AUSTRALIAN FIXTURES.

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FIXTURES.

September 24—Hawkesbury (N.SW) September 24—Moonce Valley (Victoria). October I—Victoria Baclng Club. 1 Vctober 1, 3, 5, B—Australian Jockey Club <D«by Day. Metropolitan Day, • Craven "«w f latl D*y, and Randwick Plate Day). .„ October 8, 12, 15—Victoria Amateur Turf Club M (Cauifield Cup, last day). 2S 0S tt J 5—City Tatts. (Randwick). „.. October 23—Moonee Valley. October 2»,NoFember 1, 3. 5-Victoria Racing ..Club (Melbourne Cup Ist November).

Acceptances for the Manawatu Hunt iOieetmg. close on Monday next Handicaps for the Auckland, Otaki, and -tlawkes Bay. meetings are due on Tuesday There is a fantastic story going the rounds that 5000 guineas were asked in all seriousness for the pony two-year-old ■BiiCKer. ■_ The price. mentioned was' an obvious" joke to emphasise that Flicker .was not for sale at present. Countersign is going on well in her preparation, and her recent track doings suggest that she will soon be in her best racing form. She is a good mare to be associated with, being of a contented disposition and reserving her most serious efforts for race day. Centrepiece continues to galiop well in preparation for spring racing. He will probably make his first appearance for the season at Trentham next month, and a couple of races there should assist to get Jam to.his best form for the November jearmva. at Riccarton. - The three-year-old gelding Rotor, by Tractor from Aphaea, has been galloping J^jjood-style lately. He has t lot of Bpeed, and he shapes like being a very useful performer over short courses. me field for the Ashburton Handicap te"^- 1? Cl? dcs Footfal1 ' Ra Pier> *oyal Game, Chickwheat, and Beau Geste, who liavo engagements in the' New Zealand 2* S« I -? the- r,, £ UP candWates, .Satrap . SShe da? BGen 1U °ther GVent' .Previous to last Saturday "Cardigan" :• thought that Gothic had a chance of beat- . ing Limerick at a mile, but the Hill ,; Stakes result settled all ideas in regard ■ xo that. Discussing Limerick's: weight-for-age engagements at Randwick; the ; .Melbourne writer went on to say:—ln rei ? ar? to. other opponents for . Limerick, » it is fairly certain that. Pilliewinkie will J *>c a better horse at Flemington than at ji -.Kandwiek, as although he has not had a ,i race for a year, he is Retting, through a r eohd preparation, but the lack of racing , may tell. against him at Randwick. Lim- ; enck-proved so superior to Pantheon at - the ..Autumn Meeting that there is no V reason why he should not beat that horse 1, "gain,: and I am inclined to think that » Amounis will be his chief danger in the , Craen Plate, and that Spearfelt-provid- « ed,^c-f.,courße, % O'Neill can i give him ns :, much work as he would like—will be his ;; most dangerous opponent in' the Rand- :, wick Plate Unless Commendation im- . proves considerably, Limerick should have ; an easy task in the Spring Stakes, as ap- ■ parently Amounis is now to rim in the Er>- ' **a"d 7 lcaP;, His good form over a '■' ?„ Warwick Farm in the weißhMor■fW £\ 3S convinced h« connections - . I****- -T 6 may be easier than °PP°s- : rag Limerick at a mile and a half I ... cannot see any other horses at present ;; 3" fl Sydney likely to give any trouble in *ne. weight-for-a K e races unless the New * Zealand mare, Piuthair improves on heT t ; come form. ' ' ■