Morere to have a course of mineral bath treatment for the trouble, arrived back in Napier last week, and gave ample indication that the sousing that he had had filled the bill as a curative agent, for he looked nimble and bright. He left for his home in Christchurch by mail train last Wednesday morning “a new man,” as he said. “Brusher,” as he has been called ever since he was a small kiddie serving his time as a jockey with the late J. Munn, has not of late enjoyed the best of health, and it is to be hoped that the tide has now taken a turn for the better in his case from the health point of consideration.