NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS

RACING FIXTURES.

December 4—Methven R.C. December 4—Taumarunui R.C. December 8, 9—Woodville District J.C. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "H.S."—Wellington -490. "" General entries for the Auckland Cup Meeting and forfeits for the Derby, Royal Stakes, and Great Northern Foal Stakes are due to-night at 5 o'clock. Nominations for the Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting and forfeits for the Palmerston North Stakes close tonight at 9 o'clock. Acceptances for the first day at Woodville are due to-night at 9 o'clock. Nominations for the Wairarapa Racing Club's Meeting are due on Friday next. The Taumarunui Meeting will be held to-morrow, and although some horses have as many as four engagements during the day—for instance, Te Koroke —the racing should be fairly interesting. Spoony should'have plenty of support in the Taumarunui Cup, for he was second to Ruapapa at Takapuna in a very much better class field. Te Koroke, for whom W. H. Jones has been retained, looks likely to start in the Rangaroa Flying Handicap. He should find Namutere hard to dispose of. If Abbess starts in the Trial Plate it will take something extra good to bring about her defeat. Small fields wiU be the rule at the Methven Meeting to-morrow. Horses who appear well placed are John Bradbury, Cqch-y-bondhu, Master Clarence, Gold Mint, and Economist. P. Burgess, the Wairarapa apprentice, had a narrow escape from serious injury at Feilding on Thursday. He had just mounted the two-year-old Insulation in the birdcage when the juvenile reared and fell right over on his back. Burgess was just grazed on the shoulder as the horse crashed to the ground. A few more inches and he would have been right underneath. Although shaken, the lad got up and rode the gelding in the race. A recent addition to 6. New's stable at Awapuni is a two-year-old colt by Gasbag from Marfaux, by Martian from Faux Pas, by Stepniak. The youngster is to be added to the list before being put into work. . Eka, the winner of the Novice Stakes at Feilding on Thursday, is a smart galloper, capable of. better things. She is a three-year-old filly by Acre from Park Tide, by Sylvia Park from Ebb Tide. .Eka is the first living progeny of the dam since 1919, and as Park Tide missed in the year prior to Eka's foaling those who believe in the year's rest theory should bank largely on Eka. Tip Tree was one of the unlucky horses racing at Feilding, and he should be worth remembering for hack races at the holiday meetings in Taranaki. Resinous appears to be a natural stayer, and bustling him along over purely sprint courses has not favoured him. At Feilding he was tried over a mile and 110 yards, and with time to get on his feet he ran a very creditable race. The first time Bennanee races on a dry track in similar company to that he met at Feilding he should take all kinds of beating. He ran a great race on the first day at Feilding, and his second day failure can be excused, for he was cut right back to last at the end of two furlongs. Probably a stronger horseman than J. Barry would suit him better. Bennanee now carries the colours of Mr. J. A. Macfarlane, who had the ill-luck to lose Landbird at Riccarton last August. It is said that Te Monanui will be ridden in the Auckland Cup by L. G. Morris. The New Plymouth gelding will lose nothing on the score of horsemanship. Girribillie has been sold and goes to Australia. He is smart over short courses. Oriflamb is showing considerable promise as a jumper, according to the Southern critics, and when schooled with Sayonara early this week he gave quite a good display. The owner of Diogenea states:—"The slight .mishap to my colt the day before the Feilding Cup was run was due to an inadvertence during the temporary unavoidable absence of his trainer, G. New', from the tracks. The colt was galloped on the sand that morning, hut unfortunately his boots were not removed, and the sand worked in and inflamed one of his forelegs. The trainer was naturally anxious about his charge, but working on the colt all night succeeded in getting the leg to normal. Otherwise the horse was as sound as a bell, as his running in the Cup demonstrated." Not a great deal has been seen of Archery's stock in New Zealand, but the very few are promising. In True Blood he has a three-year-old who might reach the highest class. He is a solid CH-.-i_.er, with plenty of courage. T3e Wouthern two-year-old, Jericho, is by Archery, and he, too, shows an abundance of promise. Another useful two-year-old, Tripaway, from Killiney, has just resumed work after recovering from a kick received at the Oamaru Meeting. Archery is by Tracery, the sire of that i_ood horse Pantheon, and it will not be surprising to find that Mr. J. J. Leahy got a bargain when he purchased Arelicry at the Elderslie dispersal sale for 4SOO' guineas. Certainly it looks as if the lioi.se is Australia's gain and Nfw Zealand's loss. * Pink Note and Pink Terrace have resumed work again after a short spell. It- is noticed that quite a number of Canterbury-trained horses, are being mentioned as possible visitors to Awapuni at Christmas time. In addition to Rapier, Nincompoop, Precious, Master Clarence, and Assurance are the suggested travellers to the North. Centrepiece and Front Rank will probably be raced, at Dunedin during the holidays. Sir George Clifford will thus be without a representative at Ellerslie. Eulalie, Agrion, Footfall, Paperchase, and Haze are the probables from Canterbury for the Auckland Summer Meeting. All named have been doing excellent work at Riccarton the reverse way.

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