JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 104, 29 October 1932, Page 21

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Jayson's recent good behaviour in hurdling events has resulted in his name bein" removed from the schooling list, and he is now eligible to compete again on the Hilt. :

Yarramba, who won the iloonee Valley Gold Cup last Saturday, is trained by Stan Reid at Caulfield. This five-year-old son of Spearhead is expected to go a great race under 7.3« in next Tuesday's Melbourne Cup.

The abandonment of the North Canterbury and Banks Peninsula Meetings this week will leave a few Cup horses short of necessary racing. Those in meed of the runs included Concentrate, Ramo, anil Earthquake in particular.

No Stewards' Handicap candidate was among the acceptors for the abandoned Banks Peninsula Meeting. The sprinters have done all their necessary race preparation.

The late Mr. G. D. Greenwood's pair, Jaloux and Azalea, who still have a New Zealand Cup and Stewards' Handicap engagement respectively, have had only one run each to. date this season. They both started in the Winter Cup in August, but the bracket was not fancied, and they ran accordingly. They are to be sold by auction next Friday, and if they fulfil their next day's engagements it will be m new colours. :

The only possible runnels for next Saturday's New Zealand Cup who also contested the race last year are Spearful (winner last year), Gay Crest, (third), Jaloux (fourth). Red Racer (thirteenth) and Flower (fifteenth and last). Historic and Concentrate, besides Gay Crest and Jaloux, contested the race in previous years.

If there is one horse among this year's probable Stewards' field, who deserves some reward .for persistency it is Arrow Lad, who has contested the race for the last four years. Still, although he has not yet finished in the monelf, lie has usually won an important race op the later days of the meeting. Great Star, like Arrow Lad, has also had several tries at the Stewards, his tally of starts beinji; one less, for he lias been saddled up the last there years. Autopay has twice previously been stepped out in the race, winning two years ago, and Palermo has made one previous appearance in the race. The others will be having their first start in the race. Seven horses handicapped for the Apprentices Race at the C.J.C. Meeting next Saturday are not eligible to start. Now conditions for this event, made last year and continued this year, rule out a horse who has won a Taee of 6ix furlongs or under at the time of starting. The seven concerned are Late Jest, Craigavon, Eminent, Revision, Palantua, Tippling and Fleeting Glance. "Prince Foote was the best stayer I ever trained. If Peter Pan can prove himself to be in the same staying class as Prince Foote, he should win the Melbourne Cup by a street."—Frank McGratli, trainer of Peter Pan. '

Royal England, a five-year-old eeldin? by Little England, won the Hunters' Hurdles in Rood style at Cambridge last Monday. He was well back in the early stages, but moved up along the back the last time and, joining the leaders beforethe turn, outstayed them to win comfortably. He jumped well throughout and looks like beating better company.