ELLERSLIE NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 126, 1 June 1927, Page 7

ELLERSLIE NOTES

; (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") f :■■-'■ AUCKLAND, This Day. Heavy rain fell overnight and-the tracks were very heavy yesterday morning, when there was not a great deal doing. The best track, efforts were recorded by Haerera and King Emerald, both of whom went six furlongs in pleasing fashion. Bennanee strode along over a few furlongs and did his work uncommonly well, without going fast. There have been rumours to the effect that everything was not well with Kawini, but his owner, Mr. H. A: Swaffield, last evening said that the hoiße was quite all right..l ' Unless present intentions are altered Royal Form and Zircon will both run in. the Great Northerns. IT. Coleman will ride Rjjyal Form and W. H. Bowden will pilot Zircon. As the pair will be bracketed at tibjj totalisator the combination is sure to find a lot o£ favour in the Great Northern :: Hurdles. ' The hunter Just John has a useful api pearance, and he made friends by his good schooling effort with Enare. Just John is a six-year-old gelding by Chaminade from Belle-Boyne. He is therefore a halfbrother to ,that smart horse Whenuanui. He has been racing out of his class in his latest'engagements, but he should have possibilities among the hunters. There will be few better jumper;;, among the haek_ hurdlers competing ai the coming meeting than Enare, who is a dashing fencer. Enare does not stay too well, but , he has carried big weights and has notched a couple o£ seconds in his last two starts and should run well here. His 1 jumping ability should be a factor in his favour. Delightment has arrived in excellent order to keep his engagements at the coming meeting, and he went nicely over six furlongs without going really fast. This horse has run his best races in heavy ground, and he should find the conditions entirely to his liking this week. Delightment should have good prospects of .capturing a stake at the meeting. I Since, winning at Te Rapa about a months

ago, Archeno has gone on the; right way, and sprinted nicely with Sun Up on Monday. Archeno has been steadily on the improve for some time, and is likely to race prominently in her coining engagements. .- ■ .

The three-year-old King Emerald, who won his way out of the hack class in the autumn, has trained on satisfactorily, and has probably never been better than at present. The Nassau gelding is only engaged in one event at the coming meeting, and that is the Visitors' Handicap pn the, third day. As he can handle the Heavy going, and has been sprinting well, heniay have to be considered, nr- T 5• Cor, nwall Handicap candidate Royal Mint is a lazy worker, and was beaten over seven furlongs yesterday by Golden Krist, but was. going on at the finish. Royal J 1"1.1™ finishing fast in third position behind Civility and Rouex in the Empire Handicap at. Wanganui, and on that-form ne. must _begiven);a chance here. Like most of the progeny of Catmint, he revels m*h% neavy going. .twelve months ago.Danae registered a Dig surprise in winning the York Handicap at Ellerslierbut since then she has been a failure. There has been nothing special about her track doings since she arrived, but she has.been moving freely and. is m ; splendid 'condition. Danae makes a slight; noise when working, and tnis.is not encouragingj but she is very partial to the heavy going, and that should neipjierm her coming engagements. It is some time since Kendal showed any form, and he has not been doinc anything lately to cause his immediate prospects to be viewed wtih favour. The chestnut does not appear to be quite himself, and the fact that he bled one morning recently is nothing in his favour rider has yet been secured for Black Mint m the Cornwall Handicap, but there is every chance of G. Holland being hl?■-??•*. Those who saw Black Mint win;, the-Prince, of /Wales Handicap from .Uyility-at-Awapuni. are" giving him an exceUent chance in the Cornwall Handicap; .Black - Mint reached Ellerslie yesterday morning. • -..'. -.--,■■■■.