NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 88, 13 April 1923, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BT " SIR LANCELOT.")

Satisfactory fields are engaged .in all the handicap events on the second day. .• The distance of the - Second: Highweight, Handicap is. two furlongs furtherthan on the opening day. The thiee place?' getters have been raised; 141b, 71b, and 31b respectively, whilst the also-started, division have each been dropped a couple of pounds. ' : ~, ■''''. The Hutt Handicap is run over the same distance aa the Thompson Handicap, but does not include any of the. place-getters in the bi^ mile race on. the opening day. Joy Bade, the Hallway, Handicap winner, is in, also Zouav©, who was prominent in the St. Leger for about a mile. The latter won on the second' day at. Tauherenikau. ' ■ The Muritai Handicap is also run over a mile course. The lot down to run include Urgency, a , place-getter in. the High-weight Handicap on the previous day, and Lady Ben, one of the deadheaters in the Silverstream Handicap, run over the same distance. Winning Hit and Bone'tter are new horses engaged in the Autumn Handicap. Cupidon, who was running on at the finish of the Thompson Handicap, has been raised 31b, and meets' Gold Light on a pound better terms. Boadicea and Quest are amongst others that may be suited by the longer journey. The C.J.C. Champagne Stakes winner, Owlscombe, is in the Pacific Handir cap field. The distance is a furlong longer than the Plunket Nursery. Parody has gone up 31b, while the other place-getters, Bugle Note and Last Crust, have been dropped 21b and 51b respectively. The previous records of the race are in favour of three-year-olds in the Trentham Gold Cup. Eapine is the only horse .of that age engaged. The distance of the Suburban Handicap, six furlongs, would be more suitable to Solfanello and Boyal Blood than the longer journey in the Thompson Handicap. Mireusonta allows Lucius 41b for the beating on the opening day. In the final event, the Belmont Handicap, backers have a field of twentyone to pick from. They include Alabama, who was prominent for about five furlongs in the North Island Challenge Stakes. The rider of Lady Fingers will probably again claim the apprentice allowance, also Morrison, who will have the mount on Kahikatea.