HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 76, 31 March 1931, Page 6

HERE AND THERE

This Week's Racing. • There will be no more racing this week 1 fill Saturday X when the Auckland, Feilding, Wairarapa, Beaumont, and Biverton Clubs open their Easter Meetings. Leaving' To-day. . Ttiecarton . trainer 11. Cults leaves Christchurch this evening with -Straightcourse arid Winsome Hind, who are to' race at the Wairarapa Meeting. Both horses are stated to be in first-cla&s order, and it is anticipated that they will not return empty-handed. The stable, it will be remembered, had a good run at Tauhcrcnikau at the New Year wi<h Straightcourse and Ball Dress. , Feilding Probable. Just an Idea is reported from Wanganui to be looking bright and well after his racing at Awapnni. lie has been paid up for in the ,C.J.C. Easter Handicap, but there is no certainty he will be taken south. He has only 7.0, but ho is not a boy's^horse, and'it may not be possible to obtain a suitable rider for him. His acceptance for Feilding indicates that he will rdo his racing there. An. Unreliable Horse?

' The imported horse John' Buehan has twice failed his connections recently, but he made amends by winning the Warwick Farm Autumn Cup on Saturday from a fair-.field. In the Rosehill February Handicap he was sent out a good favourite, but, after looking all over a winner a furlong from home, he showed a white feather when. tackled by the lightweight Truest, who worried him, out of the main place.yA fortnight later (14th March) he was again hot favourite in the Club Handicap at Rosehill, but failed completely to show any real form. He has the reputation of being unreliable, and his recent efforts'certainly confirm this opinion. His next ,race will probably be in the Sydney Cup, in which he has the handy weight of 7.12, the same as First Acre, whom he beat at level weights on .Saturday. Success Assured. -The victory of Movie Star, in the Fairfield Handicap, for two-year-olds, at War-' wick Farm on Saturday is the second win obtained .-by- the 'New Zealand trainer A. I). Webster since he arrived in New South Wales less than 1 three weeks ago, and the success of the .trip is now assured. First Acre, who notched the first ,Yin, was third again in his race (Autumn Cup) on Saturday, and -the other, member of the team (excluding the pony Enter), Hunt the- Slipper, was third in the Nursery Handicap at Rosehill the,day, that First Acre scored. Movie Star's next race will probably be on Saturday in the A.J.C. Sires' Produce Stakes, for which Hunt the Slipper has also been'paid up. First Acre has no engagement. till the Sydney Cup on Monday. Raelng Consistently. 1 Troilus has been racing consistently at Sydney meetings lately, having won the Rydalmere 'Handicap (nine furlongs) at Rosehill on 14th been third in the Autumn Handicap (one and a half miles) on 21st March,-, and second to John Buehan in the Warwick . Farm Autumn Cup last Saturday. With 7.8 in the Sydney Cup, Troilus is likely to be one of the best fancied of the lighter division. He is a five-year-old gelding by Redfern from the Malt King mare Etramalt, and he has already, won good races, including , the Canterbury Park Campsie Handicap, Hawkesbury Clarendon Handicap, and City Tattcrsall's Cup. It was only by a narrow margin that John Buehan led him past the post on Saturday, and he was well clear of the third horse, First Acre. _ . , At First Strike, 1 Havaspot, who was sent across to Sydney as a companion for Ammou Ea early in the month, and is now quartered in thei same stable, M. Poison's at Randwick, drew "oil at first strike when he. beat a useful field in the Cabramatta Handicap, one mife, at Warwick Farm on Saturday. He won easily, so that it would appear that most of the Australian handicappers are. not yet at their top autumn form. Havaspot is Australian-bred, being by Tippler (son of Polymelus) from the Brakespear mare No Belle, and he belongs to the same family as > produced Desert Gold. All his previous racing, however, has,been in New Zealand. He is not engaged in the Doncaster, but has been entered for the Vaucluse Handicap (first day), Tocal Handicap (second day), Champagne Stakes (third day), and Rous and Final Handicaps (final day) at the A.J.C. Easter Meeting. A Likely Pair.

Corinax and Rafflight are reported to be hitting out very freely in their work at Ellerslie, and are a likely pair to show up in their early engagements.' Rafflight still makes a noise when galloping, but this does not appear to affect him to any extent when racing. Corinax has done a fair amount of work recently, and though ho looks a bit above himself a few more solid gallops should see him nearly at his best again. JLc usually runs his best races at JCllerslie. but ho is now well up in tlio weights and is likely lo find it harder to win. ' Limerick's Froflrammc. |jato«t iwlvicc frum ]iiec;iifon in that Lima icU m.iy now cuutc&t, Lhc Sockburu

Handicap on the first day of the CJ.C. Meeting in preference to the Great Easteiy as the. race .promises to draw only a small, acceptance. Limerick would be better suited by a nine l'urlong course, especially over the.early part, of the , race, as he would bo at a disadvantage with the! speedy beginners in , the Easter. 'If''a; change in previous arrangements should be decided upon, A. E. Ellis will still bo: available to ride him. , ' ■■>. Also for Sockburn. J Spoon's trainer (Cr. IMiirray Aynsley)[. stated after the 'filly's gallop on Saturday that she would .not be a starter in the Great Easter next Monday, but would, contest: ttieSockburn Handicap,, nine fur-: longs, in which:she.has 8.0. -Murray Ayns-: ley does not, believe that she is quite up to::'the class represented in the, .Easter,, and considers that1 the Sockburn .would be- a better race for her. B. H- Morris j will probably ride-'her; and A.: Eastwood, who: had been ::,erigaged for. .'her;,in- tho: Easter;.;wiU'; ride- Charmeuse iriithat; race. ; Amorist ■Recovered. - ; ; * : ' Amorist Showed: signs of soreness re-cently,-.and for a, few.; days : Eiccarton trainer E. Longley did very, little with him. The trouble soon disappeared, however, and apparently it was not serious. He is how working well, and he should: cain sorue-more money very sbon,.'as he is ,more:fonrard than., some 'of ;the op-, ponents he will y'nieet inj, early1, hurdle: erigagemerits.■:■;,,;. 'v . .•:'>-•. :;' -. ~ '■'■;'■ Odds and Ends. ;,;':V. .:■ '■:..;:./ :-V-..-''-'- -:'., Acceptances for. first-day: events of: the Ganterbury Jopkey: Club's Autumn Meeting, and also final payments <for the Great AutumnV' andy Cliallenge .Stakes .:>(secolid •'day), close at.18 o'clock to-m'qiTow : evening.',.,.. _:'/. ;■'.'■ ■■■f;-^,-.'^.,. -V. \S.Vi: ■. .■'.'■;■ Treii'tham;: trainer G-. 'Jones leffcl:f6r.Ellerslie yesterday with-Lady. Pamji Spear ,Lad/.'artd Cape Gold:: :> !V \ ' Charmeuse, a Great Easter candidate at only one pound abbve the minimum, gained friends: by'an attractive half-mile -ih..49sec. up the/back of the Eiccarton course^ on Saturday.,: A. Eastwood's engagement to ride her lias made her firm additionally in ante-post discussions. . : : ' '■; .. .

Riccarton trainer E. Scoullar has recommissioiied the two-year-olds Irish Chiel'tain and Chief Light. They showed useful form early in the season, and they will 'now be got ready quietly for three-year-old engagements. ;

Lancer is going on steadily in his prcp.ii'alion at Riccarton. He will not be at his best for hurdle races at Easter, but if he trains on he will be "seen to advantage in impoLtdut jumping events in the winter. Onp of the latest additions to the juvenile brigade at Ellcrslic is a rising two-year-old by Humbug from Armadillo, by Hallowmas from Spain. This youngster is attached to E. C. Rae's stable and has only recently been broken in. ', The chief officials of the Racing Conference would welcome the amalgamation of the Hawkes Bay' Jockey Club and the Napier Park Racing Club, but from the remarks of a prominent official of one of the club's concerned,' comments v a northern writer, there is stated to be little chance of such taking" place. '

Receipt is acknowledged of the Easter edition of the New Zealand Turf Register (pocket edition), containing particulars of all running and training meetings from sth Deeeml^r, 1930', to 19th March. Copies arc now procurable.