V.R.C. AUTUMN MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 44, 21 February 1891, Page 3

V.R.C. AUTUMN MEETING.

The Victoria Racing Club Autumn Meeting commences at Flemington on Saturday next. One of the events of the day is the St. Leger, in which Gibraltar and The Admiral, the Sydney and Melbourne Derby winners, will meet for the first time, but the race of most local interest will be the Newmarket Handicap, for which 44 remain in after the forfeit on Thursday last. The mosb notable absentee is Cuirassier. I think the winner will come from Bungebah, Marvel, Greygown, Teksum, Too Soon, Merriment, or Winifred, and to pick one from the number my fancy is Bungebah.

"Asmodoeus" thus refers to the exAuckland owned horse Teksutn that he recently looked over at Dowling Forest :— "Teksum is to be seen keepinghisowncompany, and I am naturally much interested in the Musket horse after the contradictory reports in circulation concerning him. All notions of anything radically wrong are at once dispelled by his blooming, welltrained appearance, while as for his legs, there is not the semblapce of suspicion attached to them, being as clean and thejbints as truly shaped as the day he' was foaled. It would be no easy matter to find a horse of the same age.a 3 Teksum -whose legs are so thoroughly free from lilemish, and to all appearances Mr Martin Loughlin's four-figured purchase is not only perfectly sound, bub in splendid heart and condition, and ib is nob by any means unlikely that he will make, a bold bid for the Newmarket Handicap. He is as mellow as a ripe peach, and although a trifle jolly he bears evidence of having done plenty of the right sort of work, albeit Mr Wilson tells me he has abstained so far from putting a question to him. Teksum being one of my prime- fancies for the Newmarket Handicap, I am rather pleased to see him looking so uncommonly well, and filing tbe eye as a racehorse •of an exceptionally fine type."