HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 61, 14 March 1927, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

(By "Vedette.")

Weights to be carried in the Challenge Stakes on.Thursday at Trentham are as follow:—Lysander 9.6, Star Area 9.3, Green Cloth 8.3, Gascony 7.12, Talisker 6.12, Damaris 6.9. Eory Mor did not earn a penalty in the Plunket tyirsery at Trentham because of winning the two-year-old event at Napier. Bennanee has no penalty in the First Highweight. . Count Cavour may still make the journey to Sydney, but he is to race first at the Wellington Meeting in the Trentham G,old Cup. On Saturday morning' at Eiccarton- he galloped a mile and a quarter in 2min 10 4-ssec.

Training gallops over a mile and a half are unusual nowadays, but that was the task allotted Footfall in'his, work last Saturday at Eiccafton, in re.-diness. for the Trentham Gold Cup. He had a mate in the middle of the gallop, but started and finished alone, running the full journey in 2mm 39 3-ssee. He is due to leave home to-morrow for Trentham, where he is engaged only oh the concluding day. ' According to J; H. Jefferd, Eapine has done'weir of late. With the tracks hard, the old Martian gelding has not been asked to do more than sprint a few furlongs. These have kept nis pipes open, and, being a gr«- --winded horse and a true: stayer, he should be little short- of his best on' Saturday, He will : be, the Gold Cup favourite at Trentham. ' . :.'•'.: ■ .- '