MOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 7

MOTES AND COMMENTS

'("BY VEDETTE.")

RACING FIXTURES.

December 17—Walpa K.O. • December 26, 27—Dunedln I.C -December 26—WalpuKurauJ.C. ' December 26. 27—Westland K.C. December 26. 2T—Tarauakl J.iQ. December 26, 27. 29—ManawstU H:C. -■ December 26.28, Januarys, 3—Auckland B.O'December 30,31, January 2—Greymouth J.C. December 81, January 2—Walrarapa B.C.

Reminders. Acceptances for the first day -of the Manawatu Meeting close to-night, at 9 , JD'clock. : „:.-"-T,^; ' Acceptances for l ,.ft.^; riLiJicklana Gup and • Railway HandieapjS'fiial. jiayments for,the Derby. Koxai^pkesA:*qal Stakes, vand \,Queens Pl4tej\.:aud acceptances for the .. inmor evenis2fr£thc" firit day; at Ellerslie are due to-n^^^iJjvSiio'clock., ::;i:; : 'C. .....: To-morrow At te:^i^mutUi: V; ;:^,; -" ■ r The Waipa Meeting to-morrow should be a .well-attended fixture, and the /facing on the TeAwamutu course should giveigood line, on events to be decided at Ellerslie. The first race is timed for 11.45 a.m. Winners at this meeting are liable to be relandicapped if they are engaged at Ellerslie. • '■ ;■ ■ ' ' .v.?. 1.- ■t.vx..'-...-.

Lord Star possibly will" not be a runner in .the Pirongia^fiurdlesv A; pair in the middle of the handicapil;whovappeal are Highflown and Uralla. Some of this field are novice jumpers. • ■ Nearly all the acceptors in the Kihikihi Handicap are engaged later in the day. If Flying Juliet is in anything like her best form she should account for all those at the top of the handicap. King Smock is nicely placed a{ 8.4, and New Moou and Archeen are both possibilities at the freights. A large number of those engaged in the Waipa T?late are unknown quantities, so that a surprise is likely in this event. Quite a good percentage have no form in public at all. The two-year-old Mauriaena, ' with her light weight, has only to run up - to the form of her fourths each day at ' Takapuna to show up very well. The two top-weights in the Te Awamutu Cup do not appeal. Of tne next four on the. list. King Lv, Delightment, Pegaway, and Mosaic, the match between the two first *rill be interesting. At-the same time Pegaway at his best should beat the lot. Fhaols, Eden Hall, anil .'.Transformer •hould all run decent races, while of the light weights nothing appeals more than Papatu. A likely trio may ; be' King Lv, J*haola, and Papatu. '•'■[■<: -■"..■- • -• Probably the smallest field'of"the'day )R-ill contest the Paterangi (Handicap.. Wenday and War Officer may do West. . A sufficient number of scratchings have Reduced the Orakau Hack Handicap to one etrai^ht-out event. There are three relandicapped horses in the field for wins •t Taumarunui in High Eose^Abbey Day, »nd Flitter. The top-weight, Waltzer; does not appear to be set an impossible task, •rid next to him Flitter may do best. . A.very smart field of sprinters is due to contest the Flying Handicap. No doubt Paganelli, if he goes to the post, will be (■■good favourite, but Nancy Lee will have friends for all 'her 9.2, for this solid mare W; very well at present. ..-■•■■ As practically every horse in_the Ohaupo Handicap is engaged earlier in the day, backers on the spot will have plenty of form to guide them. On the weights as (they, stand now, Day Guard, King Smock, •nd New Moon may do best. . Webster's Teani. Although he has not met with any outstanding success since his arrival in Australia, the New Zealand trainer ,'A. D. • .Webster has managed to- pay., expenses ■with the teani'.he has in work at Canterbury.Park. Heiias won races on registered courses with--Asleep, First Acre, and eTazz Baby, and at "Ascot-he was successfully represented by v Moutoa Wonder in the second division of.the 14.1 Handicap, Bays the "Sun." Moutoa Wonder was.a •trong tip early, but when he eased after come nice bets had been laid at good price. about him it wasthe_signal.for some of the "hard heads" to"broadcast their supposed Knowledge that. Moutoa Wonder "was not jh the race." This time, however, their information was incorrect, and the New Zealander defeated the unlucky Master Carwyne in one of the closest finishes of the afternoon. . >;£.,..-.,.,,•;.•'■

Preponderance of Successi by, Fillies.; Quite in accord with;file.'spirit of the times, when members-.of :the, gentler sex are taking such a prominent 'iJart ihVßpbvt, fillies distinguished themselves in a remarkable way at the last "Warwick Farm Meeting- in Sydney. They won all three of the youngsters' races, and, more than that, all nine of the places were occupied by them. So far this season ip Sydney there ■kave been fifteen ra pes for mixed juvenils,. of nine have been won by fillies, •nd they have filled no fewer than thirty or the forty-five places. • These successes "c out of all proportion to the number pi .fillies at the last Sydney Easter yearling sales, where they numbered 374, compared with 448 colts and geldings; ..It is possible that owing to some- climatic injßuence.when the foals were being reared the nllies are unusually good this year. Still Interested. A particularly, interested visitor to a recent meeting at Warwick Farm was the CJuef, Justice of. Australia, Sir Adrian Jtnox, formerly chairman of the A.J.C. Sir Adrian still takes a keen interest in; racing, and was occasionally seen hovering i near the totalisator windows. One owner who would have dearly loved to be able to^suggest a "good thing" is Mr. "Baron" '■7J&.Ahi *n$ h$ T to g^e pleasure to his StW^ C^ I! I- JH stlr naming horses after him Adrian's March, who finished third in the last Canonbury Stakes, is one

Ilka Retired. ■ - ' _Ilka; ( who successfully carried Mr. J. A Taylor S : colours in New Zealand, and emce her sale has won nine races oh the pony tracks in Sydney, is to be retired to the stud. She is to be mated with Saltash, •? n Jnni • a?P ns two-year-olds, Salzacb »nd Clarion Call, promise really well. Hastings Track Work.' ' .Heavy raiii fell just as operations Oil the ■.Jj; 31"1"? tra* commenced on Tuesday, Ba ys the Tribune," and although it might' have 5rn 5 H R S fal" aS the tim<* were con•iiw'j / nna?i eo:Was firiit out ' and-waa supposed to gallop a mile and a quarter feut^ the jockey, made a mistake witfi the £ OSk V 1" "Sfcfcnri ta the post he did go from was 2min 12'/4sec, or .about 8W under the correct distance* / » roughly he would have taken 2min losec -only -par, as he carried only seven stone. .Kaasay was galloped three furlongs ihe reverse way. from the three to the sS furlong post, taking 35 3-Ssec-a; brilliant S^T'm"-'-^ 15-8 Colt ou P^ent showing should win a race on the Auckland trip. Torquil, for a similar journey, took 35% sec-very fair for a hack. Getting the best of the start, Coot beat Ganymede' ever three-quarters of a mile in lminO&ec., Jne Hawk did slow work. On appearances he does not look a likely starter Here. . ■ . ' ■. .

, Royal Damon,- looking very well,: did

a couple of rounds at 'an easy pace. He is engaged in two races the opening day at Ellerslie, but the present intentions are to start him in the Railway.

Regarding In the Shade. is by no means certain that the three-year-old, In the Shade will compete at "Ellerslie on Boxing Day. The Australian Sun gelding is being prepared for -the Great Northern Derby,-to be run on the • third day of the meeting, and his, only start before the classic may be in the Summer Cup on the second day. In the Shade has raced consistently .this season, but has not yet gone bieyond a. mile, so that he has yet to prove whether he can stay. As a rule, he has been hanging on at the end of his races and might do as well over a middle distance as most of the three-year-olds, although he doeß not appear to be of the class of such a colt as Agrion. -... ■ '.