NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 33, 9 February 1927, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BY "VEDETTE.")

RACING FIXTURES.

Tebrafry. 10, -12—Taranaki J.C. February 10, 12—JJunediii J.C. rebruary 10, 12—Poverty Bay Turf Club, Tebriiary 12, 14—Rotorua R.C. February 16—CUfden B.C. Tebruary 17—^Tologa Bay J.C. February 17, 19—Wanganul JX. Tobruary 19—Canterbury J.C. February 23, 24—Gore R.C. February 23, 24, 26—Nelson J.C. February 24—Walapu R.C. February 25, 26—Woodville District J.C. February 26, 28—Te Aroha J.C.

'Although • numerically the acceptances ■lor the' New Plymouth Meeting to-morrow are rather on the small side, the quality atones somewhat, and' the racing should jbe .first-class. Auckland stables usually patronise this fixture fairly freely, but this ye.fr; their numbers are very few, but there .trur.be a sufficiency of visitors to make Jhe meeting fairly representative. With seven acceptors in the Taranaki Cup, and three from E. George's stable, It, looks as if there will be only six runJiers at most. Te Monanui on his home itrack, with 9.9, and Income and Piuthair light up alongside him, should take all -Kinds-of beating.- Town Bank's hope will be if it rains, an unlikely contingency at.present. Mint Leaf probably will start Mi the hack event.; Opa (7.7) may be." Te .Monanui s strongest opponent, for this geldmg is • a good galloper when in form, and he has _■ done; well recently. Eoyal Mint may be a possibility as an outsider, Jrat. one can. hardly go past Te Monanui. First Acre and Benzora may dispute favouritism in the Flying Handicap. Both lave winning form, First Acre being a hardy, handy, arid consistent galloper. Gaillard cannot be ; trusted, but Pouma at 7.11 is entitled to respect. ■ Oration .(7.10) runs some good races, and it has jo be said he will be galloping on his owii track. -Nadarino has a luxurious impost at 7-2- He has been disappointing lately, but uhe performed up to liia real best he would take all kinds of beating. Tip Tree ■Js;a. smart promoted hack. Form.points ,to Benzora and First Acre. . Passin' Through will hardly be considered in-the Waitara Hurdles. Pendennis jras a winner at Hawera, and Rehutai may be improved by her racing there. Ardath Was a : surprise'winner at Foxtori, arid Take Take at Hawera. Mountain Bell is a speedy oartomer for a mile and a half over hurdles, when right. Pendennis and Rehutai should do best. , Although Melissa, Baby Bun, and Miss £at. can all go very fast for five furlongs, Silver-Mine's second to Limited at Trentham, was of. unquestionable merit and S?- ?:• Hekn is not as good as many thought.^ Silver Mine and Melissa may Uphold the two-year-old honour. . If started, nb doubt Mint Leaf will be favourite for the Okato Hack Handicap attend appears to be well placed, and Closeare is not. overburdened .Patiently handled, The Lamb hold his/own in the Mimi; Highweight. Bonhomme beat him at^Haweraj, but: appeaf«£„';?A■ £ c IUrHl UrH t-2 do. Bo- The distance should beat Lady Bentmck, and Vivo looks the best of the 8 stone, brigade. One comes back ioThe^ Lamb and Bonhomme. Tit^rf, W? -^ hf-° ks 1S ,?"S a Sed in the Timaru Hack-Handicap. The race looks be Bm;u-ne aUl a likely tri° may .be iJiUikms, Manly, and Sovena. • li&f 0™'^?!" a «J? an=e to redeem himself m the\Moturoa Hack race.. Erincln7iloXst nyandeV are * *™ **° C,l°Ut^ '^ landi^°^ have the^Dunedin Cup ; meeting to;,.themselves. A round dozen.have been>frin the Dunedi^Cup to U decided -to-morrow, and North Islanders know plenty concerning the four footfall, Rapier, and Centrepiece. Count wT i \ IOIV la* Wingatui" but he wM lOst Ki° hl3 y^7^est t°-"how up with JJJst : He won y|sjst£ year with 9.8 from Overdrawn 7.0, but the field this year a™. W ■J&fy&»:;Js&*> ■ and may be 'the N«nld^ e t , m ft c feme lin= ;at the end! Neneof the appeal. North Island whUe W-f " Rapler Centrepiece, wnue bet Sail is a sturdy mare. J»v T£ fr if a*'all Patiently handled, way hold his own in the Publicans' Ha£ d!.c,fP-:^f ram .which has fallen lately will_be all-in favour of: Comic Song. CW I^^^ Silver .Coot has a 101b* penalty in the Champagne Stakes, and Jericho and Arrowy both penalties;of ,51b. In the spring Ark Eoyal looked like turning out a K ood staying two-year-old, and he bhas escaped •Penalty. He may trouble Jericho most ln the minor races horses who- appealed! paced arer Guncase, Eri Eoute; Master Clarence Princess Mafalda; .Thorn<Lf e > G°W Mint; Spe.an. Bridge; Chickwheat, John Bradbury. Mr -W; J. Jorgensen. has-decided to retire from ..racing, and all his horses in training,..,including Tanadees and Laughing Prince, will be offered for sale at irentham'inext month. Theresa likelihood of W. J. Donovan taking the imported colt Greengrocer to bydneym .the autumn. • . .*•' J.,;Mason is treating Eulalie, Deli-, cious, and Lucinda to.a holiday. Agrion is being .kept up to.the. collar, and will compete .m the Middle Park Plate at Biccarton:iie?t week. Last;.Ti,;ought,; by,. Expect/ is ,the. latest < addition to the string controlled by F. W illis. He will be raced over hurdles in the autnipn. wie^° d paid up for at .Taranaki because Mrs. M- V ±-?.^f-.??e.w's of their capabilities did not comcideu?ith those of the- handieapper. Commendation is being kept moving at Napier .Park, and will contest the St' ■ke!F elY at Tl'entllam next month. + ,A- had a leg crushed .against the rails .while riding exercise at Hawera and will not be able to fulm his-engagements at Taranaki this

D.. J., .Jarvis, a diminutive apprentice turning the scale at, about five stone, rod.' Vuinette,to victory in the Wairoa F)yin<' Handicap -at Te Kuiti on Monday. It wal the boy s f ;fourth ride and his first win -Mr.-.'Spencer, Gollan, formerly of MaBgatarata, Waipukurau, is revisiting th». Dominion. In his younger 'days he was an accomplished amateur rider arid the owner:;of-a number of good winners, indudirig Tirailloor, Tirant d'Eau. Tie' possible, and Norton, and others of-lesser calibre. In his colours, Moifaa won the Vrrand: National. Steeplechase at Aintree •j i ■ Cameron. °f Masterton, has decided to give up. racing for a time.-and J^adykiller arid others he owns have been thrown out of work. _Kapu"na got into a wire fence after the Tapanui Meeting last week, and injured "J^n's^gs. \He:is an unlikely starter «t Wmgatui this week. • :M8^ n S Post has been ■ reepmmissioned.after a spell and will probably be a competitor at the Gore Summer Meeting. i±. R. Russell has returned from Sydney with-Siaosi;;.Mount Marta, and Berinthia. It is understood that the trio will in future be trained at Te Awamutu. Mr. W. E. Kemball has had the 1 misfortune to lose two of his,brood mares jri Bonetter and Misnanna, the latter the dam of the consistent Hynanna, who has .won nearly £2000 in stakes this season. Birkenella is now an inmate of D. MAuley's stable, Mr.'F. A. Jensen havang disposed of him to the Trentham meiitor. ......

The. two-year-old Starflight is still en joying a rest in the paddock. He will be taken up again when G. Murray-Aynsley returns from Dunedin. H. Nurse, of Riccarton, lias added two youngsters to; his team, one being by Greyspear from Sweet Smile and the other by Gay Lad from Madama. Both are being broken in and will be seen out on the training tracks in due course. The Pimlieo Futurity, one of America's rich two-year-old races, is run at a mile, but there is a move to make it eight and a half furlongs. Owners have been circularised oh the subject, and one of prominence, W. S. Kilner, has replied strongly opposing the proposal. He said: I am not in favour of running any of toy two-year-olds a mile and » sixteenth ffhere is. too much racing oj fw<MTCar.oldfl

in America now. for the good of the breed, and the distance of- the Pimlico Futurity should be shortened rather than increased. A mile race is too severe a test for any good two-year-old. It certainly eliminates any goodness in a filly from her three-year-old form, and cannot help but have a disastrous effect on the future of any two-year-old colt. With big stakes at Saratoga in August, big stakes around New York in September, big stakes in the West in the.fall, and big stakes in Maryland in the fall, there is too much two-year-old racing, and any horseman who has the good of the horse and his future form in iriind would say so. Some two-year-olds are raced in the winter, spring, summer, and fall. Is it any wonder .that;, there are so few good three, four, and; five-year-olds in this country?" When S. Donoghue rode the Maharaja of Eajpipla's Labadens in a selling hurdle at Lingfield on 12th ■ December, it was his first appearance over jumps for 14 years, his previous;, one being on a winner, at Birmingham. V Labadens, who started a. 6' to 4 favourite, was one of the two leaders at the straight entrance, but only : firi : ished fourth. On the flat, Donoghue rides very short, but it was noticeable he had dropped his leathers for hurdling. In England, there is no hurdle rider -who rides shorter than G. Duller, whose leathers wouIS seem ehor.t even for flat racing. However, Duller gets very few falls, and his winning percentage each season is high. : ■■-■'-■ ;■■ ■■'. :