NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1924, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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The owners of several National candidates took the opportunity of giving their charges a. race at the South Canterbury Hunt Club's meeting on Saturday last. Adjutor, winner of the Hadlow Hack Hurdles, had very little previous form to recommend him, al- . though he was third to Mataiua and Le Forte in the Greenfield Hurdle Handicap on the concluding day of the Duuedin Winter Meeting. He is owned by Mi. -C. Hazlett, and is a stable mate of Ravenna, (Mr. L. C. Hazlett's) in E. J. Ellis's stable. Adjutor is not iri the Studholme Hack Hurdles at Waimate •on Thursday, but the other jilace getters (Agiiola and Pomposo) arc. The. class at Waimate is better, including as 'it does two •National.candidates in Likelihood and Mandrake.

Although 'fioyal .Fame liad the minimum weight in the ' National Hurdles, he was not accepted for. Peter Amans is also missing from the list, which leaves' C. W. Coleman without a representative in the race.

Three National Steeplechase' ■ candidates in Tigerland, Palencia, and Master Petei- contested the open steeplechase event at the' South Canterbury Meeting on Saturday, and the two .firstnamed filled the minor places behind Paul Pry. The latter was not engaged in the big cross country- event at. Riccartbn, but will no doubt be found contesting some of . the minor events. - He was engaged in the Hack • Steeplechase at ■ Trentham with the .minimnm weight, but was. not brought up. He is in the "Wainiato Steeplechase Handicap with 9.12, and is liable to be rehandicapped. Paul Pry raced at Eiccarton last August, being twice placed in hack hurdle events. His only previous win was in the Wai-iti . Steeplechase Handicap at the South. • Canterbury Meeting in. May.' He is ,a. North Island bred performer by St. Paul—a great little performer'on the flafcj-froin Couriere, by Cuirassi&r—Miss Stead, a hill sister'to Halberdier^''winner'of the New -Zealand Cup. Miss Advance (bj Advance) . was about the best of the progeny of Couriere.' The Auckland contingent have- only won the Winter Cup on one occasion, with Bedford in 1918. Excepting Tinokaha, who is also in .the Hu'vdles, the only northern representative in the mile race next 'month is Broadwood (General Latonr—Gilmar), owned and trained by ■K. Heaton. • Broadwood certainly has not shown much form during the prosent term1 to win a race like the Winter Cup. In fact the only occasion that he ha-s ben placed 'gut'of eleven .starts was when he finished third in a seven furlongs race at'Takapuna. Probably because he- was not seen out at Trentham Duo was considered an unlikely starter at. Riccarton. However, his name appears amonn- the- acceptors for the Winter Cup, in which he 'is.-top. weight, with Arch Salute. Duo raced three times at Hastings i last month, but on no occasion did-he show form good enough to' suggest that ho could wm the Winter Cup with the top weight. . ■' ' . ■••,.- ■ .Five Winter Oup ' candidates contested the Claremont Welter Handicap ' run over the same distance as. the Riccarton race, at the South Canterbury Mmg-.ra Saturday.. Red Wink and Los Ambus,-who carried 111b and 121b" more than their Winter Cup weight did the- best of- them. The- other: Gup 'candidates to compete were -Guncase Happy Warrior, and. Mountain Lion,Jjaat winter Carmine won at South Canterbury and . ran third in the. Winter Cup. Red Wink is probably' better class. She won over the distance at Riccarton last August, and, it will be remembered, took part in a slashing finish in the Thompson Handicap. Red Wink, is a consistent performer, 'and must take beating with 9 13 -Omahu was taken to the South Canterbury Meetmg last winter, and scored m the principal event from Manawapango and others. He was not in Saturday s^race,.. nor is he in the bi X race at Riccarton, .in which he had '<« 'it J? owner P^ers his chance in -the Hurdle race with 10.9. Last August he failed; m : the Grand National Steeplechase withai.s, but -was successful m the Lincoln Steeplechase in his .only other start ■ ' . Clontari has filled second plage in the Levels Hack Handicap at : South Canterbury two. year. ,ih success"on Last winter he-was beaten by Agnola, who was among the place getters in the hurdle race on , Saturday last. Knocldyn who scored on Saturday, is j.one of the useful Solferino tribe and j must be nearly out of the hack'clai, ;as she .has won five times this season Belle Cla-ir), and is full sister to Jonquil/ and half sister to Pahaka (by Rokeby who raced in Sydney u^oyj, •. Mr.- V 7, O. Rutherford, . who used to race Tornado, Erin^o-Bfa^h, and other horses in the old dav*T won a ™, at tht. S°utli Canterbury Hunt Clubs Meeting, on Saturday with the peculiarly named Camel Amble, by Sol* ermo-Tango Camel Amble, who was placed in a hurdle race on. the West Coast, should be heard of again 'in hunters' events at Riccarton': ,