TOPICS OF THE TURF

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 69, 23 April 1929, Page 3

TOPICS OF THE TURF

(By "The Squire.")

JOTTINGS DAY BY DAY.

There t\i!l be not eleetion required in connection witli delegates from the Hawke's Bay countiy eluhs to tlie Hawke's Bay District Committee, as oue of tlie delegates nominated lias witlulraw.-i. Seven liad been nominated and tlie required nuinber was six. Trainer O. Cox did not liave tbe best of luck at the late meeting at Hastiugs, as Reremoana, Flving Binge and Valpre, wlio are nnder liis tuition, each seenred a seeond bertli. Their stake winnings amonnted to £70. What -\vitli noniir.ations, aeceptanees. riding fees, ovners' tax, transport and aecommodation eharges to eome ont of tlie t-heque it looks as if eonsiderahle scarcli would be required to locate a credit balanee over the trip. Comical conelusively proved last week tliat he is no haek linmber, as tlie old gclding — he jnstiiies tlie appellation, as he was ioalerl in 191(5 — galloped in a cenvincing fashion, and also looked partieularly well. tIf lcpping events are his mission in tlie liear fntnre he will prove a forniidahle antagonist in tliat branch of the game. Duriiig the last four seasons Reremoana lias been a competitor in tbe J. I). Ormond Memorial Gold Cnp, witli tlie resnlt tliat lie lias gained first, seeond and tliird ]ilacings. liis otlier effort liaving a miss reeoided again.st it. Merry Melody, tlie two-year-old fnllhrother to 5Ieriy Mint, was ineluded I in the runners in tlie Juvenile Handi- j eap at Hastings on Saturday. He is i a good lonker, with a good style of moving. He was running in the inter- \ est.s of his hreeder, 5Ir F. llall, of Gishcrne, heing onc of tlie pnpils under the tuition of AY. Griffith. * =:= ^ Gaze, wlio is going along all sereno in his oxoreises at Takapau, lias been nrminated for Great Northern SteepleC'hase, Great Northern llurdles and AYinter S1 cepleehnse. Other loeall.v-owned eqnines wlio have been pagerl in the Great Northern llurdles are: Braeman. Elicit, Maunga and Comical, Ihe same quartette also figuring in tlie Great Northern Steepleeliase, while Comieal. Maunga and Brarman are in tho Winter Steeplechase. * -r * ' In the leading flat event at the meeting, tbe, Cornwall ITandieap, tlie Bay eandidates are Comical, Tbe Hawk and White Fang. Arastar is tlie eognomen tliat has been given to the coming two-year-old I son of Arausio and Penelophon tliat was purohasod at tlie j'earling saies at Trentham in January bv Mr 1Y. H. Dyer for 500 guineas. The youngster was hred at Karamu by Mr J. D. Ormond. * * * The new addition to YL- H. Hassall's possessions, whieh has arrived at Auckland from England, was sired by an an English Derbv winnor in Phaiaris, wlio of late lias been siring a number of winners in the Old Country. ❖ -fi % Tlie mislmp tliat hefell Brown Sugar wheti on tlie road 'from Masterton to Hastings, will have tho effect of keeping lier ont of action for some time to eome. Another of P. Smith's pnpils is also on the_ retired list, in Topere, vho knocked himself a sliort time, back. '•* 'i' Onc of his patrons, Mr "\Y. G. Fleming, of anstead, who has San Quex in training under Rmitli, was a purcliaser at the salc of tlie late Taranaki Te Ua's horses on Saturdav, wlien lie gave 20 guineas for a yearfing filly by Lord Quex out of a mare by Sarto. % V jJ; Tea Miss (Tea Tray — INlis.s Girons), who has not heen lieard of for some time, managed to seeui-e seeond bertli in the Flying ITandieap at tlie Yloorelield (Gydney) meeting on Saturday. The fillv was hred at Otatara by Mrs JM. A. Perry, for whom slie won three raees in tlie Dominion last season. ❖ y Silver Paper left Hastings yosterday morning for Trentham, cn route to the South Island. His sueeess in tlie J. I). Ormond Memorial Gold Cnp makes his Roventh win for the season, in addition to wliich he lias gained a couple of seeond placings. * -t * As a two-year-old, out of five attacks upon stake money, he Avas once returnod a winner and on a eouple of occasions seenred seeond positions. % ❖ T. .1. Daly, who lias for a lengthy period been training several members of 51r W. R. Kemhall's team on tlie Opaki course, is slioity removing to Trentham with liis pnpils, as Mr lveiuball is now a resident of Wellington. He, lilce niany other owners, likes to see liis horses in their rehearsals. Another cause of the shift is in consequence of tlie number of two-year-old s tliat he has at present under his tuition. * ^ He informed me at Hastings tliat iie lias eiglit juveniles studying under bimand tliat Trentham is moresuitahle fcr them than Masterton, as Tio lias some eonsiderahle distance to travel with them from his stahles to the Opaki tracks. i jt * $ Valkon and Liandudno. who finished tliat wav in tlie iir.st and tliird plaees in the Storev Memorial Cnp, last season, wero not nominated for the race tliis session, but Corinax, who gained seeond position. has heen liandicapped for tlie event. He lias been given 8st. lDlb., tliat poundage being 20 pounds in execss of what lie had on his back last April.