SABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 57, 8 March 1934, Page 16

SABLE AND TRACK NOTES.

ENGAGED AT AWAPUNI. Master Brierly has beca nominated for the Awapuni Cup, to bo decided at the Manawatu autumn meetiug. Desert Star is engaged in the I'iinco of Wales and Tamatetc Handicaps. A LIKELY SORT. Pleasant Memory, a four-year-old maro by Day Comet from Retrospect, put lip a good performance in the Konsyth Hack Handicap at Motukarara on Saturday. After getting oil badly she showed a lot of speed to run into a good position nt the end of three furlongs, and she hold her place to the straight, where she faded out. On this form she may get some money before the end of tlio season. SILVOX AMISS. Silvox showed signs of lameness after his work at Riccarton on Saturday morning. The trouble is in a tendon, which gave way in tho spring, and ho will have to go out for another long epeli. It is bad luck for his connections that Silvox should havo gone wrong agaiu at this stage, when be appeared to be getting near to racing form again, and with Rebel Song also out of commission, LieutenantColonel Stafford has had bright autumn prospects dashed very suddenly. In the case of Rebel Song, it is not the old injury that lias caused his retirement, the trouble ou this occasion being sesamoiditia. It is probable that these two, who arc halfbrothers, will be spelled for six mouths o? more before they arc required to do any more work. TUNNELLER'S SUCCESS. A. H. Eastwood could have bad the ride on Tunneller in the Juvenile Stakes at Motukarara on Saturday, but accepted an engagement for Capital, who proved to bo the runner-up. Had Eastwood been aboard tho Chokebore Lodge representative it is certain that Tunneller would have paid a much smaller dividend. He carried only £0 10/ on tho win machine and nearly half of that was invested by his owner. Sir Charles Clifford has disposed of Tunneller to a patron of Mrs. J. Campbell's stable, and the youngster was taken to his new home yesterday. The price, 150gs, was fixed before lie won on Saturday, and at this figure he must bo considered a most favourable jjroposition.

RACING AT WOODVILLE. There are only two new names among the acceptors for the Dannevrike meeting at Woodville to-morrow. They aro Pistiller and Flammarion. Distiller, who claims an engagement in the Maiden Piute, is, as his name sugests, by Peach Brandy. He is a three-year-old brown gelding, and his maternal ancestry is given as unknown. He is owned by the Feilding trainer P. Holman, who ■ also has Royston carrying his colours now. Flammarion, the one no far unraced youngster in the Nursery Handicap, is a black gelding by Arausio from the Martian mare Lucinette, and he will carry the well-known jacket of his breeder Mr. F. Ormond. Lucinette is a daughter of the New Zealand Cup winner Lady Lucy, and the family is one that has produced such other notable performers as Antares (Auckland Cup), Fulmen (New Zealand Cup), Heorthen, Naos and Star Stranger. AUCKLAND RACING CLUB. Nominations for the autumn meeting of the Auckland Racing Club, and first forfeit® for the Great Northern Oaks, Champagne Stakes and St, Leger Stakes cloeo with the secretory, Mr. W. S. Spence, at 5 p.m. to-morrow.

MIA STELLA INJURED. Tho withdrawal of IMia Stella from the Frankton Hurdles to-day was due to him receiving an injury while racing at Pukekolio last Saturday. This horse has shown great form during the last few months, and lie will take some beating in any future hurdle races lie contests during the autumn. A GOOD JUDGE. When tho team of F. J). Jones was being placed aboard the ferry at Wellington in January, one of the wharf labourers, evidently "a racing fan, was curious about the identity of the horses. '"What s that one?" he asked. r .l he reply was Custodian. "And that one?" "Imperial Spear." "Oil, yes. And that one?"—" Shatter." "Oh, blast "im." The numerous punters who sent Shatter out second favourite for the Peninsula Cup at Motukarara on Saturday will cordially agree with that Wellington critic. Shatter brat only one horse home. His record for the season is now 2f> starts, no wins, five seconds, one third aiu! 10 times unplaced. His second in the C.J.C. Midsummer Handicap iand really good track form subsequently caused a lot ol backers who had tired of him to give him one more chance. CUP DISAPPOINTMENT. Argentic ran a very disappointing race in tlic Peninsula Cup on Saturday. He was slow finding his feet and seemed to bo crowded back in the first furlong, and from that stage never gave signs of getting near the leaders. The fast pace set by Metal Bird gave him little chance under the circumstances, and the aamo cause could bo assigned to Shatter's poor clisplay, lie had to ho hard riililcu iroiu the outset to keep a favourable position, but lost ground at the turn out of the straight and into tho back stretch. He, however, made a fast run up to near the leaders in tho straight three furlongs along the back, but retired again as soon as the tar turn had to be encountered. His form was certainly far below what he has shown on tho track for some time past, and his racing exploits must be disconcerting, not only to his connections, but to those followers who have been persuaded by his repeated fast gallop* not to desert hun. They will now feel convinced that although he may bo expensive to adhere to, he would appear to be a better proposition on the metropolitan tracks than on the country turning courses.