NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 104, 29 October 1925, Page 12

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BY "VEDETTE")

Xominations for the Ashhurst and Levin Meetings .close to-morrow night.

, The famous Melbourne Cup carnival opens at Flemington on Saturday, "when the V.X.C. Derby, Maribyrnong Plate, Melbourne Stakes, and Cantala Strikes -\vill be decided. The Melbourne Cup is to bo run on Tuesday. Most interest in the Derby will be centred in Manfred, ,who is to bo ridden by F. Jennings, the stublo boy who rides him in his work. II is thought that ho will manage Manfred better at the barrier, for the colt ■alufays goes, kindly fgr.him. . As custo,liiaYy, a big field will contest the Melbourne Cup, <t race in which the winuev must escape all bad luck. ,

According to the accounts of the race, ■ Whjttiei* won the Gaulfield Cup easily, ■\vitli, 0. Pike riding V masterly race. Whittier, drawn No. ,11 at the barrier, jumped off, from No.: 13, receiving an uninterrupted run round the first turn. PikoWas fined £10 for"'.changing his post positibnV but one'w.ritcr remarked that the advantage gained] was worth many times that amount. There are jockeys in !Now<<Zealand who.i'omoccasions emulate /Pike's'itactics ; witli''po>;:littlo success, and get away 1 with it. '■■•■• B. Bosen has had his jockey's license \vith drawn by the Licensing Committee of the Racing Conference 1. Prior ■to his going wrong, .Victorian critics were being hard put to it to explain Heroic's in-and-out running."

ilampion, winner of the Breeders' Plate, and Kanooka, who scored in the Gimcrack Stakes, are due to run in the Maribymong Plate. Rampion is said to bo aa well grown as many foui-year-tlds.

Amongst the thoroughbred horses on 'the Tekoa is the two-year-old colt Royal ■Picture, purchased on behalf of Mr. J. •A. Taylor, of Wellington. Royal Pic;lmro, it is understood, has been raced .in England, but no details concerning ■jhim arc available at presonfc. - I Economist, who finished a close third to Ayr-barn and Finora at liangiora on Monday, was having his first race for a long time. According to all accounts, ]ie was big in condition, and did well ;to finish so-close up under the circumstances. He. ifi a useful galloper when at bis best.

Gaillard was slow away in. his race -at WtWeriey on Monday, but came through, at the turn and gained third place. Usually Gaillard races best out in front,.so this would appear not a bad effort. „, , .;... ■ . . .

. A Son them writer suggests thatEnare >-ill be much, improved by -his race at Kangiora. . ,''.', ■ It is stated-that His Majesty's sue-. xess at Kangiora was due to C. Emer:&on's ability in the saddle rather than •special merit of the'Kilbroney gelding. No fewer than 24 horses wonfc South by last night's ferry steamer in readiness for their engagements at Eiccarton. The following were the- trainers land, their horses: TP. Tilley (Shining Armour, Mandane, Inferno, Limited), ;P. E. Hazleman (Vertigern,; Polonaise, iLicihius, Agitato), E. Penman (Kalakaua, Roues), T. Lloyd (Sunart, Mireusonta), C'larinda, Clandhn), J. H. Jcfferd' (Rapine; Star Stranger, Gauntlet, Joy King, Decoy Bird, Mimetic), W. J. Donovan (Runnyjncde, Tiega), and J. M'LaughHn';_(Ta.nadeea, r The*-Tanfc). Watching"tlioroughßrcdX: Horses; .being loaded into a. "Steamer one cannot:help being struck by the, primitive'methods and the danger to which valuable horses arc exposed. One or two of last night's consignment by tho ferry steamer will arrive rather the worso for wear. In "(ho "first place,, horses'. dislike*",'.having to step up into ■ a box, and, if a small graded board was supplied there would bo leas trouble. Tho greatest danger on the ferry' wharf,; however, r is, the slippery surface, and ■ more than-,one horse last night risked serious injury when being led into the box. The graded way, with plenty of cross-bat-tens, would - obviate -■ -both— of -these troubles of trainers.

F. Waddell will take S. Waddell's tfiam South to-morrow night. Llandudno has been sent home, but Beacon j Light, Father O'Flynri, Shirley; Kilmoyler, and Dazzling Light will probably be joined by Gold Light to-mor-row. , It is understood the -bonny chestnut mare has made a" good recovery, and that she will be seen out at Ric-! carton. ';""". ' ' "

Advices from Woodville are to the effect that Nigger Minstrel's immediate prospects arc not bright.. The .break-, down is, i£ anything, it is stated, wprs? than the first case, and being .-sucE a' gross and heavy topped horsed ¥." Davis has an uncnviablo task to get him ready again. There is one thing to-be .said, Niejer Minstrel showed at Wangunui that his .very superior class was enough to win races over-a. short course even if only' half-trained. .

The scratching of Muraahi for the New Zealand Cup and 11. Gokluincb'a inability to leave the Ellorslio Meeting tins given M. M'Carleti the rido on Tanadces in the New Zealand Cup.

Mr. A. Cambridge is ;i. whole-heart-od supporter of r.ieing in tho fcJonth. He owned thrco of the five acceptors in the Waikaka. Handicap .at. Gore, yesterday, and they finished in the places—Monoxide; Kilf anc, and Happy Days.

Birltenclla, by those who had seen him race through the winter, was looked on as a racing certainty for Ihc Waikato Hunt Cup. It canio as ;i, surprise "to find him "only fourth favourite, and.at a lucrative price. Delysian, who has been regarded as rather a joke as a racehorse in the North almost paid a sensational winning dividend at To Eapa on Monday. As it was, he returned nearly fifty pounds for second. According to Auckland newspaper reports, Santa Fe won the first di-

visiou of the Barclowie Hack Handicap, yet the judge- placed him fourth. It is also stated that J^ing Lv .appeared to beat Master O'Korke in the Instow Handicap, but the writers are not so defiuitc on this point. Master O'Borko was placed first and King Lv second by,the judge. . .