SYDNEY TURF NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 11

SYDNEY TURF NOTES

SIDELIGHTS. ON ROSEHILL

(From "Vedette.")

SYDNEY,'IBth March

The -liosehill Meeting 'on"-Saturday saw a quickening of interest in racing, due to the presence of a number.of bet-ter-class horses being produced. The next two' Saturdays, a.tßosehill again and at ■Warwick Farm, will -be of increasing' importance, as tho' racing "Vvill lead up still further to the A.J.C. -Meeting at Ran divide. The principal race on Saturday was a most peculiar affair. It was "won by Gemlight, who had been sold during the week, subsequent to his dismal failure at Ha-wkesbury. Gemlight set a slow pace in front, and nothing appeared to want to go with him. His success was the cause of a- decided demonstration. Not only was he singled- out, but some of those who finished behind him. were accorded some caustic comment. Gemlight's form1 was certainly a decided improvement on his showing in a much weaker field a wook earlier, and one stentorian voice was justified in its query, "Who keeps this game going?" The previous owner of Gemlight contemplated sending him back to New Zealand, but a. new owner was found. Yet, strangely enough, despite the change of ownership, Gemlight still carried his original colours. CHIDES BEST TO DATE. Chide at forlorn odds carried 9.5 into second place behind Gemlight. This was easily his-best effort in Australia, and as a result he has firmed for the Sydney Cup. Opposite the Legcr, or about a furlong from home, he looked like beating Gemlight, but failed by a length. The race will improve him considerably. - '.. / : The imported horse John Buchan was a hot favourite, but failed completely to show any real form. He was certainly ridden a bad race by D. Munro, -who seemed unconscious of the dawdling pace set. It is just possible, however, that John Buchan is not too reliable, and he is a type of horse to get jockeys into disfavour. EX-NEW ZEALANDEB. WINS. Mr. R J. Watt, whoso colours were well known on New Zealand courses a few years ago, won the- Maiden Handicap at Hoschill with Laay Doris,, a four-year-olcl filly by his imported Tracery horse Doric. Doric also was represented by'a winner at Caulficld in Aliman, and a pony winner at Kensington on Saturday inßunyarra. But for being squeezed at the finish Aussie's stablemate Tfevallion might have beaten Tinino in the first division of the open sprint. Ticino, who won a fortnight earlier at Bosehill, just scored from Trevallion, who was Aussie's mate on a holiday recently in New Zealand, High Disdain, Ring Boy, and Croix dv Sud (late Covent, Garden) were starters in this race, 'but were beaten out of a place. High Disdain was galloped on, and pulled up lame. LIKELY JUVENILE. G. Price produced Vertigern's brother Kanchero in Hie Juvenile Stakes.after an absence since one run in the- Breeders' Plate in the spring. Under the circumstances, lianchcro ran a good race, for ho was under the disadvantage of inexperience. Something better can be expected of him before long. There was a bad smash in the concluding event, three horses falling,-but the jockeys all escaped serious injury. Peculiarly enough, the field was well into the straight, and there was no obvious sign -of malpractice. E. Beynolds, rider of Cronulla, who fell -first when going back from the lead, was galloped over by nearly all the field, nis escape from moro than, slight leg and arm injuries was miraculous.