NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1922, Page 11

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(11l "SIR I.ANCEI.OT.")

.The Victorian spring carnival opens at Caulfield to-morrow. The principal items on a six-event programme are the Debutante Stakes (for two-year-olds), Caulfield Stakes (nine furlongs, weight-for-age, in which Burythmic is engaged), Caulfield Guineas (a mile race for threo-year-olds, which may go to the New South Wales representative Cliffdale), and Toorak Handicap (a niilo race). Owners and trainers are given a final reminder that acceptances for the first day's handicap events at the Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting, arid forfeits for the Champion Plate,- close to-night at 9 o'clock. > Mermin made his first appearance as a four-year-old, and his second appearance in Australia, in the Ailsa Handicap, | six furlongs, at Mooneo Valley on 30th September. He was sent out equal favourite with another runner, but was one of the last to finish. The going ! was heavy, and the six furlongs took j lmin l9sec to run. Mermin was well I sold here to go to India, but on his form on the other side it would seem to .be only waste of more good money I sending him on. I By winning th» 2214 soys first prize | in the Craven Plate, Gloaming increased his total winnings to £31,811, and passed Carbine in the list, of Australasia's greatest stake earners. Eurythniic remains at the top with £34,066, and I then come Gloaming, £31,811; Carbine, £29,626; Cetigne, £27,206; Poitrel, £26,920. These are the only horses to have placed over £25,000 to their [ credit. ■ A paragraph in a southern paper recently stated that Northern Eose died. This should be Rose Shield, 22 years of age.. Northern Rose is a young mare, and foaled a big brown ■ colt on 10th insfc. to Boniforln, at Lower Hutt. The following are Northern Rose's foalis:— Filly, Miss De Val, by All Red; colt to Demosthenes—Lord Desmond; filly to Bohifonn, sold for 400gs in Auckland to Mr. Gibbins, since> dead; colt to Kilbroneyr—not named.-

Gloaming made his reappearance on the track at Trentham yesterday morning, and considering he had just had a four days' journey by boat, was particularly light-hearted and ; fresh. He did easy pacing work on the lead, and will not be required to do much work for a few jiays. Mr. J. B. Reid, the well-known owner and breeder, returned from a visit to the Old Country by the Ruahine, and went South last night.

Insurrection has been engaged in the principal handicap events at the Auckland spring and summer meetings.