STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1932, Page 14

STABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

BEACON FIRE WELL. The Lackham three-year-old Beacon Fire, who leaves for Ellerslie on Monday, has been pleasing in his tasks at Woodville, says our correspondent, and has never looked in better condition than he does at present. Beacon Fire will be ridden in his engagements by B. H. Morris.

MAY GET SOME MONEY. A. E. Xeale intends bringing All Humbug and Fairway to the Northern meeting, where they can be ticked off to notch some stake money (says a Southern writer). The improvement shown in their daily tasks has claimed the attention of track watchers, and if they do not pay their way it will not be for want of condition. Fairway is reckoned in some quarters to have fair prospects in the Carbine Plate contest. - NOT FOR ELLERSLIE. W. D. Young decided not to continue the engagement of Princess Elizabeth in the Great Northern Steeplechase. His intention is to nominate her for the 'chasing events at Hastings and Napier Park. Should her display prove satisfactory she may bo a competitor at the winter meeting of the Wellington Racing Club, and then she will be given a let-up, as her ownertrainer does not intend to tax her further this season. She is only a six-year-old and there is evidence that with age she may develop into something above the average as a 'chaser. DOING A SOUND PREPARATION. Few horees at Ellerelie are thriving better than Gay Cockade, and the Depredation gelding looks in great heart; in fact, he has never been more solid than at piesent. W. J. Hawkins is giving this horse a sound preparation a.nd is very confident that he will run a great race in the Cornwall Handicap. Gay Cockade revels in soft going, for it' was under tlioso conditions that ho and Standfast dead-heated for second place behind Seatown in the sainn event at Ellerslie twelve months ago. This horse usually races well on the local course and at his last start finished second to King's Archer in the President's Handicap, one mile and a quarter. Awaken being third. If he runs up to that form in the Cornwall Handicap he will be very liard to beat.