JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 103, 28 October 1932, Page 4

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

.. Autopay -won the 'Stewards' as a three-year-old with 7.2, and'he ran seventh with 9.8 Mast year. : With 0.2 this year : his chance is not near so remote as isome are inclined to believe. Do' not forget hedrew the outside and-finished /-fourth! under top weight, 9.8, in. the A.J.C. Epsom at tt'e beginning of the month. ■ Kain again'settled'any chance of, fast woi-k at Riccarton-1 on 'Wednesday liiorning. The.;' course .:has .had' its . biggest dvenchifig1 for a lons time.: -It recovers very quickly, however.' \ The Auckland jockey/-H.-Jf. Wiggins, received a further inquiry from Australia laat week as- to whether he would ride Havering in the Melbourne Cup, but decided not to • accept the offer. Wiggins returned to Auckland from Wellington on. .Tuesday, and will be riding at the Auckland Spring Meeting. '• ,- ; Palermo was one of the last horses to ■ finish on both days of the Gore Meeting , last week-end, and he can be written out as a Stewards' prospect on this^form.. FailWeather raced well below form each day, : but-probably the. track, troubled him', and >.' improvement-at'Ricearton ; would be eoiri- . pre.hensible in,his case. . A".,: meeting1 of stewards .of the Xorth Canterbury; Racing :<Chib. was held on t . Tuesday/afternoon" to the posiv tion in regard to the meeting which was ). to have been held on Monday. 2sTo deq cision was arrived at, and a furtlier meota iiig-of the steward's was to have been held to-daj'. -."'■-. ' • c F. JFoster, wlipse term of disqualification y expired tHis..month, has received advice , that he has,; been granted a jockey's a licence, states an Auckland report. Foster, X who is living at Pukekohe at present, will r resume riding at the Ellerslie! Spring c lleeting. - .■'.'■' . ' , If all goes well with Rocket and Drum , Fire in the next ten days, both will be ;- runners in the New Zealand Derby. B, , H. Morris will have the mount on Drum t Fire. ..L. G.. Morj-ii will ride Rocket, and; - .he wiit also be dn:Fleetilig G-lahce in the New Zealand Oaks. "•' ' ■ ;'; Schizanthus, a three-year-old filly by Scherzo (the sire of Bambury) from the imported grey.mare, Grey Eagle, I>3' Grey Fox 11, made her appearance in a division of the Bardowie Handicap at Cam- . bridge on Monday. She .showed a great dash of pace' till the straight, but was then done with. This filly's sire was a fine sprinter in England, and she gives ) every indication of also turning- out , fneedy. She is trained by 'A. E. Cos at Te Arohu.