NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 110, 12 May 1927, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BY "VEDE7ME.")

The Hawera Meeting will be concluded ©n Saturday. The fields will be reviewed uL y>«Jate sporting column of to-morrow night's "Post."

Nominations for the Otaki-Maori Meeting close to-morrow at 8 p.m.

Horses who "win at Hawera or "Wanganui who are engaged in the Great Northerns or the Cornwall Handicap are liable to rehandicap. G. New has made a good recovery from his recent illness, and was out on the track at Awapuni on Tuesday morning. During his absence E. T. Yuille has had charge of his horses, and he took Diogenes and Royal Land to the Hawera Meeting Star Shell is to be blistered and turned out for a spell. Fresco continues to race disappointingly. He registered several attractive performances last autumn, but, following on a spell; he has not shown anything like his old form this season. His Amberley Cup effort was poor and he seems to be on the down grade. The Harp is very well at present, and but for bad luck at a critical part of the race he might have gone close to winning the Amberley Cup. He should soon credit his owner with another stake. booster and Peho, two members of J. W. Jennings s Riccarton team, were among the ■ acceptors for the Amberley Racing Club's Meeting on Saturday, but they did not put in an appearance. They have raced well lately, and now they will have a spell until it is time to get them ready for spring engagements. Details to hand by mail show that without doubt wasting contributed largely if not entirely to the death in England of the American jockey George Archibald. He had ridden in live races at Newmarket and was preparing for the sixth when he took suddenly ill. The doctor was summoned and Archibald was taken home in a motor-car, but his condition became rapidly worse, and he died twenty minutes after arriving home. He rode at 7.13, lib overweight, during the afternoon, and had been living more or less in Turkish baths. Archibald, who was 39, came to England mi 1922 to ride as first jockey for Gilpin's Clarehaven stable at Newmarket, for which in that year he rode Lord Queensborough's. St. Louis to victory in the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes and Town Guard, one of the best two-year-olds, in all his races that Reason. He also rode the colt when it started favourite and finished unplaced in the Derby o£ 1923. In 1924 he rode the King's colt Kunnymede in the famous July Stakes, and won the race. When, not long afterwards, he won the Goodwood; Stakes for the King on London Cry, Iheir Majesties sent for and congratulated him on his success. Archibald was born.at Oaklands, near San Francisco, in 1890. He had experience of riding in America, Germany, Austria, Spain, and England, and in all except England he topped the list of winning jockeys. By winning the Wagga Cup under the heavy impost of 10.5 the Magpie gelding Amounis once again demonstrated his brilliancy, for he compassed the mile and a-quarter. attached to the race in question in 2min ssec. The Wagga Cup, it may be remarked, is no small event in the circuit of racing promoted in the State of c th Wales, f°r it carries a stake of. £1000, in addition to a gold cup of the value of 100 guineas, states an exchange. Amounis has proved a profitable speculation to the three men who have been identified with him at respective periods since he went up to auction asa yearling at Randwick in the autumn of 1824, when he was bought by the Sydney tramer, Mr J. W. Cook, for 300 guineas. ±he % son of Magpie registered four successive victories at three years old for nis tramer, and his form was held to be so impressive that Mr. A. 1\ Wade was encouraged to buy him at 3000 guineas in the hope that he would win the A.J.C. ■Derbj'. Amounis, however, failed to stay and, aiter registering wins in a brace of handicaps, he was sent up to auction in April, 1926, when he was bought by another Sydney owner, Mr. W. Pearson, at 1800-guineas. Developing brilliant torm at four years old, Aniouuis has proved a great bargain eveu at 1800 guineas, and,, as the value of the races-he has captured this season amounts to close on £8000, it does not admit of any question as. to who had the better of the deal a& between vendor and buyer when the gelding stood in the sale ring at Randwick twelve months back.

Telephones were installed at every fence in the Liverpood' Grand National Steeplechase so- that medical assistance could be summoned immediately in the case of accidents.

While the large majority of backers Jost over the success of Piastoon. in the Sydney Cup, there were a few good winners, says the A seaside medical man, who. has a profound appreciation of W. Kelso's virtues as a trainer, supported the Doncaster and Cup double Persuasion and Piastoon to win £10,000. Of course, that became valueless. On Cup Day, however, for the Flying and Cup he backed the same double again for a fanamount. Then, fearing that something might beat Piastoon into a minor place he invested £60 on the Queenslander on the tote, and this yielded him a profit of over £800. A fair city Hebe is going to. have a Piastoon bangle made to commemorate her luck over the horse. She had a double beginning with Don. Moon to.strike £400. Any doubts Bhe had about Piastoon's ability to win the Cup were shaken when she drew the horse iv a house sweep, and, finally, she reckoned that the writing on the wail was plain when he fell to her again in a second »weep. Some of her friends'took the office."

Sarchee, Mr. W. R. Kemball's goodioofcing Sarchedon two-year-old, is a halfbrother to Grecian Orator,, who was backed sensationally for the last Doncaster Handicap, and met with fatal injuries in the race.

Cresta Run, winner o£ the One Thousand Guineas, is a bay filly by Hurry On irom Bndgemount, by Bridge o£ Earn IT\ M°untoin Mint, by Spearmint from Adula, by Gallinule. She was bred by „Jur iGll es Loder> a«<l when two years old had six starts. She was unplaced in the Queen Mary Stakes at Ascot, a race won by Book Law; unplaced in the National Breeders' Produce Stakes; finished tv ti'V? 6 PS nce o£ Wales Flate; won the Highclere Nursery Handicap at Newbury; the Imperial Produce Stakes at cm I S* <?s, l??i'k;, and was out o£ a P'«ce in the Middle Park Stakes, won by Call Boy, a fancied Derby candidate. Book Law another bay filly by Buchan from Pop! ingaol, by Dark Ronald from Popinjay, by !£• «r" B2T' was bred by Lord Astw--6>he finished a dead-heat with Endowment for second, and was not raced much last season. Book Law won the Queen Mary Stakes, was unplaced in the National Breeders Stakes, and was third in the Moulton Stakes.at Newmarket, won by Applecross Endowment is a chestnut by Silvern from Enrichment, by Tracery (imp.) from Tillywhin, by Mimora from t «, yeve V by ,W! !d«ower. *nd was bred at the National stud. She won a Maiden Stakes at Newmarket, the October Nursery ut Newmarket, the Free" HandTcap on the same course, finished third at Doncaster m the Princess Mary Stakes and was twice out of a place. Archibald's name appears amongst those entered for the A.J.C. Hurdle Race to be run at Randwick on 6th June